528 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
QO. CRISPUM (curled). Flowers 2 to 3 inches across, wavy, bright 
copper colour; centre of lip blotched with golden yellow; in many- 
flowered erect raceme. Intermediate house. Winter. Brazil. 
O. FLEXUOSUM (waved). Pseudo-bulbs flat. Flowers rather small, 
yellow, spotted with brown, in a branched panicle, 3 or 4 feet high. Of 
easy culture in the Intermediate house. An old favourite in gardens. 
Brazil. 
O. Forest (Forbes’). Flowers large, reddish brown, the sepals and 
petals broad, and margined with golden yellow; disk pale ; November. 
Intermediate house. Plate 242. 
O. KRAMERIANUM (Kramer’s). Similar to 0. Papilio, but with more 
yellow in the flowers; spring. Stove. Ecuador. 
O,. LANCEANUM (Lance’s). Leaves thick and leathery, spotted with 
reddish brown. Flowers large and fleshy, with a delicate vanilla-like 
fragrance, greenish yellow, barred and blotched with brown that more 
or less approaches to crimson in different individuals; lip violet and 
rose ; in many-flowered erect racemes. Stove. 
O. MACRANTHUM (large-flowered). Flowers 3 to 4 inches across, 
tough and leathery, golden-yellow, tinged with purple and sometimes 
streaked with crimson; the lip yellow, with purplish brown side-lobes 
and a white crest; panicle long, many-flowered; a superb Orchid: 
April to June. Intermediate house. Ecuador. 
QO. MARSHALLIANUM (Marshall’s). Similar to O. crispwm, which 1s 
often sold for it, but the flowers are yellow, with bars of red-brown 
on the sepals and petals; a magnificent species; May. Intermediate 
house. Brazil. 
. ORNITHORHYNCUM (bird’s-bill). Dwarf. Pseudo-bulbs 1 or 2 
inches high. Flowers small, fragrant, rose-purple, in many-flowered 
drooping panicles; October to February. Cool house. 
O. Papriio (butterfly). Butterfly Orchid. Pseudo-bulbs oval, flat ; 
leaves spotted and streaked with reddish brown. Scapes 2 feet or more 
long, bearing each one flower at a time; dorsal sepal and petals erect, 4 
inches long, red-brown petals wing-like ; lip heart-shaped, chestnut-red 
and yellow. The flower resembles a large butterfly. Should be grown 
on a block, with a sunny position in the stove. 
O. sPLENDIDUM (splendid). Pseudo-bulbs and leaves succulent, 
purple-brown when old. Flowers 2 inches across, green, heavily barred 
with brown; lip large, golden-yellow ; raceme 2 feet long. Intermediate 
house. Winter. 
O. TIGRINUM (tiger-marked). Pseudo-bulbs roundish, leaves a foot 
long. Scapes 2 to 3 feet long, branched, and bearing many fragrant 
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