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CASSELLS POPTJLAE GARDENING. 



in appearance to 0. ««!;«»;». Winter months. New leathery, oblong-lanceolate, acute, twice as long as 



Grenada. the pseudo-bulbs, pale green; scape twelve to 



0. cin-hosum. — This very beautiful species caused eighteen inches long, bearing ten to twenty flowers, 



quite a commotion in the Orchid world when first each upwards of three inches across; sepals and 



Odontoglossdm crisphm 



introduced, but speedily lost caste ; in fact it was too 

 accommodating, for it had been found in large 

 quantities, it travelled well, and soon sold for a very 

 low price, and thus in spite of its extreme beauty it 

 came to be despised ; nevertheless, it is deseri-ing of a 

 place in the choicest collection. It is a free-growing 

 plant, with oblong compressed pseudo-bulbs, smooth, 

 about three inches high and light green; 



petals somewhat lanceolate, the latter broader, all 

 being lengthened out into slender taU-like points, 

 creamy - white, profusely spotted with reddish- 

 brown; in some forms these spots are a deep 

 crimson-maroon; lip broad at the base, where it 

 is yellow, ornamented with radiating lines of 

 reddish-orange; the apex lengthened out Uke the 

 petals, and the same colour. It flowers at various 



