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of good constitution, and easily grown. It produces a long 

 branched spike. The flowers vary much in size and colour, 

 but they are mostly yellow, clouded with green, and spotted 

 with a lively brown. It is a native of New Grenada. 



0. grande. — A remai'kably handsome species from Gua- 

 temala ; produces its very large flowers on an upright spike 

 during the autumn. The flowers are mottled and striped with 

 brown and yellow, like the back of a tiger ; the lip white and 

 purple. It remains in perfection three or four weeks, if the 

 flowers are kept dry. This plant, which is one of the finest 

 of the genus, should be grown in a pot. 



O. grande magnificum. — In habit of growth this resembles 

 the preceding, but it bears sixteen flowers upon a spike, and 

 these have the most splendid and brilliant markings, and 

 measure seven inches in diameter ; lip also large in propor- 

 tion. This plant I saw in the collection of T. Dawson, Esq., 

 and it well deserves the name of magnijicitm. With it there 

 were in bloom fifty to a hundred plants of 0, grande, forming 

 a really beautiful display. 



O. Hallii. — A charming kind, belonging to the 0. luleo- 

 purpureum section, but it has a superior and more beautiful 

 flower than any variety of that species I ever saw. The pseudo- 

 bulbs are about three inches high ; leaves upwards of a foot 

 long, and two inches broad, light green ; spike produced from 

 the base of the bulbs, many-flowered ; flowers measuring about 

 four inches across ; sepals and petals buff', spotted and barred 

 with reddish brown; Up large, white, blotched with purplish 

 brown, bordered with white, and beautifully fringed; throat 

 rich yellow, streaked with orange and white. I saw this mag- 

 nificent variety in bloom with Mr. Penny, gardener to H. H. 

 Gibbs, Esq., Eegent's Park, under whose care the Odonto- 

 glossums thrive admirably. 



0. hastilabium. — A desirable Orchid from South America. 



