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yellow. It blooms during mid- winter, lasting a very long time 

 in full beauty. One of the finest and largest varieties of this 

 plant I ever saw was flowered by Mr. Kemmery, gardener to 

 E. G. Wrigley, Esq., of Bury, Lancashire. Native of Mexico. 



0. roseum. — This very handsome plant I have only seen in 

 a small state, but even then it was a charming plant ; when, 

 however, it has been longer in cultivation, I have no hesitation 

 in saying it wiU be one of the most distinct and beautiful. Its 

 flowers are about an inch across, rosy-carmine, with the lip 

 not quite so bright. It produces from twelve to twenty flowers 

 on each spike during the winter months, and it remains in 

 full beauty for a considerable time. The cool-house suits it 

 best. Native of Ecuador. 



0. rubescens. — Another of the many cool Orchids for which 

 we are indebted to the late Mr. Skinner. A dwarf-growing 

 kind ; flowering in autumn ; the sepals and petals are blush, 

 spotted with crimson ; the lip is white and very pretty. It 

 is a native of Nicaragua. 



0. retusum. — This is not a magnificent large-flowered spe- 

 cies, but is well worth a place in a collection on account of the 

 profusion of flowers it produces during winter. It is a dwarf- 

 growing plant, producing a branching spike which bears up- 

 wards of a hundred flowers; sepals and petals orange-red, 

 tinged with yeUow ; Up yellow in some varieties, in others of 

 the same colour as the sepals and petals. Native of Ecuador. 



0. Schlieperianum. — This plant was confounded with O. In- 

 sleayi for a long time, and in growth it certainly resembles that 

 plant very much ; the flowers are, however, very distinct ; sepals 

 and petals soft light yellow, faintly blotched with a darker 

 yeUow ; lip same colour, somewhat small. It flowers towards 

 the end of summer, and not during the winter months. 



0. triumphans. — A magnificent and rare species, which 

 grows a foot high, with short thick pseudobulbs, and dark green 



