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a tall ovate-lanceolate ribbed leaf on a longisb petiole ; the scape is erect, sbort, 

 robust, of a deep red colour, bearing six or eight concave flowers, which are 

 about 2 inches across, the sepals and petals similar, broadly obovate-obtuse 

 oucuUate, yellow and unspotted externally, golden yellow.-inside, - profusely 

 blotched with chocolate-purple, the lip rich yellow, approaching to orange, 

 freckled with crimson.^iVCTw Orenada. 



Fja.—Vin. Hort., 3rd ser., t. 71. 



H. ODORATISSINIA, .Tjindm. — A very handsome species of smaller stature 

 than H. Broeklehuratiaiia. It has ovate ribbed pseudobulbs, from which spring 

 the solitary long-petioled broadly lanceolate light green plaited leaves, the scape 

 rising from the base of the bulbs to the height of about '1| foot," aiid bearing 



•nodding flowers 3 inches across, the sepals and petals oblong acute, pale dull 

 purplish-red, closely and faintly marked by darker lines, and the lip white, with 

 its blunt sub-sagittate epichil stained with yellow, the horns of the hypochil being 



'of a dull red. The name 'is applied in allusion to the exquisite' arid ptiwfei-ful 



■odour of violets given ofi by the flowers. — U. S. of Colombia. 



¥IG.—Peseatiirca, t. 3 ; Cfard. Chron-.. N.S., 1885, xxiv. p. 777, f. 173 ; L' Orehidophile, 

 1887, p. 273 ; Lindenia, vii. t. 324- ; Veiteh's 3fan. Orch. PI., ix. p. 124. 



H. ODORATISSIMA ANTIOQUIENSIS, Linden.— A. very fine variety of the 

 preceding, with dark green pseudobulbs and leaves, and an erect scape bearing 

 many flowers ; the sepals are much broader than the petals, and like them deep 

 ■chestnut-brown, while the curious lip, which is Very long and somewhat sagittate, 

 is white, faintly tinged with pale yellow. It succeeds in a moderately cool 

 '.teinperature.^-^U. S. of Colombia. 



t'lG.—L'Ill: Ilort., 1870, p. 59, t. 12; Bevue 'HoH. Selgc, 16^0, p. 121, t.il; 

 'Ornhid Album, viL t. 316. 



H. ODORATISSIMA XANTHINA, BcU. f.—A yellow form of the type, in 

 -which the sepals and petals are orange, and the lip sulphur and white, with falcate 

 horns, arid a stipitate clavate callus. It is very distinct;. — U. '8. of Colombia. 



H. PICTA, Linden et Rclib. f. — A handsome and distinct plant, well worthy a 

 place even in select collections. It has tufted narrow ovoid furrowed pseudo- 

 bulbs, from each of which one elliptic-lanceolate plaited leaf with a long' slender 

 petiole grows up. The erect robust scape is radical, and including the raceme, 



' from 18 to 20 inches high, six- to ten-flowered, each flower being 3| inches across ; 

 the sepals oblong bluntish, deep cinnamon, unspotted in the upper half, and 

 closely tessellated with yellow in the lower half ; the petals are smaller and more 

 narrowed towards the base, but of a similar 'colour ; tUS lip has a sub-quadrate or 



' sub-trapeziform hypochil with two long ascending sphrs, yellow spotted with 

 crimson-purple, the epichil broadly hastate, with two short recurved horns, and 

 the deeply channelled apex recurved, pale yellow, marked closely with short 

 transverse red-purple bars'. — N&w Orenada, elevation 4,000 to 6,000 feet. 

 Fig.— ^ot. JIng., t. 6305. 



H. TIGRINA^ Linden. — A showy and exceedingly pretty species. The pseudo- 

 bulbs are about 2 inches long, somewhat ovate, supporting long-stalked dark 

 green erect plaited leaves, which are blunt at the end; the scape is about as 



