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ORCHID.-TGEOWER S MANUAL. 



of afcouli equal length, bearing eacTa one' flower, whiob has a &h6ft' cup-shaped 

 tube, formed by the united bases of the three broad ovate sepals, which arfe 

 yellow, .the dorsal one clouded with chestnut red inside, and 'th« lateral ones 

 minutely dotted ; the fleshy recurved deeply toothed hook-pointed lip, which is 

 dotted! over with red-brown, is a beautiful object when seen through a 

 magnifying glass. — Venezuela. 



FtG.— Xeraa Orch., i. t. 75, f . 2 ; PaxtOH, Fl. Gard., iii. p. 74, f. 267 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4921 ; 

 Woolward's Masd., iii. t. 30. 



M. WALLISII, flbrt. — A .very int,6resting plant, which has hitherto inmost 

 collections represented the grotesgfue but withal handsome M. Chimaera. The 

 plant has narrowly oblanceolatp acute leaves, narrowed to the base, 6 to 9 inches 

 high, and sheathed at the base. The flower scapes are shorter than the leaves, 

 decurved at the top, bracteate, each bearing a solitary flower, which measures 

 8 inches from tip to tip of the dorsal and lateral sepals, and are of a yellowish 

 ochre colour, with deep piurplish red markings, the perianth tube shortly 

 oampanulatfe, the broadly obovate sepals densely fringed, clad on the interior 

 surface with long hairs, and terminating in long purple-red tails. Flowers 

 produced in summer. — New Grend^da. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 6152 { Bev. Jlpi-t., 1881, p. 130, with tab. ; Floral Mag., 2nd ser., 

 t. 149 ; Garek. Cliron., N.S., iii; p. 41, f. 5 (^Chimaera). 



M. WALLISII STUPENDA, iJc7t6./.— This is a remarkably fine variety, the 

 finest of the group yet seen, on account of the breadth of the triangular surface 

 of its sepals, and its rich colouring ; the tails are chocpWte-coloured, and the 

 same colour' occurs at the apex on the outside of the triangular part, mostly on 

 the upper sepal ; the colour of the interior is light sulphur, with some large 

 chocolate-coloured spots over the triangular parts,'the ,inner surface being hairy 

 and the margins fringed ; the disk around the internal organs is orange, and at . 

 each side of the p6tals staiids a white cushion-like body covered with numerous 

 scarlet spots. It blossoms .during the'winter months. It has been flowered by 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.^JVeio Grenada'. 



M. WENDLANDIANA, Hclih. f. — AmongsSt the many ^ems this genus produces, 

 'this is one ^of the choicest. The late Professor Eeichenbach described it as 

 follows : — " It forms dense masses of spathulate minutely bi-lobed leaves, which 

 are' surpassed by the slender peduncles, even longer than 3 inches, and bearing 

 'a single lovely tubular flower f inch in length ; the tails are equal to the free 

 triangular bodies ; the chin is a very short one, colour snow-white, with two or 

 three mauve lines outside, under the place of the lip ; petals white, lip white, 

 with an orange area before the apex, and very numerous very small point-like 

 dark purple spots; column white, with three longitu.dinal mauve stripes, one 

 on back, one on each angle. It is dedicated to Herr Oberhofgartner Hermann 

 •Wendlaud" (Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1887, i. p. 174). Blooms in winter.^ 

 U. S. of Colombia. 



M. XANTHIN A-, Bchb. f.^A curipijs little plant in t.he way ofM. Wage)ieriana, 



' but stronger in its growth^ and with ; larger and more a,ttraotive flowers ; the 



leaves are cuneate-oblong,.^nd ,t]tie, flowers with scarcely any, tube, the three 



