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that the lip has a deep brown streak down the middle, and covers the column 

 like a hood. It blooms in July, lasting in bloom a couple of weeks or more. — 

 Mexico. 



Fig.— Bot. Beg., 1843, t. 33 ; Moore, 111. Orch. PI., Mormodcs, t. 3 : 

 Beige, 1889, p. 132 (plate). 



Bevue Hort. 



M. LUXATUM EBURNEUM, Bchh. /.—A very handsome variety, with large 

 sweet-scented creamy-white flowers, as many as twelve to fifteen being pro- 

 duced on a spike. This is a plant that should be in every collection, it being a 

 general favourite. It flowers in July and August. — Mexico. 



Stn. — M. WilUamsii. 



M. LUXATUM PUNCTATUM, Bchh. f.— A. distinct and beautiful variety, the 

 flowers of which are white, densely spotted with red on the inner sides of the 

 sepals and petals.— Mexico. 



M. MACRANTHUM.— See M. Colossus. 



M. OCANAE, Lind. et Bchb.f. — This old species war, discovered by Schlim in 

 the Province of Ocana, U. S. of Colombia, at 4—5,000 feet elevation. The racemes 

 !are six- to ten-flowered ; flowers about 2 inches in diameter, of a dark orange, 

 densely speckled and spotted with reddish-brown. — Ocana, U. 8. of Colomhia. 



Ym.—Gard. Cliron., n.s., 1879, xii. p. 816, f. 133, p. 817, f. 134 ; Bot. Mag., t. C496. 



Nl. PARDINUM, Bateman. — This very beautiful species is unfortunately 

 ■seldom seen in collections. The stems are terete and tapering, 3 to 6 inches 

 high, with several lanceolate membranaceovis leaves from their upper end, and 

 from their base the nodding flower scapes a foot or more in length, furnished 



MOEMODES PAHDINUM. 



with a crowded raceme ; the sepals and petals are ovate-lanceolate acuminate, 

 spreading at the base, but with their points all directed upwards sa as to be 

 almost connivent ; they, as well as the three-lobed lip, are bright yellow, spotted 



