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much broader than in 0. naevium, has a bilamellate claw with a broad ovate 



acuminate crispy blade. It flowers in early spring. — New Grenada. 



Fig. — B&teml Mon. Odont., t. 28 ; Orchid Alhum, v. t. 222 ; HeioheiibaoMa, i. t. 24 ; 

 VcitcA's Man. Orch. PL, i. p. 14. 



O. BLANDUM ALBO-CUPREUM, O'JSrtere.— This variety when first exhibited 

 before the Royal Horticultural Society by Mr. C. Vuylsteke, of Loochristi, 

 Ghent, on March 14th, 1893, was thought to be a distinct species, but since 

 then it has been referred to 0. hlanduTn. "The segments of this variety are pale 

 primrose, barred and banded (not spotted) with copper-coloured markings, except 

 the tips, which are pale primrose. The labellum, instead of exhibiting the violet 

 markings seen in more or less quantity in the type, is entirely pure white, 

 except at the base, which is yellow, as in typical 0. blandwn" (T. O'Brien, in 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1893, xiii. p. 356). 



O. BLANDUM ROSSIANUM, Bchh. /.—A choice variety, having sepals and 

 petals spotted with brown, lip yellow at the base spotted with red, the upper part 

 spotted and streaked with light purple. Named in honour of H. F. Ross, Esq., 

 of Castagnole, Italy. 



O. BLUNTII.— See 0. crisptjm. 



O. BOWMANNI, Rclib.f. — One of the many forms of the variable 0. crispmn 

 which we first saw in 1880 in the collection of F. A. Philbrick, Esq., Q.C. The 

 sepals are white, almost wholly flushed with deep rose colour, and indistinctly 

 blotched with deep rose; the petals are white, slightly spotted with rose 

 towards the base, and the lip is distinct in shape, being broadly hastate, having 

 four or five reddish-brown spots, and a flne large yellow disk. — New Grenada. 



O. BRANDTII, Kriimlin. — ^A handsome form of obscure affinity, imported 

 with a batch of 0. Pescatorei, and purchased at one of the sales by Herr Brandt, 

 of Charlottenburg. The sepals are straw-yellow, spotted with maroon in the 

 basal half ; the petals also straw-yellow with a narrow band of maroon at the 

 base and a round spot of the same colour about the centre ; lip white spotted 

 with red. — New Grenada. 



Fia.—Gartenjllora, 1889, t. 1308. 



O. BREVIFOLIUM, Lmdl. — A very free-flowerihg and handsome species of 

 the coronariivm group. The pseudobulbs are ovate oblong compressed one-leaved, 

 the leaves ovate oblong, short ; the flowers are nearly or quite 2 inches across, 

 numerous, on an erect raceme, of a rich chestnut-brown with a narrow golden 

 border ; and the cuneate emarginate lip, which is shorter than the sepals, is of a 

 bright yellow, having a reddish furcate blotch at the base. It blooms in April 

 and May. This flowers more freely than 0. coronariwm, and should be cultivated 

 on that account. This plant is very successfully grown and flowered every 

 year by M. F. Massange de Louvrex, of Liege, Belgium. — Peruvian Andes. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, i. t. 27 ; VIll. Hort., 3rd ser., t. 170. 



O. CAMBRIDGEANUM, Hort. — This is one of the many natural hybrids, and 

 was exhibited by R. J. Measures, Esq., of Oamberwell. The flowers are large 

 and richly coloured ; the sepals being rich reddish-brown tipped with yellow ; 

 petals similar in colour, irregularly blotched or stained in the middle, the 



