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teaves usually in pairs, ■with accessory ones sheathing the bulbs and evolving 

 from their axils the flower scape with its raceme of eight to ten flowers. The 

 flowers are stellate, 3 inches across, •with lanceolate acuminate sepals and 

 petals, which are primrose-yellow, with some large irregular blotches of chest- 

 nut brown; the lip is shorter, obovate oblong, apiculate, contracted in' the 

 middle, paler yellow, with a large squarish blotch of chestnut-red in the central 

 part, and a crest of two upcurved horns on the disk. This plant blooms during 

 the winter months. — New Qrenada. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 90 ; Xenia Orcli., ii. t. 192, fi. 1—3 ; Gard. Chron., 1872, 

 p. 1068, f. 251 ; L' OrcUdopUle, 1885, p. 133 (plate), f. 5 ; Gard. Chron., N.S., 1886, xxv. 

 p. 269, f. 50 ; Jteiehenbachia, 2ncl ser., 1. 1. 21. 



O. CORADINEI ALBIDULUM, Bchh. /.—This variety was first flowered by 

 R. Smith, Esq., of Brentham Park, Stirling. It differs in having the ground- 

 colour of the segments yellowish-white ; the base of the lip is light-sulphur. — 

 New Grenada. 



O. CORADINEI KINLESIDEANUM, JJctt. /.—A. distinct variety first flowered 

 in 1885 by the Eev. R. Kinleside, of Tunbridge Wells, an ardent admirer of 

 orchidaceous plants. In this variety the sepals and petals are white bordered 

 with yellow. 



O. CORDATUM, Lindl. — An old though very distinct and handsome species 

 of free-growing and free-blooming habit, and one therefore which deserves to 



be grown for its utility. It has oblong 

 obtuse compressed pseudobulbs, broadly 

 oblong acute leaves, and distichous 

 racemes of prettily spotted flowers on 

 scapes which issue from the axils of 

 accessory leaves, and grow about a foot 

 in height. The flowers are stellately 

 expanded, with lanceolate caudate acu- 

 minate sepals and shorter broader 

 petals, both yellow, the surface of the 

 sepals almost wholly covered by nu- 

 merous transverse oblong bars of bright 

 chestnut-brown, that of the petals with 

 roundish blotches of the same colour; 

 the lip is cordate acuminate, white with 

 a line of brown spots down the centre 

 and another round the margin, the apex 

 being wholly brown, the claw bearing 

 a bilobed fleshy appendage or crest. 

 There are many varieties of this species, 

 which requires to be grown in a pot in 

 peat. — Mexico ; Guatemala. 

 Fie. — Orc7iid Alb'um,iv.t. 186 ; Kiwwlcsand Westc, Floral Cab.,t. 100; Pcicatorfa, 

 ; Sot. Mag., t. 4878 (as maculatwrii) ; Batem. Second Cent. Orch . PL, t. 167 ; Id! 

 3Ion. Odont., t. 25 ; Gartenflora, t. 350 ; The Garden, 1885, xxvii. p. 46 ; Veitch's Muit 

 Orch. PI., 1. p. 21. r ; ■ 



Stn. — 0. Hoohsrianum. 



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