560 orchid-grower's manual. 



O. DICRANOPHORUM, Mclib. f. — This is believed to be another natural 

 hybrid, perhaps between 0. triumphans and O. Lindleycmum. " The flowers are 

 in a lax raceme ; the flower is equal to that of a good 0. iriumphans, yet, as 

 already stated, all the parts are narrower ; sepals linear, ligulate, acute, narrow, 

 light yellow, with two large brown areas ; petals broader at the base, narrower 

 at the acuminate apex, with one brown area in the middle, and some brown 

 spots at the base ; lip of the lightest yellow, unguiculate, unguis partly adnata 

 to the column, then ■ oblongo-elliptic till the middle, and finally suddenly 

 contracted into a linear acute yellow mid-lobe, with a brown area in the 

 middle ; from base to centre projects a single broad, depressed callosity, 

 extending into two free, ancipitous, thickish lamellae,which, with the superior 

 callus, give the aspect of an old-fashioned two-pronged fork, whence the name " 

 (H. G. Eeiohenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1888, iii. p. 330). — New 

 Grenada. 



O. DORMANNIANUM, Bchh. /.—A pretty little plant in the way of 0. naevium. 

 The pseudobulbs are small elliptic blunt two-edged and rugose, the leaves short 

 narrow linear-lanceolate, and the stellate flowers in racemes ; the sepals and 

 petals are white or whitish spotted all over with reddish-brown, and the lip is 

 white with a larger reddish blotch on the anterior part ; the crest is white with 

 two yellow areas on either side. It flowers in January. — U. S. of Golombia. 



O. EDITHIAE, Warner. — A very distinct and beautiful plant of the 0. criapum 

 type, having flowers about the size of those of a large 0. Andersonianum. The 

 pseudobulbs are roundish or ovate compressed, the leaves oblong ligulate, and 

 the scape bears a raceme of flowers, iii which the slightly wavy sepals and petals 

 are flushed with rose, marked by a few large transverse blotches of bright 

 chestnut-red, and broadly margined with yellow; the petals have a white flame 

 up the centre, and the chestnut spots are smaller, those towards the base con- 

 fluent into irregular broken lines ; the lip is somewhat hastate, deep yellow at 

 the base, where there are about four longitudinal red lines, and a fringe of 

 smaller transverse streaks on each side, the centre having two or three chestnut 

 brown blotches, and the wavy margin and front portion pale primrose. It 

 flowers in the spring. — U. 8. of Golombia. 



'Fig.— Warnor, Sel. Orcli. PL, iii. t. 25. 



O. EDWARDII, Bclib. f. — A species of great merit, and one that should be 

 grown by everyone on account of its distinctness of colour and the delicious 

 ])erfume of its flowers. It is a stout-growing plant, producing large pear- 

 .shaped pseudobulbs of a dark green colour. The flowers are produced in large 

 thyrsoid panicles, and although small individually are nevertheless very 

 effective on account of their being produced in profusion — literally by 

 hundreds; they have the sepals and petals bright violet-purple, the sepals 

 asperous on the outer surface, and the lip of the same colour with a bright 

 yellow base. The flowers of this species, which have a delicious perfume of 

 violets, are produced in February and March. Wc saw this plant well flowered 

 in the collection of Baron Sir J. H. W. Schroder, The Dell, Staines, under the 

 care of the gardener, Mr. Ballantine. — Ecuador. 



¥ia.—Jiiurn. of Ilort., 1887, xiv. p. 415, f. 72; rOrchidnphnr, 1391, p. 241; 

 ItcicUenhuchia, i. t, 26 ; Sot. Jfuff-, t. 6771 ; Orchid Album, x. t. 465, 



