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O- ELEGANS, iJc7i,6. /.— This most distinct plant was imported with a batch 

 of 0. cirrhosum, of which species it is doubtless a natural hybrid, resembling it 

 as it does not only in the shape of its flowers, but also in its habit of growth 

 and in its paniculate inflorescence. Its other parent is supposed to be 0. cris- 

 tatum. The lanceolate acuminate sepals and broader caudate petals are 

 yellowish white, and are marked with a number of dark chocolate spots and 

 blotches,, so as to become almost covered, the sepals especially so; the lip is 

 hastately triangular caudate, with two long serrated keels on the disk, pale 

 yellow at the base, white in front, having a large rich brown blotch in the 

 centre and one or two spots towards the apex ; the crest is deep yellow, the 

 cohimn white with chocolate markings. It flowers in May. This plant is well 

 flowered by M. Vincent, gardener to M. le Comte A. de Germiny, Gouville, France, 

 where we have seen it with large many-branched spikes. — Ecuador. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, iii. t. HI ; YeitcU's Man. Orcli. PL, i. p. 73. 



O. TLEGANTIUS, Bchh. f. — Believed to be a natural hybrid between 

 0. Pescatorei and 0. Lindhyanum. The late Professor Reichenbach described it 

 thus: — "The sepals and petals are smaller than those of a strong 0. Lindley- 

 anum, lanceolate acute, sulphur-coloured with brown marks, a single one on the 

 lateral sepals ; lip trifid, side laciniae rectangular in the middle, central lacinia 

 cuneate oblong apiculate, with a long callus extending from the disk between 

 the mid-lacinia, and with two diverging, retuse, emarginate shanks at the base 

 of the mid-lacinia ; the colour is the same as the sepals, as also is that of the 

 column" {Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1888, iii. p. 201). — Ocana, Z7. S. of 

 Colombia. 



O. EUASTRUM, Bchb. /.—A beautiful thing, allied to 0. Brassia, and 

 described as follows : — " The prevailing colour is white ; there are some mauve 

 spaces in long stripes on the sepals, and still more outside. A few spots, one 

 to five, are to be seen on the sepals ; they are cinnamon inside, mauve outside. 

 Petals simply white. The lip is quite peculiar and characteristic. It is rather 

 heart-shaped over its stalk, nearly semi-cirdular, toothletted outside. An abrupt 

 long lanceolate lacinia projects from its centre. The denticulate indurate 

 sessile lamellae, like those of 0. crispwm, stand at the base of the lip. They 

 are sepia-brown in colour. Three keels stand before the side, one conspicuously 

 bidentate, the central one simply acute and very small. Some brown small 

 spots are scattered over the disk, and the base of the anterior lacinia white ; 

 the disk around the callus is sulphur-coloured. The column has lobed wings, 

 is light yellowish- white, with a mauve back " (H. G-. Reichenbach, in Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, 1887, 3rd ser., ii. p. 71).-^Native country not stated. 



O. EUGENES, Veitch. — A magnificent plant, which first flowered in this 

 country in the collection of the Duke of Sutherland, at Trentham. It is a 

 magnificent evergreen plant, with bright green foliage ; the inflorescence is 

 arched, and many-flowered, producing a grand effect when the blossoms are 

 expanded. The flowers are 4 inches across, and of a bright showy and pleasing 

 colour ; the sepals and petals are of a pale yellow^, distinctly margined and 

 tipped with deep yellow, the centre and base of the petals white, both sepals 

 and petals being heavily blotched with chestnut-brown ; lip white with yellow 



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