564 orchid-growee's manual. 



in wliicli our hybrid also agrees; the wings, however, like the tip, are nearer to 

 0. Lindleyanum than to 0. triumphans, though respecting the sepals and petals 

 just the reverse may be said" (Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1891, x. p. 728). — 

 Wew Grenada. 



O. GRANDE, Llndl. — This species is well named grande, for it is indeed the 

 finest of the genus, and one of the most showy Orchids in cultivation ; it is a 

 grand old plant, a universal favourite, which no collection should lack. It has 



ovate-oblong compressed ancipitous pseudo- 

 bulbs, with a pair of broadly ovate striated 

 wavy leaves, and a two- to seven-flowered erect 

 scape springing from the base of the bulbs, 

 and bearing the very large gaily-coloured 

 flowers, which measure from 5 to 7 inches 

 across, and are developed during the autumn 

 months ; the sepals are oblong-lanceolate, 

 yellow, transversely blotched with irregular 

 bands of chestnut-red ; the petals are broader, 

 oblong, with a single obcordate spot of chest- 

 nut-red over the lower two-thirds, the rest 



ODONTOGLOSSUM GEANDB. ^^^^^ ^j^^^ T^^j^j^j. y^^^^ . ^hg Up ig rOUndish, 



(_ uo re uce .) emarginate, unguiculate, creamy-white, with a 



few concentric bands of chestnut-red in front of the disk, and dotted with 

 irregular-shaped pale reddish-brown spots around the edge. It remains in 

 perfection for three or four weeks, if the flowers are kept dry. The plant 

 should be grown in a pot. — Guatemala. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., t. 39.")5 ; Satem. Orch. Miw. et Gwat.. t. 24 ; Id., Moil. Odont., 

 t. 8 ; Flore des Scrres, t. 21 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., viii. p. 49, with tab. ; Ji'iminrix, Orch., 

 t. 13; AnnaUs de Gand, 1845, t. 37; Gartenflora, t. 270; OreMd Allmm, ii. t. 79; 

 Hartinger, Farad., i. t. 13; HooU. Flr.it Cent. Orcli. PI., t. 80; Lindenia, ii. t. 75; 

 Veitch's Man. Orch. PI., i. pp. 33 and 34 ; Reichcnbacliia, ii. t. 60. 



O. GRANDE MAGNIFICUM, WilliamB.—This variety in its habit of growth 

 resembles the type, but it bears sixteen flowers upon one scape, and these measure 

 7 inches in diameter, and have the most splendid and brilliant mai-kings ; the;lip 

 is also large in proportion. We saw this plant, which well deserves the name of 

 magnifiown, in the collection of the late T. Dawson, Esq. With it there were in 

 bloom from ninety to a hundred plants of 0. grande, forming a really beautiful 

 display. — Guatemala. 



O. GRANDE PALLIDUM— See 0. ScHLiErEuiANnjr. 



O. HALLII, lAndl. — A very charming and beautiful species belonging to the 

 0. luteo-purpureum section, but having flowers far superior and more beautiful 

 than those of any variety' of that species. The pseudobulbs are ovate acuminate 

 ancipitous, about 3 inches high ; the leaves ensiform, upwards of a foot long, and 

 2 inches broad, light green, and the scape many-flowered, produced from the 

 base of the bulbs; the flowers measure about 4 inches across, the sepals and 

 petals being ovate-lanceolate acuminate, buff-yellow, heavily blotched and the 

 petals barred near the base with purplish-brown ; and the large oblong acuminate 

 lip is white with a rich yellow throat streaked with orange and white, the surface 



