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ensiform leathery leaves, and at their base an erect scape bearing some eight or 

 ten flowers, each 3 inches across, the oblong slightly wavy, sepals and petals 

 being of a pale yellow, thickly transversely blotched with rich chestnut-brown ; 

 the lip is narrow obovate retuse, smaller than that of 0. grande, bright yellow, 

 with a row of crimson spots around the margin. It is further distinguished by 

 the presence of a pair of red subulate horns or cirrhi on the column. The 

 flowers are produced at different times of the year, lasting in beauty three 

 weeks. The variety macranthv/m of Liudley (0. Laicrenceanwm, Hort.), which 

 has flowers 3| inches across, differs in the lip wanting the row of marginal 

 spots, and in having a dark-coloured base with a yellow crest. — Mexico. 



Fig.— Warner, Se! . Orcli. PI., ii. t. 25 ; Jtiurn. TioTt. Sue, viii. p. 55, with fig. 

 (niaoraMhum') ; Batem. OrnJi. Meoo. et Gvat., t. 21 ; Id., Mon. Odont., t. 4 ; Flure dis 

 Serves, t. 62 : L'Orchidophile, 18S5, p. 68 (plate) ; Voltch's itun. Orch. PI., i. p. 40. 



O. INSLEAYI AUREUM, Hort. — A very distinct and handsome variety, which 

 differs from the type in having yellow sepals and petals ; the lip is also yellow, 

 sometimes faintly spotted around the margin with orange. — Mexico. 



Pig. — L/ndenia, Yiii. t. 359 {^ImscJiootiatnoii'). 

 Syx. — 0. Imleayi lm.scliootianiim . 



O. INSLEAYI LEOPARDINUM, Hort— A. very beautifully marked variety. 

 The sepals and petals broader than the type, reddish-brown, spotted and 

 margined with yellow. The most distinct feature of this variety lies in the 

 bright yellow lip, which is margined with a series of brilliant red spots ; the 

 effect of these on the yellow is very charming. — Mexico. 



¥m.— Oartennora, 1876, t. 856 ; Ilerve Hort. Beige, 1888, p. 61 (plate). 



O. INSLEAYI PANTHERINUM, Jle/i6. /.—A wonderful variety, remarkable for 

 its numerous very dark red blotches on the yellow lip ; sepals and petals chestnut- 

 browu with paler margins. — Mexico. 



O. INSLEAYI SPLENDENS, Hclih. /.—A very splendid variety, in which the 

 large flowers are A\ inches across, and of tine substance, from four to six 

 blossoms being produced on a scape during the months of October and 

 November. The sepals and petals are rich shining brown, tipped and edged with 

 yellow, and the lip is large, yellow, spotted with brilliant carmine, and having 

 deep orange-yellow crests. It is one of the showiest Odonioglots with which wo 

 are acquainted, and is extremely rare. — Mexico. 



Fig. — Orchid Albuvi,v.t.2l!>; EeicJumiacJiin, i. t.7; Gnril. Chron., N.S., 1886, 

 XXV. p. 305, f. 57. 



O. lOPLOCON, Bclib. f. — This distinct species produces its flowers in 

 branched jianicles, after the style of O. ramosiBsimum. The sepals and petals 

 are, however, narrower than those in that species, mauve in colour and wavy ; 

 the lip is furnished on each side at the base with a projecting, blunt, divaricate 

 angle ; the mid-lacinia being linear-triangular and having a peculiar system of 

 orange calli at the base, white at the apex. Prof. Eeichenbach suggests that 

 " if it be a mule it might be derivpd from 0. Edn-ardii and O. ramosissimiim." — 

 Native country not stated. 



