584 orchid-grower's manual. 



O. PESCATOREI LOWIANUM, Bchb.f. ^This plant was first flowered by Sir 

 T. Lawi-enoe, Bart., and has very long sepals and petals which have numerous 

 mauve spots and dots on a fine light mauve ground. — New Grenada. 



O. PESCATOREI MELANOCENTRUM, BM. /.—A fine and distinct variety, 

 which is described as follows in the Gardeners' Chronicle, n.s., 1885, xxiii. 

 p. 239 : — " It looks as if it had a black centre. The top of the column and the 

 whole of its front side have this colour ; the lamellae of the base of the lip and 

 the bi-lamellate disk between them are likewise blackish-purple, while the small 

 anterior lamellae are orange, with a black-purple margin at the base; sepals 

 with a light purple wash on the middle line ; excepting the places mentioned the 

 whole flower is white." It was flowered and exhibited by Mr. W. Bull. — Xew 

 Cfrenada. 



O. PESCATOREI SCHRODERIANUM, Bchb. /.—A very beautiful variety of 

 0. Pescatorei, the original plant of which sold for 70 guineas, and is now, "after 

 having changed owners, in the collection of Baron Sir J. H. W. Schroder, The 

 Dell, Staines. In growth it resembles the type, but its flowers come near those of 

 the variety Veitchianum. The sepals and petals are densely spotted and blotched 

 with purple, which marking, being rather' confined to the basal part of the sepals 

 and petals, gives the flowers a very distinct appearance. — yew Grenada. 



¥m.— Gai-d. Mag., 1892, p. 135. 



O. PESCATOREI STUPENDUM, Rchb. f.—A large-flowered form. "Dorsal 

 sepal with a bright mauve-purple disk ; lateral sepals of the sam^ colour on the 

 outer halves, inner halves white ; petals snow-white with a few dark mauve spots ; 

 lip with the usual yellow calli; borders of the side laciniae and of the anterior 

 blade full of broken short mauve lines." 



O. PESCATOREI THOMSONIANUM.-A lovely variety, exhibited in 1889 by 

 H. M. PoUett, Esq., and Messrs. W. Thomson & Son, of G-alashiels, after whom 

 it is named.'' The sepals and oval petals are blush tinted with a few deep 

 purple blotches in the middle; the lip usually having only one blotch; the 

 yellow disk is heavily stained with deep purple on the radiating fringe at the 

 base. 



Fig. — Gardening World, v. p. 545 (woodont)- 



O. PESCATOREI VEITCHIANUM, Bclib. f.—A. very handsome and distinct 

 variety, resembling the type in its habit of growth, and to some extent resembling 

 Schriiderianum in its flowers. The sepals and petals are white transversely 

 blotched at the base with mauve-purple, these markings having the peculiarity 

 of agreeing in their positions on the sepals and petals, so that they form a series 

 of irregular spots and broken rings extending towards the apex. This plant is 

 in the collection of Baron Sir J. H. W. Schroder .^ — Neiu Grenada. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, ii. t. 68 ; Veitch's Man. Orcli. PL, i. pp. 1 and 60. 

 O. PHALAENOPSIS — See Miltonia Phalaenopsis. 

 O. PHYLLOCHILUM — See Oncidium hastatum. 



