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chestnut-brown markings at the base; lip broad somewhat cordate, pale rose 

 spotted with crimson-purple. — Native country not stated. 



Fig.— JbM?'ft.o/ i/brt., 1892, xxiv. p. 329, f. 56; Gard. Chron.,3vdseT., 1892, xi. p. 587, 



f. 8t. 



O. POLLETTIANUM, Hart— A very handsome and distinct Odontoglot, 

 probably a natural hybrid between O. crispum and 0. gloriosum. The sepals and 

 petals are white tinged with purple on the underside and heavily blotched and 

 spotted with reddish-brown ; the lip wedge-shaped. It' was exhibited by H. M. 

 PoUett, Esq., Bickley, at South Kensington, at the E. H. S. meeting in February, 

 1884. — New Grenada. 



"Pm.—Orch. Album, vi. t. 280. 



O. POLYXANTHUM, Brhb. f. — A rare and handsome plant resembling 

 0. Hallii in the character of its pseudobulbs and foliage. Its flower scapes are 



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some 2 feet or more in length, drooping, the individual flowers being about 

 4 inches in diameter. The sepals and petals are large ovate-lanceolate acute, 

 deep tawny yellow, the sepals having a large roundish blotch of bright chestnut- 

 red towards the end and various smaller markings near the base, the petals 

 being marked only near the base ; the lip is shorter, cordate, cuspidate, nearly 

 covered by a broad dark chocolate-brown blotch, the edge being just marked 



