ODONTOCJLOSSUM. 593 



O. TRIPUDIANS OCULATUM. Bchb. /.-A very beautiful variety, first 

 flowered by the late J. Day, Esq., Tottenham. It has large glossy flowers, of 

 which the sepals are almost entirely chestnut-brown with yellow tips; the petals 

 yellow banded with chestnut-brown ; and the pandurate lip white with several 

 violet blotches around the crest, and a large brownish-violet blotch on the 

 anterior part, the margin denticulate and crisped. — Peru. 



O. TRIPUDIANS XANTHOGLOSSUM, Bchb. f.— This variety is distinct from 

 the preceding, having the lip wholly yellow with mauve blotches, the crests 

 only pure white, thus forming a pretty contrast with the other varieties in our 

 gardens. — Peru. 



O. TRIUMPH ANS, Bchh.f. — A magnificent stout-growing species, with large 

 ovate-elliptic compressed ancipitous pseudobulbs, oblong lanceolate acute dark 

 green leaves, and many-flowered racemes of bold and brilliant blossoms, which 

 are produced during the winter and spring months, and will last in perfection 

 for several weeks. The flowers are 4 to 5 inches in diameter; the sepals and 

 petals are lanceolate slightly undulated, the petals rather broadest, both golden 

 yellow transversely barred and spotted with brownish-crimson; the lip is 

 clawed elongate cordiform, white at the base, the acuminate front portion rich 

 deep brownish-crimson. There are many varieties of this plant, some much 

 better than others, but all are worth growing. — New Grenada. 



¥10,.— U III. Ilort., t. 60!); Batem. Mnn. Odont., t. 23 ; Pescatorea, t. i& ; Orchid 

 Alhuni; ii. t. 58 ; Puydt, Les OnU., t. 30 ; Florist and Pom., 1877, p. 217, t. 452 (yellow 

 lip and white lip) ; Gard. Chron., 1867, p. 516, with fig. ; Id., N.S., 1886, xxv. p. 141, f. 29 ; 

 LinfliriUa, iii. t. 134 ; Reichenbacliia, ii. t. 86 ; Vi'itch'.i Man. Orch. PI., i. p. 68 ; Journ. 

 oflloH., 1886, xii. p. 403, f. 73 ; Mevue Hort. Beige, 1892. p. 121, f. 11. 



Syn. — 0. spectatissimum. 



O. TRIUMPHANS AUREUM, H. Williams.— A. distinct and handsome variety, 

 which flowered in the collection of A. H. Smee, Esq., of Carshalton. Elowers 

 some 3 inches across, somewhat fleshy in texture ; sepals and petals nearly equal, 

 oblong, acute, ground of both soft light yellow, blotched with orange-yellow; 

 lip large, clawed at the base, the edge being flnely toothed, white, with a single 

 large blotch of soft light yellow, which occupies all the anterior portion, leaving 

 just a narrow border of pure white ; a few yellow spots about the crest, which is 

 yellow, with two diverging teeth. — U. S. of Colombia. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, x. t. 460. 



O. URO-SKINNERI, Lindl. — ^A very beautiful strong-growing species worthily 

 dedicated to Mr. Ure- Skinner, who did so much towards introducing many 

 popular Central American Orchids at a time when but little was known of the 

 mode of securing a tolerably safe transit. It has a creeping rhizome, on which 

 are produced the large ovate compressed shining pseudobulbs, which are spotted 

 with purple, and from the base of which arises the tall scape, 2 feet or more in 

 height, bearing a magnificent raceme of flowers, which are each nearly .3 inches 

 across ; the sepals and petals are oblong acute olive-yellow heavily blotched with 

 rich purple-brown ; and the lip, which is roundish cordate and convex, is of a 

 charming mauve-purple irregularly mottled with white ; the disk bears a pair 

 of white crests, and the upper part of the column is orange-coloured. It 



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