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blossoms during the autumn months, and continues flowering for a long time. — 



Guatemala. 



Fig. — Warner, 8el. OrcJi. PL, iii. t. 17; Batem.. Mon. Odont., t. 2; Lindenia, iii. 

 t. 122 ; Veitch's Man. Orck. PL, i. p. 69 ; Orchid Albwm, ix. t. 417. 



O. URO-SKINNERI ALBUM, Qower. — A lovely variety with a pure white lip, 

 was exhibited by Major-General E. S. Berkeley before the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society on October 10th, 1893, when it received an award of merit. 



O- VELLEUM, licJib.^ f. — A curious and interesting species, with oblong 

 compressed pseudobulbs, ligulate leaves about 6 inches long, and dense racemes 

 of flowers which have the general shape of those of 0. Karwinskii. The sepals 

 and petals are yellowish with numerous sepia-brown spots and lines ; the lip is 

 Stalked, ligulate, broader and a little undulated, apiculate at the tips, white 

 covered with numerous purple-mauve lines and blotches. — Ecuador. 



O. VEXATIVUM, Biclih. /.■ — This showy and distinct plant is one of recent 

 introduction, and is probably a natural hybrid between 0. nehulosum and 

 0. inaculatum. It has oblong compressed pallid pseudobulbs, ligulate leaves. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM VEXATIVUM. 



and tall racemes of large showy distant flowers ; the sepals are light brown tinged 

 with green, and margined with white; the petals are broad, pure white spotted 

 at the base with greenish-brown, and the broad semi-ovate blade of the lip is 

 white with a few spots at the base ; the callus is trifid, yellow, with a few reddish- 

 brown spots ; the growth of the plant is intermediate between that of the two 

 supposed parents. It was first bloomed by Lord Londesborough under the care of 

 Mr. Denning, the flowers having been produced in August and September. — Mexico^ 



