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wood in the cool house, and should never be allowed to get dry, as it enjoys 

 plenty of moisture. — Brazil ; Organ Mountains. 



YlG.—Loddiges, Sot. Cab., t. 1854 ; JBot. Mag., t. 3499 ; Bot. Beg., t. 1920 ; Flore 

 des Serres„t. 2148; Knowles ^ Westc. Fl. Cab., t. 64; Maund, Botanist, i. t. 26; 

 Warner, Sel. Orch. PI., ii. t. 26 ; Mook. First Cent. Orch. PL, t. 78 ; VeitclCs Man. Oreh. 

 -P^., Tiii.p. 28. 



O. CRISPUM GRANDIFLORUM, Hort.—A. very fine variety of the preceding. 

 Its blossoms are very large, being twice the size of those of 0. crispum, and of a 

 deep rich brown colour ; the sepals rather narrow and very wavy, the broad flat 

 petals and lip with a narrow edging of golden-yellow, and the yellow colour of 

 the claw extended to the base of the lip, where it forms a large radiating blotch. 

 It succeeds best on a block, and requires a good supply of water at the roots. — 

 Brazil. 



Fig.— Floral Mag., t. 485 ; Jonrn. ofHoH., 1889, xix. p. 39, f. 5. 



O. CRISPUM MARGINATUM.-See 0. Fokbesii. 



O. CRISTATUNI, Rolfe.—K species allied to 0. Schillerianum, introduced 

 from Brazil by the Horticulture Internationale. It is described in the Kew 

 Bulletin, 1892, p. 211, as follows : — " The sepals and petals are reflexed, undulate, 

 and of a clear bright yellow ; the lip a little deeper yellow, with a row of suffused 

 red-brown dots on either side of the crest, and the column- wings deep yellow." 

 Flowers in April. — Bra'dl. 



O. CROCODILICEPS, BaHiI. /.—A pretty little species with small ovoid, 

 wrinkled pseudobulbs; leaves ouneate-oblong, acute; scape many-flow.ered ; 

 sepals and petals light greenish-yellow, covered with longitudinal stripes and 

 blotches of cinnamon-brown; lip obcordate, white, with a tuft of hair at the 

 base ; striped with lilac in front of the callus, yellow and spotted with the same 

 colour in the front portion ; " the anther is very large, comparable to a broad 

 crocodile's head." — Mexico. 



O. CROESUS, Bclib. f. — A pretty dwarf-growing species of compact tufted 

 habit, whose flowers are somewhat suggestive of those of a pai^sy. Thepseudo- 

 bulbs are small oblong-ovoid, tapering upwards, compressed and supporting a 

 pair of light green ligulate bluntish leaves, some 4 to 6 inches long, the erect 

 scapes not taller than the leaves, bearing some three or four flowers, an inch 

 across in the spread of the petals, and with a lip f inch broad ; the sepals and 

 petals are deep purplish-brown, and the lip has two smaller yellow roundish 

 lateral lobes and a broad golden-yellow renif orm front lobe, the crest prominent, 

 deep velvety black. It blooms very freely during summer, and continues a 

 considerable time in full beauty. The plant succeeds best in the Catileya house, 

 either suspended from the roof upon a block, or potted in peat and sphagnum 

 moss. It comes very close to 0. longipes. — Brazil; Organ Mountains. 



Fig.— Floral Mag., 2na ser., t. 40 ; Tli-e Garden, 1889, xxxv. p. 580, t. 706. 



O. CRUENTUM.-See 0. pelicanum. 



O. CUCULLATUM, lAndl. — Although a small-flowered species, this is a very 

 beautiful one. It is a dwarf-growing plant with oval obtuse costate pseudobulbs,. 



