'6rO oechid-.growee's manual. 



- O. EXCAVATUM DAWSONI, Williams. — Though bearing some resemblance 

 to 0. excavatwm, this variety is very much stronger and more robust in all its 

 parts. Thebranching scapes are S feet long, and upon these its large lovely 

 bright yellow and rich brown flowers are borne in great profusion. When well 

 managed the scapes will often produce upwards of a hundred flowers, and wheu 

 seen in this state it is truly a noble object. — Feru. 



,. O. FALCIPETALUM, £inc?Z. — A species belonging to the microchilwm group, 

 producing a " scrambling panicle 20 feet long ; flowers 3 inches in diameter ; 

 sepals brown, margined with yellow; petals yellow, spotted with brown on the 

 lower halves; lip linear-reflexed, purple-brown, and having a cluster of sharp 

 tubercles in front of the crest." — Venezuela. 



O. FIMBRIATUM, Lindl. — This old and rare species was described by Lindley 

 in 1832 from a drawing of a single flower. It seems to have remained 

 unknown to collectors until quite recently. The pseudobulbs are oblong, two- 

 leaved r leaves linear-oblong ; scape many flowered, from 2 to 3 feet in length ; 

 sepals and petals bright yellow, with transverse red bars ; lip yellow. — Brazil. 



O. FLEXUOSUM, Sims. — ^A pretty free-blooming and well-known old species 



producing its showy yellow-spotted flowers in abundance on large branching 

 panicles. It has oval compressed two-leaved pseudo- 

 bulbs, and oblong-lanceolate striated leaves. The 

 flowers have the very small sepals and petals yellow 

 barred with chestnut-brown, and the large flat lip 

 transversely roundish oblong and bilobed, yellow 

 speckled over with minute chestnut-red dots. The 

 crest is pulvinate with three ridges in front ; it blooms 

 at different times of the year, and continues for several 

 weeks in flower. This plant is invaluable for cutting 

 purposes, the small bright yellow flowers producing 

 a charming effect when mixed with other flowers and 



ONCIDIUM FLEXUOSUM. ^^^^^^e. There are two varieties of this plant; the one 

 called MAJUS, which has much larger flowers than the 



other, though of the same colour, is scarce, and is best grown in a pot with 



moss in the warm house. — Brazil. 



Via.— Bot. Mag., t.22QZ; Lodd. Bot. Cab.,t. 424; Rchb. Fl. &ot., t. 94; L'Or- 

 chidopMtc, 1888, p. 15 (plate) ; Gardening World, vii. p. 53. 



O. FORBESII, Hooker, — A truly handsome dwarf species, closely related 

 to 0. crispum. It has rather small pseudobulbs, which are oblong blunt com- 

 pressed and furrowed, and terminated by a solitary lanceolate acute leathery 

 dark green leaf. The scape, which is radical, often springing from the axil of 

 an accessory leaf, bears a many-flowered erect panicle of showy flowers, which 

 are about 2 to 2^ inches across, very distinct, the obovate sepals and the much 

 larger undulated petals bright chestnut-brown, broadly margined with broken 

 golden yellow lines, as is also the lip, which is clawed, larger than the petals, 

 and flabelliform ; it blooms in November. This plant is best grown on a block 

 with moss in the cool house. — Brazil. 



Fxa.— Bot. Mag., t 3705; Orchid Album, ui. t. 104; Gard. Cliron, ss xi n 525 

 ff. 71, 72; TVao/t'* Jfora. Orc7t. Pi., viii.p. 39. •> • f- ", 



Stn. — 0. crigpjivi marginatum. 



