612 oechid-geower's manual. 



O. HAEMATOCHILUM, Lindl. — A compact growing and handsome plant, 

 similar in habit to 0. Laneeanum. The pseudobulbs are absent or obsolete, the 

 short thick fleshy oblong acute dark green red-spotted leaves springing directly 

 from the crown. The scape is radical, deep purple-red, erect, bearing a panicle 

 of moderate-sized flowers, of which the oblong sepals and petals are greenish- 

 yellow blotched with bright chestnut, and the transversely reniform lip is of a 

 deep sanguineous crimson, the margin yellow mottled with deep rose crimson, 

 and the claw and basal auricles of a deep magenta-rose. This plant is seldom 

 met with in collections, being very scarce. "We have seen it very fine in the 

 collection of G. W. Law Schofield, Esq., of Eawtenstall, near Manchester. It 

 blooms in November. — Guatemala. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, i. t. 32 ; Paxton, Fl. Gard., i. t. 6. 



O. HARRISONIANUM, Lindl.— Hhie. was first flowered in the collection of 

 Mrs. Harrison, of Liverpool, in 1832. It is a dwarf gi-owing species, having 

 compressed greyish-green pseudobulbs and leaves of the same colour. The 

 flowers are produced on spikes .about 1 foot long, measure about f inch in 

 diameter, brilliant yellow, stained with rich crimson. Flowers in May. — Brazil. 



FiG.—JBot. Reg., t. 1569 ; Bevue Hoi-t. Beige, 1892, p. 253, t. 22. 



Syn. — 0. pallidum; . pantlierinum ; . pentaspilwm ; O . ramiferum ; 0. acro- 

 ioti'yum. 



O. HASTATUM, lAndL — -An old species which was flrst referred to Odonto- 

 glosswm, but Lindley first pointed out its true characters as an Oiicidium,. 

 Pseudobulbs ovoid; leaves oblong-lanceolate about 9 inches long; flowers 

 1| inch across ; sepals and petals lanceolate, acute, brown, with yellow-green 

 bars and margins; lip three-lobed, the front lobe red passing into greenish- 

 yellow at the apex, the lateral lobes yellowish- white. Lindley describes two 

 varieties, FLAVESCENS, with straw-coloured lip, and ATRATUM, having the lip 

 claret colour. — Mexico. , 



Fig. — Arm. de Gand, t. 271 (^Odontoglossum phyllocliilum') ; Satein. OrcJt. Mcx. 

 ct Qviatem,, t. 20 (jOdontoglossum liaMattari). 



Syn. — Odowtiglossam phyllocMlum. ; Odontoglossum liastatum. 



O. HENCHMANNI,— See O. bosetjm. 



O. HOLOCHRYSUM, JJcfc&./.— Though long known to botanists, this species, 

 like many more flue things, has only of late years become known to cultivators. 

 The plant is similar in habit to 0. hifolium, having the pseudobulbs oblong, 

 sulcate, and beautifully spotted; the two leaves are thickish ligulate acute, and 

 the flowers are in secund racemes, of a rich golden-yellow, set very densely upon 

 the spike, the lip being trifid with the large middle lobe clawed reniform and 

 bilobed. No collection should be without this charming plant, which grows 

 freely in a low temperature. — Peru. 



O. HUBSCHM, Rchh. f. — This novelty was received in 1883 by Baron 

 Hruby, of Pekau, from Mr. Hiibsch, to whom it is dedicated. Reichenbacli 

 describes it as follows in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1885, n.s., xxiv. p. 6-50 : — "It 

 has an exceedingly branched pyramidal panicle ; the bipartite orange-coloured 

 wings of the column give the best character ; the lip is narrower in front than 

 at the base, and bears a peculiar system of calli, sulphur- coloured with some 

 brown tint." — Ecuador. 



