OXCIDIUM. 613 



O. HUNTIANUM.-See 0. hoseum. 



O. HYPHAEMATICUM, Bc7i6./.— A beautiful little plant, with small oblong 

 depressed three-ribbed pseudobulbs, bearing a single oblong-lanceolate obtuse 

 leaf. The flowers are large, but somewhat laxly set upon the branching raceme ; 

 the sepals and petals are cuneate-oblong crispy of a chestnut-brown with a 

 yellow margin, the lip, which is reniform in the anterior part with an apiculus, 

 being of a rich deep yellow. The flowers of this species are very showy, as, in 

 addition to the colours of the inner surface, they are blood-red on the outer side. 

 It should be grown in peat and sphagnum, and kept in the cool house. The 

 flowers are produced during the latter part of summer and beginning of 

 autumn. — Ecuador. 



O. INCURVUNI, Barker. — A very pretty and distinct dwarf Orchid, with 

 ovate ancipitous three- or four-ribbed pseudobulbs, two or three ensiform leaves, 

 and erect scapes 2 feet high, bearing a racemose panicle of the elegant sweet- 

 , scented flowers, which have the sepals and petals linear-lanceolate wavy and 

 quite free, white cross-banded with reddish-purple and the concave roundish lip 

 pure white. It flowers during autumn and winter, and lasts long in beauty. 

 This plant is best grown in a pot with peat ; it is indeed a very fine species when 

 well grown. We have seen a specimen growing in a cool house bearing twenty- 

 five spikes, and a charming object it was. A magnificent specimen of this plant 

 was exhibited by G. Douglas, Esq., Esk Bank, Dalkeith, in September, 1893, 

 before the Caledonian Society's Show in Edinburgh. It was a wonderful 

 example of cultivation, being several feet in diameter and stated to have 

 consisted of forty spikes, containing 12,000 flowers. It flowers in late summer. 

 — Mexico. 



'Pig.— Batem. Oreh. Mex.'et Guat., t. 29; Sot. Mag., t. 4824; Bot. Beg., 1845, 

 t. 64 ; nil. SoH., t. 49. 



St\. — 0. albo-v'wlaccum. 



O. INCURVUM ALBUM, Linden. — This is a chaste and distinct variety of the 

 foregoing, having pure white flowers, in other respects resembling the type. It 

 was exhibited by W. Lee, Esq., of Downside, Leatherhead, at South Kensington, 

 in October, 1883. Its flowering season is September and October. — Mexico. 



Fia.—L'lll. Sort., 3rd ser., 1882, xxix. t, 444. 



O. INTERMEDIUM, Kiwmles et Westcott. — A handsome and distinct plant, 

 compact in growth, producing from a creeping rhizome small dwarf pseudobulbs, 

 each of which bears a single erect, stiff, fleshy leaf, which is oblong-acute, 

 carinate beneath and exceeding a foot in length. The flower spike is erect and 

 reaches about 18 inches or more in length, bearing a much branched, many- 

 flowered raceme; sepals spathulate; petals obovate-oblong, undulate; both 

 sepals and petals yellow spotted and barred with chestnut-brown ; lip three- 

 lobed, lateral lobes short, revolute and obtuse, middle lobe reniform, flat and 

 spreading. — Cuba,. 



Fig.— Xnowles .J- Westcott Floral Cab., t. CO ; Orchid Album, viii. t. 345. 



Stji. — 0. luridum intermedium. 



O. lONOSMUM See 0. tigkinxi5i ungtjicxjlatum. 



