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O. IRIDIFOLIUM, Lindl.—A lovely miniature species, devoid of pseudobulbs, 

 the ensiform equitant leaves being produced directly from a thin creeping 

 rhizome much resembling in growth an Iris, from "vvhich it derives the specific 

 name. Leaves about 2 inches long, deep green; scapes one-flowered; flowers 

 measuring 1 inch across the longest diameter, that is from the tip of the dorsal 

 sepal to the base of|the lip ; sepals and petals very small linear- lanceolate ; lip 

 very large in proportion to the size of the flower, measuring f inch in breadth 

 and a little less than an inch in height, three-lobed, the side-lobes narrow 

 Bpathulate spreading, the mid-lobe deeply bipartite ; the flowers arc pale straw- 

 yellow spotted and barred minutely with bright red. This pretty species is of 

 very wide distribution, being found from Panama and Guatemala to Guiana., 

 Trinidad, Brazil, IT. S. of Colombia and Venezuela. 



FjG.—Lindc/tkt, iv. t. 1G9. 



O. JANEIRIENSE— See 0. longipes. 



O. JONESIANUM, Hclib.f.—A. very pretty and distinct species. The pseudo- 

 bulbs are very small, densely clustered, monophyllous ; the leaves are slender 

 and erect, subulate, channelled on the upper surface, deep green ; and the 

 flowers grow in drooping racemes, very elegant in character. The sepals 

 aaid petals are wavy obovate-cuneate, of a pale greenish straw-colour having 





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numerous, sometimes confluent, dark sepia-brown blotches ; the lijj is pure 

 white, wavy, transversely reniform, bilobed, the claw having on eacli side a 

 roundish yellow auricle with small purple dots, brown on the anterior border, 

 and a prominent whitish crest dotted with red in front. It flowers from 

 September onwards to December, and lasts for some time in beauty. It should ' 

 be grown in the warm house. — Paraguay. 



Fia. — On-hid Album, i\. t. 183; Liiidi'tiia, ii. t. 72; Z'On'/iiddpJiile. 1S&6, yi. r^O 

 (plate) ; T!ii- (rardcn., 1887. xxxi. p. 148, t. 588 ; But. Mag., t. 0982 ; Ga rtcnflora ' 1888 

 t. 1272 ; Itcichciibucliia, i. t. 21, f . 1 ; Ilcvue Hurt. Bdgi;'\?,?,^), p. 7, t. 1. ' ' 



