620 



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spike boars numerous very beautiful and shony flo-svcrs, o inches across, 

 tliick and coriaceous in texture; sepals greenish-yelloiv, transversely barred 



and blotched -with chocolate- 

 brown ; petals deep choco- 

 late-ljrown, with a narrow 

 yellow- marginal border and 

 a yellow tip ; lip large, 

 sub-rotund with a hastate 

 base, margins inflected ; 

 rich orange-j-ellow with 

 lines of red spots at the 

 base. — Ei'vndiir : Luxe . 



Y Hi. — On-hid Alhinii, x. 

 t.-t3'J;./"«r«..'/'//.'/-A..lS'.n,xxii. 

 p. 517, f. 97: ]!cicliri,};irliUi. 2nd 

 ser,,ii.t.r)4: V,-itrli' x Man. Orrli. 

 PL, Yiii. \>. 5i;. 



O. LUCESCENS, 7.'r/,6./. 



— This tine noTclty was 

 introduced by us tlirough 

 Mr. Patin, and is nearly 

 allied to 0. mfiall'n'um. 

 "It diifers in the long, 

 recurved, wavy dorsal sepal, 

 in the trimembrate callus 

 at the base of the lip, and 

 in the acute wings of the column ; the dorsal sepal is brown with yellow 

 recurved margin, much graved at the edge ; its stalk is very short, with 

 auriculae which ascend on each side into a narrow margin; the lateral sepals 

 have longer stalks, an oblong-acute greenish- brown blade, whose median nerve 

 is rather green inside ; jietals very short, with two auricles to the short stalk, 

 lilunt, hastate, triangular, wav^-, dark cinnamon, with crisp 3-elloir limlj ; lip 

 ligulate short, angulate at the l^ase, dark gTcenish, anterior part fine purple ; 

 column greenish with brown spots, orange at the aiiterior angulate base; wings 

 narrow^ Indian purple, lunar ascending" (H. G. Rcichenliach, in Ganlcners' 

 Chronich, :3rd ser., 1887, i. p. 799).— P. ^ of CohnMa. 



O. LUDENS, Rrhh. f. — A species with the growth resembling 0. serniium. 

 Sepals rich Ijrown merging into a mixture of ycUowish-ljrown, the upper one 

 with a narrow^ yellow border; petals j-ellow^ with cinnamon-brown marbling ; 

 lip pale yellowish ochre, coloured with browuish-mauve at the base of the 

 callus. — Naiive country not stated. 



O. LURIDUM, Lindl. — A peculiar Ijulbless epiphyte, with large thick tiolitary 

 carinate leaves upwards of a foot long, dull green and spotted, and a tall slender 

 scape bearing a panicle of large olive-green flowers, having brown confluent 

 Idotches which nearly cover the surface ; the sepals are clawed undulated, the 

 dorsal sepal roundish rhomboid, the petals larger, and the lip threc-loljcd with 

 the central lobe broadly kidney-shaped and emarginate ; the flowers are freely 

 produced. — Tropical America. 



Yia.—Bct. Beg., t. 727 ; Jlot. 3Iiii/., t. 3603. 



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