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compressed, 4 to 5 inches long, the base invested by large distichous scales, and 

 bearing at the tip a solitary dark green obovate-lanceolate leaf a foot long and 

 3 inches broad; the flowers are curious, and grow in a well-furnished pauicled 

 floxnous raceme, a foot or more in length ; the sepals and petals are linear-subulate, 

 flaccid, yellowish-green with a row of orange-red spots on the basal part ; and 

 the lip is shorter, three-lobed, the front trowel-shaped lobe white, the contracted 

 claw-like portion thickened tuberculately, crested, yellow spotted with orange. 

 This is a species which ought to be in every collection ; it blooms during May 

 arid June, and continues in flower for two months at a time ; it is best grown in 

 a pot, with peat. — Sraxil. 



Fm,—Bot. Mag., t. 5214 ; Puseatorea. t. 35 ; Gard. Chrou.. 1848, p. 1.S9, with fig. ; 

 Paxtm,Fl. fi'aj'd., i. p. 88, withfig. ; Veitch's Man. 0;r/t. i'i., viii. p. 69 ; Oi-chid Album, 

 X. t. 470. 



O. PINELLIANUM — See O. Batemanianum. 



O. PRAETEXTUM, Rclib.f. — A desirable species belonging to the 0. curtum 

 section. In growth it resembles 0. criapum. The flowers are sweetly scented, 

 resembling hawthorn. " The sepals and the very broad blunt retuse petals are 

 horse-chestnut colour, with many yellow blotches ; the lip is dark yellow, with 

 a broad brown margin around the broad anterior part, excepting the last circum- 

 ference which is yellow." — Brazil; Sao Paulo. 



VlG.—GaHcnJlora, 1887, t. 1238 ; Bot. Mag., t. 6C62. 



O. PULCHELLUM, Hooker. — A beautiful dwarf compact plant belonging to 

 the group with equitant foliage, the slender flower scape attaining a height of 

 about '*ilTUj;^°° The base of the leaves is compressed, striated, and the upper 

 part of each^ articulated on this basal portion, and is thick, succulent, tri- 

 quetrous, distichous, and sharp-pointed, 3 to 6 incites long ; the flowers grow in 

 close racemes, and are roundish, the lip deeply four-lobed, with the sepals and 

 petals much smaller, white with a tinge of pink around the yellow trifid crest ; 

 they are produced in abundance during the summer months, and remain for a 

 long time in perfection. It thrives well on a block, with plenty of moisture at 

 the roots. — Jamaica; Demerara. 



Fm.—Bot. Beg., t. 1787 ; Bot. Mag., t. 2778 ; Zodd. Bot. Cah., t. 19.S4. 



O. PULVINATUIW, Lindl. — A free-flowering species, compact in habit, the 

 pseudobulbs and foliage growing about a foot high. The flower scapes, however, 

 are not unfrequently 8 or 9 feet long, smooth, much branched, with flexuous 

 divaricate branches ; the flowers are very numerous and gay -looking, about an 

 inch across, bright yellow with the base of the sepals and petals crimson, and the 

 roundish three-lobed lip also yellow, but dotted with crimson around the margin; 

 on the disk is a convex cushion of dense hairs. It blooms during the summer 

 months, and lasts a long time in perfection. Pot culture and peat suit it best. — 

 Braxil. 



Fig.— Bot. B-g., 1833, t. 42 ; Voiteh's Man. Orch. PI., viii. p. 73. 



O. PULVINATUM MAJUS, Williams.—A fine variety of the preceding, with 

 the same habit of growth, but having blossoms much larger and also brighter in 

 colour. We saw this very fine iu August, 1884, in the collection of M. le Comte 

 Adrien cle Germiny, of Gouville, France. — Brazil. 



