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bilobed lip having a bar of the same colour across its ooiitraoted base. The 

 flowers are produced in April and May, and last for three or four weeks in 

 beauty. There are two varieties — MINUS, Lindl, with smaller flowers; and 

 MAJUS, Lindl., which is much to be preferred, the flowers being largeri It is 

 best grown in a pot with peat or moss. — Guatemala; Mexico. 

 Fig.— Bof. Reg., 1842, t. 30 ; VeiteWs Man. Orch. PI., viii. p. 79. 



O. SPILOPTERUM.— See O. Batemanianum. 



O. SPLENDIDUM, A. Rich. — This is a noble species, and once very rare, but 

 owing to the large importations received of late years it is now within the reach 

 of every Orchid grower. It is closely related to 0. iigrinum, of which Dr. Hooker 

 makes it a variety, and like that it is very showy and effective. It has short 



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roundish or ovate somewhat compressed pseudobulbs, each of which supports 

 a single erect fleshy oblong deep green leaf, and produces at the' base a stout 

 erect scape 2 feet long, terminating in a noble branched inflorescence of large 

 and very handsome flowers ; the oblong ligulate recurved sepals and petals are 

 yellowish-green heavily barred with rich brown, and the lip is large and flat, 

 the mid-lobe transversely oblong, with a broadish unguis, and of a uniform rich 



