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OKCHIL-GROWERs; MANUAL. 



clear yellow, the dih.k being a long white ridge, which is continued quite to the 

 raid-lobe. The flowers are produced during the spring and early summer 

 months. It shoulil be grown in the Cattleya house, in a pot or lia.sket. — 

 Guatemala; Mexico. 



Fig.— 7?()^ .Vaa.. t. .".S7S ; Florn rhs Sern-x, t. 182."> ; Pinjilt. I.es Orcli.. t. 33 ; Gurd. 

 Chron., 1871. p. 42, f. 4 ; .hiiirii. of Hurt.. 1S8S, xvi. p. 235. f. '26 : Ileichtiitxictiiii, ii. t. 78 ; 

 Orchid Alhum. viii. t. 373 : Gard. Cliroii.. 3ril ser., 1888. iii. p. 108. f. 18 : Jtcnic Hurt. 

 Bilge, 1891, p. 108, 1. 10 : HOrc/iidnptiHc, 1891. p. 301 ; Vcitrir-s Man. Orcli. PI. riii. p. 84. 



Syn. — 0. thjrimim .sjdcndidiim. 



O. SPRUCEI, Lindl. — This species belongs to the section 'I'crelifulin. and is a 

 near relation to 0. CeboUeta, but its leaves, which are sometimes 2^ feet long, ai'e 

 more swollen in the centre ; the bright yello'i'i' flowers are produced in flexuose 

 panicles in great jirofusion ; the sepals and petals are obovate obtuse, yellow, 

 lilotched with red above, and the lip has the transverse middle lobe narrowlj' 

 clawed, two-lobed, yellow, stained with red at the base. From its distinct habit 

 it makes a good addition to a collection. — Bra::il . 



O. STELLIGERUM, Ttrhh. /.—This is an interesting and free-flowering 

 species, allied to, but little resemljling <_). htistafi'iii. The stellate flowers are 

 ])roduced in panicles, the oblong ligidate sepals and petals jellowish witli many 

 brown spots, the lip j'ellowish-white, with a darker yellow callus, the lateral 

 lobes short obtuse-angled, the isthmus nari-ow, and the mid-lobe roundish 

 t'ordate, shortly and alji'upth* cuspidate. — Mcxica. 



O. STELLIGERUM ERNESTI, lF,7/»(»is 



OXCIDIU.II srPERBIEKS. 



A very beautiful variety much 

 su])erior to the type, named after 

 Mr. Ernest Measures, son of R. J. 

 Measures. Esq., of Camberwell, 

 in whose collection it was first 

 flowered in 1886, and was exhibi- 

 ted before the Royal Horticultural 

 Society at South Kensington on 

 July 27th of that year, when it 

 was deservedly awarded a first- 

 class cei-tificate. Se|)als and 

 petals yellow spotted with dark- 

 brown ; the lip is broad, the front 

 lobe being of a delicate rose- 

 colour, while the anterior jiortion 

 is pale yellow. — ilcj'ica. 



Fig. — (trcJild Alhinii. vi. 

 t. 2i;o. 



O. &TENOFETALUM. — See 



(), Batemaxiaxim. 



O.SUAVEOLENS. — See Bkas- 

 SIA Lanceaxa. 



O. SUPERBIENS, llrhb. ./'.—This handsome species belongs to the same 

 section as O. mocrantltv.-m and ('. scrtdimn. The pscudobuUis arc elongate 



