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ORCHIDS 



Oclontoglossum. 



4in. to 6in. in length. The flowers are 2in. in diameter, and 

 are large for the size of the plant ; they are produced during 

 the winter months, lasting several weeks in full beauty, and are 

 very fragrant. The sepals and petals are white, transversely 

 streaked at the base with fine lines of reddish-brown ; the lip 

 is marked in a similar manner, and is deeply three-lobed, the 

 lower lobe being broad and heart-shaped. Mexico, 1847. 



(Fig. 108; B. M., 

 t. 4923.) 



Var. decorum. — 

 Flowers larger ; seg- 

 ments broader, 

 streaks broader and 

 shorter, and coloured 

 purple instead of 

 red. (W. O. A., vi., 

 t. 251.) 



A'ar. punctatis- 

 simiim. — Flowers 

 spotted all over with 

 rose. 



O. cirrhosum 



(Liudl.) (or cirro- 

 sinn). — A graceful 

 and pretty species, 

 with elongated, com- 

 pressed pseudo- 

 bulbs, 2 in. to 31 n. 

 in length, bearing 

 two leaves about ift. 

 long. Flowers 4in. 

 across, produced in 

 profusion on a long, 

 arching, branched 

 spike ; sepals narrow, 

 with long, flexuous, tail-like ends ; petals a little broader at 

 the base ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes toothed, the middle 

 one narrow, recurved, and tail-like ; colour of all the parts milk- 

 white, with spots of maroon scattered over them ; crest yellow, 

 with radiating red lines. The flowers appear in April and May'. 

 Ecuador, 1S75. (B. iM., t. 6317.) 



O. citrosmum (Z///^/.).— One of the most attractive of cool 

 Orchids, and easily kept in health if grown at the warmer 

 end of the cool-house, or along with the Cattleyas. It requires 



Fig. 108. OijoNroGijissi'M CKRVA.\Tifsn, sho\vin-g 

 Habit and detached Flower 



(Habit, much reduced ; Flower, § nat. size). 



