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Odontoglossum. 

 purple, blotched and banded with white or light yellow, and 

 having a golden-yellow border ; lip white, with a brown base, 

 minutely serrate or fringed. This species blooms during spring, 

 and may be grown along with O. crispum. Colombia, at an 

 elevation of Soooft. or more. (111. Hort., 1S71, t. 73.) 



"As a species, O. liiteo-piirptireum is one of the most variable 

 known, a circumstance to be partly accounted for by the large 

 area over which it is spread, and by its intermixture with other 

 species, which has resulted, not only in the production of 

 natural hybrids, but also from them and their parents has 

 sprung an e.xceedingly mixed progeny" (Veitch). 



Var. sceptrum. — Flowers smaller than in the type, beautifully 

 marked with deep brown on a golden ground ; lip \\'ith a large 

 horseshoe blotch in front, and heavily fringed on the outer 

 margins. 



A"ar. Vuylstekeanuin. — Flowers smaller than in the type; colour 

 a beautiful mixture of nankeen-yellow blotches on a sulphur- 

 yellow ground. 



O. maculatum {Llav. and Lex.). — Although surpassed in 

 beauty by many newer kinds, this old garden plant is still worth 

 cultivating. In pseudo-bulbs, leaves, and spike, it closely 

 resembles O. cordafuiii ; but it differs from that species in 

 having shorter and broader sepals and petals, and a more 

 rounded lip, which is yellow, spotted with brown. The flowers 

 are usually developed in March and April, and they remain 

 for a considerable time in full perfection. This species is 

 com.mon in many parts of Mexico, where it was one of the 

 earliest kinds discovered; it was introduced in 1S3S. (Batem. 

 Monog., t. 20.) 



O. madrense {Rchb. f.). — A synonym of O. ??ia.xil!are. 



O. maxillare {LindL). — A rare and pretty species, with narrow, 

 thin pseudo-bulbs, 4in. long, and two-leaved. The leaves and 

 spike are about loin. long, and the flowers are arranged in two 

 series, usually about ten on a spike; they are fragrant, 2^,in. 

 across ; the sepals and petals are lance- shaped, and keeled at the 

 back, white, purplish at the base ; the hp is shorter than the 

 petals, with a narrow, yellow base, and a trowel-shaped, wliite 

 blade. The flowers are similar to those of O. Cervanfesii. 

 Introduced in quantity from Mexico, 1872. It should be grown 

 in a warm corner of the cool-house in summer, and wintered 

 with the Cattleyas. Syn. O. madrense. (B. M., t. 6144.) 



O. miniatum (Hort.).— A variety of O. coronarium. 



O. mirandum (Rchb. f.).—k. synonym of O. Liiidkyanum. 



