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ODONTOGLOSSUM Cervantesii. . 
Cervantes’ T. ooth-tongue, 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
. Nat. ord. Orncuipacex. $ Vanpex—Brassip2. Lindley’s Vegetable 
Kingdom, p. 181. ined. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM, Bot. Reg. vol. 1839. t. 48. 
O. Cervantesii ; pseudobulbis ovatis angulatis, foliis solitariis: oblongis in 
petiolum canaliculatum angustatis, scapo paucifloro, bracteis vaginisque 
membranaceis acutissimis equitantibus elongatis, sepalis membranaceis 
oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, petalis latioribus subunguiculatis acutis, 
labello subcordato-ovato acuto unguiculato ungue carnoso cyathiformi 
pubescente antice bidentato medio tuberculato: processubus 2. pilosis 
ante cyathum, column: pubescentis auriculis rotundatis. 
Of the beautiful things belonging. to the white-lipped 
section of this genus not one is more perfectly lovely than 
that which is now figured from a specimen communicated 
last February from Messrs. Loddiges, who imported it from 
Oaxaca. It is the No. 1613 of their catalogue, and in the 
way of the well-known O. Rossii ; but its large thin delicately 
pink flowers, banded with crimson near the centre, are in 
all respects much handsomer. 
Among other valuable attributes the plant has that of 
being very sweet-scented, emitting a delicious odour something 
like bitter almonds. 
Although it has just been compared with O. Rossii, yet 
in truth it is much more like O. membranaceum, (the No. 
1614* of Messrs. Loddiges' catalogue, ) a plant found at Oaxaca 
by Count Karwinski, and also in the great Hackney collec- 
tion. "That plant, however, has perfectly white flowers, with 
the exception of concentric broken crimson bands which 
occupy the lower part of all the segments of the flower ; its 
petals and lip are very blunt, and the latter is very deeply - 
heartshaped; while in O. Cervantesii on the other hand the 
lip is scarcely heartshaped, and has no band-like markings ; 
