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ODONTOGLOSSUM Warneri ; var. purpuratum, 
Mr. Warner's Tooth-tongue. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEÆ. $ VANDEJE—DRASSIDE. (Orcuips, Vege- 
table Kingdom, p. 181.) 
ODONTOGLOSSUM.— Bot. Reg. 1839. t. 48. 
Sect. XANTHOCHILUM, or Stained lipped species. 
a. The ears of the column rounded, broader than long, or altogether absent. 
O. Warneri; pseudobulbis ovatis ancipitibus subangulatis apice elongatis 
diphyllis, foliis patulis lineari-lanceolatis racemo paucifloro brevioribus, 
bracteis minimis, sepalis ovalibus patentissimis, petalis paulo angustiori- 
bus obtusis ascendentibus, labelli trilobi plani laciniá intermediá cuneatá 
bilobá rotundatá lateralibus subquadratis, tuberculo disci simplici, co- 
lumnä elongata apterä.—Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1845. mise, p. 54. 
a. sordidum ; petalis sepalisque lutescentibus purpureo striatis. 
B. purpuratum ; petalis sepalisque albis purpureo leto striatis. 
The original of this dwarf species is no doubt a native of 
some part of the tropical regions of America, but we have 
not learned its exact history. It first appeared in public at a 
meeting in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, in May, 
1845, when it was exhibited by Mr. C. B. Warner, whose 
name it bears. The present variety was obtained from 
Mexico by Messrs. Loddiges, whose No. 1449* it is. A 
healthy mass of it is very handsome, the yellow of the lip and 
purple stripes of the sepals and petals being deep and clear. 
It is one of those plants which, although they may be 
called crop-eared, have not lost their auricular organs by any 
surgical process; their ears have naturally disappeared, not 
leaving even a stump behind. The group of species with 
which it is associated exhibits indeed every gradation from 
fine well developed ears in O. /acerum to their total absence 
in O. Warneri. In the specimen now represented there was 
not more than five flowers in a raceme; but when stronger, 
it will bear from seven to eight. 
