all the credit is due of having solved a great botanical puzzle, and proved to demonstration that the Cuitlauzina pendula 
of Lexarza is none other than the Odontoglossum citrosmum of Lindley.” 
Under these circumstances, however undesirable the meddling with established names, I scarcely see how, in 
common justice to Lexarza, we can do otherwise than adopt his specific name of pendula, more especially as it happens 
that the plant to which he originally gave it remains to this day the only one out of nearly a hundred Odontoglossa 
that has flower-stems which are strictly ۰ 
Our gardens contain many varieties of O. pendulum, of which, though all are beautiful, some are far superior to 
others. That represented in the Plate, and which forms a part of Mr. Rucker’s collection, is among the best. Mr. 
Rucker keeps it in his coolest house, where it is perfectly at home, and produces a profusion of its lovely drooping 
racemes in May and June. It should always be grown in a pot. 
Dissrctions.—-1. Front view of lip and column; 2. Side view of ditto: magnified. 
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The idea that Cuitlauzina pendula might possibly be identical with Odontoglossum citrosmum had more than once occurred to myself, but 
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Lexarza's character of the flower-scape,—which he described as “ bracteis destitutus”—had always proved an insuperable difficulty. It seems, 
however, that the scapes of the other Odontoglossa that he met with happened to be entirely clothed with large inflated bracts; our present plant 
therefore, in which they occur only at long intervals and are exceedingly minute, may in comparison be said to be almost “ destitute ”of them. 
