The woodcut represents, for purposes of comparison, two nearly allied Odontoglossa, viz., O. pulchellum 
and O. Egertonianum ; they both come from the same country (Guatemala) and closely resemble each other in 
habit—only that the pseudobulbs of the latter have much the sharper edges—but the flowers are very different. 
The spikes of 0. Egertonianum (2) are a sort of Orchid-imitation of the racemes of the “ Lily of the Valley,” 
though unfortunately they have no perfume, while those of O. pulchellum (1) emit a delicious, almond-like odour, 
not very unlike that of Gardenia radicans ; they are, moreover, very-chaste and beautiful, and are freely 
produced during the winter months. Under these circumstances the species has long since become, what it well 
deserved to be, an established popular favourite. Yet on its introduction some five-and-thirty years ago—I had 
then just received the plant from my lamented friend Mr. G. U. Skinner—its first feeble attempts to flower left 
such an impression of its insignificance upon my mind, that I churlishly refused it a place among the magnates 
of its family in “The Orchidaceæ of Mexico and Guatemala” on which I was then engaged! But greater 
discrimination in the treatment of our plants—in other words the recognition of the system of “ Cool-Orchid- 
growing”—has led to a more just appreciation of its merits. 
