Tas. 6502. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM SOOT. 
Native of Venezuela. 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pER —Tribe VANDER. 
Genus Opontoatossum, HT. B. et K.; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Odontoglossum.) 
OpontoeLossum (Euodontoglossum) odoratum ; pseudobulbis ovoideis compressis 
marginibus acutis sulcatis, foliis anguste ensiformibus pergamaceis, panicula 
amplissima multiflora, bracteis parvis, floribus 14-2 poll. expans. luteis rubro- 
fusco maculatis, sepalis petalisque consimilibus anguste lanceolatis longe 
acuminatis incurvis undulatis v. subcrispatis, labello hastato lobis lateralibus 
brevibus rotundatis intermedio elongato late subulato longe attenuato puberulo 
disco 4-dentato, columna supra medium anguste alata alis dentatis apice cirrhis 
2 divaricatis incurvis margine inferiore 1-dentatis aucta. 
O. odoratum, Lindl. Orchid. Linden. No. 86; Fol. Orchid. Odontoglossum, p. 3. 
A many-flowered sweet-scented species of Odontoglossum, 
discovered in the humid and gloomy forests of the Sierra 
Nevada of Merida, at an elevation of 7000 to 8000 feet, 
by Linden. It belongs to the section with O. Halli, Lindl. ; 
O. nevium, Lindl.; and others which constitute the genus 
Odontoglossum as first known and described. All have 
slender spreading ears at the top of the column, which 
sometimes end in bristle-like appendages. The specimen 
figured flowers in the Royal Gardens in March, and, 
though not previously figured, is well known in cultivation. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs two to three inches long, narrowly 
ovoid, compressed, two-edged, grooved. Leaves a foot 
long and under, by one inch broad, narrowly ensiform, 
acute, hardly coriaceous, rather the consistence of parch- 
ment, pale green. Panicle stalked, sometimes three feet 
long by one and a half broad, copiously branched, many- 
flowered ; bracts small, membranous. lowers one and a 
half to two inches broad, dull golden-yellow, blotched with 
brownish-red. Sepals and petals similar, narrowly lanceo- 
JULY Ist, 1880. 
