Tas. 8097. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM wavium. 
Colombia. 
Orcumacerz. Tribe VaNDEs. 
Opontoetossum, H. B. et K.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 561. 
Odontoglossum neevium, Lindl. in Part. Fl. Gard. vol. i. p. 87, t. 18; Fol. 
Orch. Odont. p. 2 (excl. var. majus); Fl. des Serres, t. 594; Pescatorea, 
t.13; Warn. Sel. Orch. vol. i. t. 7; Regel Gartenflora, t. 791; Batem. 
Monogr. Odont. t. 9; aff. O. glorioso, Lind. & Reichb. f:, sed racemo 
siete segmentis undulatis et labelli lobis lateralibus subhastatis 
iffert. 
Herba epiphytica, cespitosa. Pseudobulbi ovoideo-oblongi, subcompressi, 
circa 2-3 poll. longi, apice diphylli, basi circa 4-phylli. Folia elongato- 
ligulata, acuta, subcoriacea, 6-18 poll. longa, 3-3 poll. lata. Scapi 
axillares, suberecti vel arcuati, circa 2-1} ped. longi, racemosi, multiflori. 
Braclex ovato-oblonge, acuts, concave, circa 3 lin. longe. Pedicelli gra- 
ciles, 3-1 poll. longi. Flores speciosi, albi, atropurpureo-maculati, labelli 
disco flavo. Sepala patentia, anguste lanceolata, acuminatissima, incurva, 
undulata, circa 14 poll. longa. Petala sepalis similia, paullo breviora. 
Labelli unguis erectus, latus; limbus reflexus, hastato-ovatus, acumi- 
natissimus, undulatus, incurvus, sepalis paullo brevior, basi velutious ; 
crista bilamellata, lamellis erectis dentatis, Colwmna clavata, 4 lin. 
longa, alis cirrhatis curvatis. 
The history of this distinct and handsome species has 
been sadly confused. It was originally figured and de- 
scribed by Dr. Lindley in 1850 from a plant which was 
exhibited at one of the spring meetings of the Horticultural 
Society, and which is said to have been sent to England 
several years before by Sir R. Schomburgk, but this is 
very doubtful, considering its habitat. There is, however, 
a flower and coloured sketch in Lindley’s Herbarium 
labelled, ‘* Rollissons, June, 1847,” and this Lindley con- 
sidered to be a variety, but he also added a specimen 
collected by Funck & Schlim at San Lazaro and La Pena, 
in the province of Truxillo, in Venezuela, having yellow 
flowers spotted with crimson, which belongs to O. odoratum, 
Lindl. Shortly afterwards he added a variety majus, from 
a specimen collected by Linden at 8,000 feet altitude in 
the province of Pamplona, Colombia, which belongs to 
O. gloriosum, Lind. & Reichb. f. A similar confusion 
of species occurs in “ Pescatorea,’’ where the species was 
figured, though a note that it was met with by Mr. Schlim 
OcToBer Ist, 1906, 
