the ‘spike on the spot, and Mr. Vuylsteke gave us a 
flower, which has preserved its colour to a remarkable 
extent, and he subsequently furnished a photograph of 
the plant, so that we are able to give its habit. Judging 
from this it is a free-growing subject. 
We understood that a very high price was asked for it, 
and one gentleman told us that he had offered £200; but 
it did not change hands. 
Descr.—Plant about a foot high. Bulbs ovoid, bearing 
about three leaves at the same time as the flowers. 
Leaves narrow, lanceolate, acute, six to nine inches long, 
recurved. Tlower-spike shorter than the leaves, nearly 
erect, six-flowered. lowers about two inches and a half 
across. Sepals and petals similar, ovate-lanceolate, slightly 
undulate, crimson at the base, white above the middle, 
and spotted with red, pink around the margin. Lip 
fiddle-shaped, half the length of the petals, yellow at the 
base; lateral lobes rounded, crimson ; front lobe broader, 
rounded, waved, white, spotted with crimson.—W. B. H. 
Fig. 1, reduced representation of the plant of Odontioda Vuylstekex ; 2, a 
flower of Odontoglossum nobile; 3, a flower of Cochlioda Noetzliana :—both 
natural size, from plants exhibited with the hybrid. 
