Tab. 5697. 

 ODONTOGLOSSUM Alexandra; var. guttatum. 



Princess of Wales s Odontoc/lossum, spotted variety. 



Nat. Ord. ORcniDEiE.— GtiVandria Monanduia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5691.) 



Ojioktoglosstjm Alexandra;. Batem. in Proc. Sort. Soc. 1864, p. 186, et 

 Mbnog. Odontogloss. t. 14 et t. 9. Tab. nostr. 5691. 



Var. guttatum ; sepal is Hneari-oblongis acutis undulatis petalisque latioribus 

 purpureo-guttatis, labello albo subpanduriformi, apice quadrato retuso 

 caudioulato, disco flavo, marginibus guttatis. 



The remarkable difference in the form and colour of the 

 sepals and petals and lip of this variety, as compared with 

 those of the var. Triance, figured at Tab. 5691, or the vara. 

 Wcarii and Bluntii, figured in Mr. Bateman's magnificent 

 monograph of the genus, have induced me to figure it here. 

 It was flowered by W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.E.S., of Reigate, 

 in August of last year, is rather larger-flowered than the 

 varieties hitherto figured, and equal in beauty to any of them. 



Descr. of var. guttatum. Raceme four to five inches long, 

 about six-flowered. Mowers three inches and a quarter 

 broad from tip to tip of the petals, snow-white, the outer 

 half of the lateral sepals faintly tinged with rose-purple. 

 oepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, waved at the edges ; upper 

 with from three to five oblong, dirty pale-purple blotches near 

 the base ; lower with usually more blotches scattered on the 

 disk. Petals white, broader than the sepals, more crumpled, 

 with a few spots on the disk. Lip oblong-quadrate, some- 

 what contracted at the middle, margin toothed, apex truncate 

 and retuse, with a short, subulate appendicle at the apex; 

 calli small; the colour of the lip is white, suffused with yel- 

 low at the base, and having a sort of ring of dirty purple 

 spots on the margins of the disk. Anther white, streaked 

 with purple.—,/. I). II. 



Fig. 1. Ovary, lip, and column : — magnified. 

 KARCH 1st, 1868. 



