Tab. 5736. 

 ODONTOGLOSSUM constbiotum. 



Narroiv-petalled Odontoglot. 



Nat. Ord. Oechide^:.— Gtnandria Monaxdkia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5G91.) 



ODONTOGLOSSim const net u, n ; paeudobulbia «^ ni ~gSS^; 

 elongato-lineari-lanceolatiB, scapo elongate gracUkmo, 1WJ» ""[£ 

 laxercmosa multiflora, braeteis minutia ovatu, •^HStW 

 petaliaque Bubaiunlibua oblongo-lanceolatis a cumma tis aa eis iu c > 

 maculatis, labello panduriformi a pl ce truncate v. **™*M£^ 

 v. caudate, albo maculis diiabus roseis notato margmibus erosis, crista 

 lamellis parvis dentatis, columna elongata apice 2-cirrhosa_ 



Odontoglossum constrictum. Lindl, in Bot. Beg. 1844; Misc. p. U , 

 Beichb.f. in Walp. Ann. v. 6. p. 825. 



This beautiful species was sent to us from Messrs. Back- 

 house, of York, under the name of 0. *W**Z*J^ 

 which it differs in the bracts, the sessile sepals he form 

 the lip and its crest, and in the slender curhi a ^ a P e ^ 

 the column. It is, ^^^^^^ 

 strictum, a native of Caraccas, ot w&icn r »•*» 

 original specimens collected by Linden *P«^ 

 originally introduced in about lb43, when, as " "" » , 



it flowered both with Mr. Kucker and with ^°^£ 

 Broughton Hall. The flowers of the native JP««^J" 

 considerably larger than those of the cultivated measuim 

 two inches and a half to three ^ches across <ke«pa» W 

 petals; but in form, colour, and ™^°l^ m£ 

 the structure of the column, lip. and «**« ^".s 

 . ence whatever between the native airdcultiyaod specimen^ 



D ESC1 , P»MM>» two inches to ^^g'X,^, 

 long, ovoid, compressed, but not sharp e age h 

 grooved. 2W a foot long by an « h . n d * h«U , 



bright green, narrow linear-lanceolate, latnei out 



OCTOBER 1st, 1868. 



