Tas. 6037. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM vexituariom. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. OrcuipEm.—Tribe VAaNnDE&. 
Genus Opontoaiossum, H. B. and K. ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid., Odontoglossum). 
OpontogLossum (Phalenopsoidea) vexillarium; pseudobulbis parvis anguste 
oblongis compressis, foliis pedalibus anguste elliptico-lanceolatis acumi- 
natis, scapo gracili 2—4-flore, floribus maximis roseo-suffusis, perianthio 
plano, marginibus foliolorum basique labelli albis, sepalis petalisque late 
obovato-oblongis obtusis acutis vy. subacutis, labello maximo orbiculari 
2-lobo, ima basi in unguem brevem contracto, ungue hastato angulis in 
cornua acuta adscendentia productis, disco pauci-calloso, columna 
brevissima exalata. 
Oponroctossum vexillarium, Reichb. f. in. Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1867, 
p- 901; 1872, p. 667 cum in Xylog.; 1873, p. 580, and 644, fig. 125. 
The first notice of this plant, which is now deservedly the 
envy of every Orchid grower who does not possess it, ap- 
peared in the “ Gardeners’ Chronicle” of 1867, where, as we 
gather from our friend Professor Reichenbach, the interests 
of science are unfortunately sacrificed to the desire of the sole 
possessor of any useful information regarding its origin and 
country that these should be withheld from the public. In 
the volume for 1872, however, a full account of its intro- — 
duction, obtained from various growers, is given by Professor. 
Reichenbach, and from which I learn that the plant was 
overlooked by Warscewicz, discovered by the late lamented 
Bowman on the western slope of the Andes of New Grenada, 
and sent home alive, but in a dying state, first by Mr. Wallis, 
when collecting for Mr. Linden, and secondly by Mr. Roezl, 
also dead, and lastly, by Mr. Henry Chesterton, whose plants 
flowered with Messrs. Veitch, to whom I am indebted for 
the opportunity of now figuring it. Considering the worship 
now being paid to this Queen amongst Orchids, it would be 
JUNE Ist, 1873, 
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