Tas. 8725. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM cureiquEense. 
Central America. 
OrncuIpDAckArE. Tribe VANDEAE. 
Opontoctossum, H. B. et K.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 561. 
Odontoglossom chiriquense, Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 692; Rolfe in 
Orch. Rev. 1899, p. 49, fig. 8; 1902, p. 281, fig. 29; 1916, p. 177, fig. 34; 
species O. coronario, Lindl., affinis sed floribus majoribus sepalis petal- 
isque valde undulatis apte distinguenda. 
Herba epiphytica, subscandens. Rhizoma validum, lignosum, vaginis sub- 
membranaceis imbricatis obtectum, radices crebrius emittens ; pseudobulbi 
ovoideo-oblongi, subcompressi, 7-11 cm. longi, 4-6 cm. lati, purpureo- 
suffusi, apice monophylli, basi diphylli. Folia elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, 
coriacea, basi conduplicata, 16-30 cm. longa, 6-9 cm. lata. Scapi erecti, 
validi, 30-35 cm. alti; racemi 20-25 cm. longi, multiflori; bracteae oblongo- 
lanceolatae, acutae, subconcavae, 1-1-5 em. longae. Flores speciosi, lutei, 
insigniter brunneo-maculati. Sepala et petala patentia, orbiculari-elliptica, 
obtusa, undulata, 25-3 em. longa. Labellwm basi columnae breviter 
adnatum, trilobum, 2-2°5 em. longum; lobi laterales erecti, oblique auri- 
culati, obtusi, undulati, parvi; lobus intermedius patens vel reflexus, 
cuneato-obovatus, obtusus, 1°5-2 cm. longus, basi angustatus; crista 
tuberculata, 2-seriata, clavata, incurva, lata, 1°5 em. longa; alae latae,. 
membranaceae, undulatae; clinandrium cucullatum, membranaceum, cum 
alis continuum ; pollinia 2, pyriformia ; stipes planus, late oblongus ; glan- 
dula squamiformis.—O. coronariwm, var. chiriqguense, Veitch, Man. Orch. 
pars. i. p. 28,—R. A. Rours. 
This handsome Odontoglossum was originally discovered 
by Warscewicz on the volcano of Chiriqui in Costa Rica, 
at 9,000 feet above sea-level; it was first described by 
Reichenbach, from herbarium specimens, in 1852. Its 
introduction to cultivation did not take place until 
thirty years later when it was imported by Messrs. 
Sander and Sons, St. Albans. The locality was not then 
recorded, nor was it known in July, 1890, when an 
inflorescence was sent to Kew for determination by 
Messrs. E, Vervaet and Company, Ghent. In 1894 
Mr. R. Pfau sent a photograph and a dried specimen 
_ from San Jose, Costa Rica. It now appears that the 
_ Species also occurs in Colombia; there is, in the collection 
SErremper, 1917, 
