Plate 461. 

 ODONTOGLOSSUM SCHLEIPPERIANUM. 



If we may judge from the experience of the last few years, 

 tliere is no more prolific family amongst tropical plants than 

 that of Orchids. Scarcely a meeting of the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society takes place without some novelty being produced ; and 

 on a visit we paid to M. Linden's establishment at Brussels 

 last autumn, we found some fifteen or sixteen new species which 

 have not yet been introduced into commerce. 



The genera of Oricidium and Odontoc/lossuni have produced 

 a large number of these novelties, and amongst them have been 

 some remarkably fine yellow and orange-coloured flowers. We 

 have already figured the splendid Oncidiiim macrantluim and 

 the pretty little Oncidiiim calanthum \ the one remarkable for 

 its long scape of brilliant yellow flowers, the other for its 

 delicate primrose-coloured bloom ; and now in the odontoglot 

 figured we have a fine and striking plant of a different shade of 

 colour, but equally remarkable for its brilliant appearance. 



Odontofflossum Scldeipperianum was introduced by Mr. W. Bull, 

 of the King's-road, Chelsea, from whose establishment of new 

 and rare plants so many first-class novelties have been intro- 

 duced. It is a native of Costa Eica, and flowers in July and 

 August ; the ground colour of the entire flower is a deep red 

 orange-yellow extending even to the stalks ; the sepals and 



