[Plate 18.] 
THE SPECKLED ODONTOGLOT. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM N-dEVIUM.) 
A stove Epiphyte, from the Andes of New Grenada, belonging to the Order of Orchids. 
THE SPECKLED ODONTOGLOT.-Pseudo-bulbs ribbed. 
Leaves thin, lanceolate, narrowed to the base. Panicles 
spreading. Sepals and petals narrow, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, wavy. Lip of the same form, with a slight 
tendency to become hastate, with the 2 teeth of the crest 
large, downy, somewhat 3-lobed. Processes of the column 
subulate, spreading. 
specific Character. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM i^F/JW.—Pseudo-btilbis costatis, 
foliis tenuibus lanceolatis basi angustatis, panicula diffusa, 
sepaiis petalisque angustis ovatolaiiceolatis acuminatis 
undulatis, labello subconformi vix hastato: crista* dentibus 
2 grossis subtrilobis pubescentibus, columnse cirrhis subu- 
latis patulis. 
i 
settled 
first instance at least, by dried specim 
e-lipped flowers spotted with crimson, 
ens. 
all a simil 
It present 
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exhib 
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good plants of which we see are offered for sale by Mr. Linden at the modest price of two 
*• In that plant the sepals and petals are yellow, while the lip alone, which is distinctly 
'iped, is white. In this, on the contrary, there is no yellow, but all the ground is pure white. 
i us was sent to England several years since by Sir R. Schomburgk, and wis 
The plant befor 
Horticultural 
by hi 
J • What appears to be the same species is No. 721 of Mr. Linden's herbarium of 1846, found 
collectors, Funck and Sclilim, at the height of 6000 feet, at St, Lazaro and la Pefia, in the 
province of Truxillo, and said to hav* * W/™> Kn snntted with crimson ; a circumstance possibly 
connected with the colour 
U^-ered by Messrs. T*«IK« 
varietv of this 
June 
and in that particular 
la 
a Ppear as if these Odontoglots were subject to considerable differences, just as we have 
■" . ~~ " mau states ot the Am 
enhV0rth Oncid, of which last g 
and 
magnificent form, 
