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THE SPECKLED 0D05TT0GL0T. 
Pseudo-bulbs ovate, compressed, rather strongly but bluntly ribbed. Leaves narrowly oblong 
tapering to the ba>- , single on the pseudo-bulbs, shorter than the panicle. Flowers pure white' 
speck led everywhere with rich crimson, arranged in the garden plant in a narrow racemose panicle,' 
in what appears to be the same tiling wild they form a loose branched panicle of considerable size' 
Bracts very short, scale-like. Sepals and petals from an ovate base linear-lanceolate, acuminate' 
spreading equally and very wavy. Lip of the same * - - - 
form and colour 
with 
Teeth 
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small, distinct, with about 3 unequal blunt lobes to each ; downy. Colum 
se, with a pair of awl-shaped ears near the summit 
The resemblance of this to the Long-tailed Oncid (0. phymatocUlum) is so great as to raise 
question as to the distinction between Oncids and 
Odontoglots. 
We have often opened 
owned 
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but 
that, after all, there is something vague and unsatisfactory in the characters 
usually Magued to the genera. Species, indeed, have been indifferently placed in one or the other 
or ,,,nes stationed in the Oncids by one botanist have been referred to the Odontoglots by another! 
It will therefore be useful to explain that, in addition to any other distinction, this may be taken 
as unexceptionable, namely, that the Oncids have a short column, tumid at the base in front, as 
m . Iicannrxedcut of Oncid inm phymatocUlum, while the Odontoglots have a lengthened column 
tumour 
Oncid 
The management of this, and all such plants, is precisely what is require 
