334 ORCHIDS. 
higher temperature than is here named for established plants, 
in order to promote a rapid growth, and assist them to form 
good pseudo-bulbs, on account of the severe check which 
they usually experience in transit; for in their weakened 
condition, artificial cool treatment sometimes gives them an 
additional check, from which they do not readily recover. 
0. Andersonianum.—A beautiful plant, supposed to be 
a natural hybrid between O. crispum and O. gloriosum. 
Fig. 78. Flower of Odontoglossum Andersonianum 
(} nat. size). 
In pseudo-bulbs and foliage it resembles the former, whilst 
the blossoms are more like those of O. odoratum. The 
flowers of the best forms are 2in. in diameter; the sepals 
and petals are narrower and more pointed, and the lip is 
narrower, than in O. crispum; the colour is cream-yellow, 
streaked and spotted with chestnut-brown, and there is 
usually a single large blotch on the lip. It requires the 
