ODONTOGLOSSUM. 353 
Var. sceptrum.—Flowers smaller than in the type, beauti- 
fully marked with deep brown on a golden ground; lip 
with a large, horseshoe blotch in front. 
Var. Vuylstekianum.—Flowers smaller than in the type; 
colour a beautiful mixture of nankeen-yellow blotches on 
a sulphur-yellow ground. 
Fig, 84, Odontoglossum maculatum 
(much reduced). 
0. maculatum.—Although surpassed in beauty by many 
newer kinds, this old garden plant is still worth cultivating. 
In pseudo-bulbs, leaves, and spike, it closely resembles 
O. cordatum; but it differs from that species in having 
shorter and broader sepals and petals, and a more rounded 
lip, which is yellow, spotted with brown. The flowers are 
usually developed in March and April, and they remain 
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