ODONTOGLOSSUM. 355 
Seape is verect, bearing an arching panicle of numerous 
somewhat star-shaped flowers; the sepals and petals are 
about 2in. long, and beautifully crisped or waved, the 
ground-colour being white, profusely speckled and spotted 
with rosy-purple and crimson markings (whence the name 
nzvium, or freckled). This species delights in a cool, 
moist atmosphere all the year round. It was discovered 
in New Granada in 1842, at an altitude of 8oooft. 
Warmers oclect Orchids, t. 7. 
Var. majus is the best variety; it is larger, and more 
compact in habit, and is one of the rarest of the genus. 
Bateman’s Monograph, t. 9. 
0. nebulosum.—A free-growing kind, which produces its 
beautiful flowers in May and June. Pseudo-bulbs large, 
two-leaved. Leaves gin. long by tin. broad. Flower-scape 
stout, as long as the leaves, and producing from three to 
seven flowers, which are each 3in. across and snowy 
white, except at the base of the sepals and petals, where 
they are prettily spotted with cinnamon-brown. A native 
of Mexico, where it grows at a height of 10,oooft., in ex- 
posed situations. It should be grown in a cool house, and 
be kept moist at the root all the year round. 
Plate; Bateman’s Monograph, t. 1. 
There are several named varieties of this species, one, 
called candidissimum, being wholly white, and another, 
named pardinum, unusually profusely spotted. 
0. odoratum.—A somewhat variable species. The flowers 
resemble those of O. nzvium in shape, and, as the name 
implies, they are very fragrant. The scape is erect, branched, 
and many-flowered. The sepals and petals are dull yellow, 
spotted and blotched with chocolate-brown, the edges being 
wavy ; the lip is white, with a large, purple blotch. This 
species is supposed to be one of the parents of many of 
