430 okchid-geower's manual. 



111. Orch. PI., Odontoglossum, t. 8 ; Flore des Serves, t. 633 ; Lem. Jard. 

 FL, t. 90; Batem., Mon. Odont, t. 6 ; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 29. 

 Syn. — Odontoglossum pendulum ; Oncidium Galeottianum, Drapiez, 



0. citrosmuin roseuin. — A very fine variety of 0. citrosmum, 

 having the same habit and manner of growth as the type, and 

 producing its beautiful flowers on long drooping racemes. 

 The sepals and petals are white, and the lip a bright rose 

 colour. There are many varieties of this, some of them 

 having more colour than others ; the best form we have seen 

 is that figured by Mr. Warner, as quoted below. When the 

 plant is in bloom the pot should be suspended from the roof, 

 so that the pendent racemes may hang down naturally, in 

 which position it produces a charming efi'ect. — Mexico. 



Fig.— Warner, Sel. Orch. Pl.,i. t. 28 ; Illust. Hart., t. 59. 



0. COnstrictum, LindUy. — Although not a large-flowered 

 species, this is a very pretty plant, producing a large branching 

 panicle of gaily-coloured blossoms. The pseudobulbs are 

 rather large, ovoid, compressed, ribbed, supporting a pair 

 of linear-lanceolate leaves a foot long, and of the same dark 

 green colour, and a slender scape, a foot and a half long, 

 supporting a loosely branched panicle of equal length. The 

 flowers are an inch and a half across (in wild specimens three 

 inches) ; the oblong lanceolate sepals and petals are bright 

 yellow blotched with orange or reddish brown, the colours 

 often disposed in longitudinal bars, the lip distinctly fiddle- 

 shaped, with an apiculus, white with a pair of oblong rose- 

 coloured blotches in the middle contracted portion, and a 

 pair of small toothed crests on the disk. — La Guaijra; 

 Caracas. 



'Fig.— Bat. Mag., t. 5736. 



0. CoradiEei, Rchb. f. — A distinct showy Odontoglot sup- 

 posed to be a natural hybrid between 0. triumphans and some 

 species of the 0. odoratum group. The pseudobulbs are 

 elongate ovate compressed, with ligulate oblong leaves usually 

 in pairs, with accessory ones sheathing the bulbs and evolving 

 from their axils the flower scape with its raceme of eight to 

 ten flowers. The flowers are stellate, three inches across, 

 ■with lanceolate acuminate sepals and petals, which are 

 primrose yellow, with some large irregular blotches of chest- 

 nut brown ; the lip is shorter, obovate oblong, apiculate, con- 

 tracted in the middle, paler yellow, with a large squarish 

 blotch of chestnut red in the central part, and a crest of two 



