ODONTOGLOSSUM. 



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0. Vnylstekeanum, Bchh. f. — Professor Reichenbach in de- 

 scribing this species says : " A grand thing. Take an Odo?ito- 

 glossum mulus suJpJmrezon, give it a lip much dilated at the 

 top, and add the sharp edges of the petals of Odontofjlossmn 

 Wilckeanum." The whole flower is sulphur- coloured, with 

 the few blotches of the odd sepal, the petals, and the lip of 

 the " deepest richest dazzling orange" ; the lateral sepals are 

 also of that colour, except at their base. — New Grenada. 



ODOXTOGLOSSUM WARNERIANTJM (p. 470). 



0. Wallisii, Bchb. f. — A slender and graceful plant, with 

 something the aspect of 0. Lindlcyanum, but superior to that 

 species on account of the more pleasing colour of the lip. 

 The pseudobulbs are ovoid ancipitous, the leaves linear- 

 lanceolate plicate, and the flowers two and a half inches 

 across, pedicellate, racemose, on a slender scape. The sepals 

 and petals arc oblong-lanceolate, the former more narrowed to 

 the base, with a long central bar of reddish brown and a 

 narrow even edge of pale yellow, the latter with the central 

 colour more broken up and the yellow edge broader ; the lip 



