HORTUS VEITCHII 



Keichenbach, in naming the plant, suggested it was probably a natural 

 hybrid between 0. triumphans and some species of the odoratum group. 

 It is now recognized, however, that 0. crispum and O. Lindleyanum are 

 the two parents. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM (EBSTEDII, Bchb.f. 



Kchb. in Gard. Chron. 1877, vol. vii. p. 302 ; The Garden, 1884, vol. xxvi. t. 454 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 6820 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. i. p. 57, fig. 



Professor Eeichenbach believed that Warscewicz was the first to dis- 

 cover this plant, as a sketch in his possession made by Warscewicz seemed 

 to be referable to this species. 



It was afterwards found by Dr. CErsted, and later by Kramer and 

 Endres, the last-named sending plants to us in 1872. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI, Lindl., var. VEITCHIANUM. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. xvii. p. 588 ; The Garden, 1884, vol. xxvi. t. 452 ; 

 Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. i. p. 59-60 (frontispiece). 



A superb variety which appeared in one of our own importations of 

 the type. 



The flowers, which opened for the first time in this country in March 

 1882, are larger than the type and richly blotched with magenta-purple. 



It is probable the whole stock of the plant is in the unrivalled collection 

 belonging to Baron Sir Henry Schroder at The Dell, Egham. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM PR^NITENS, Rchb. f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1875, vol. iii. p. 524 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6229 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. 



PI. pt. i. p. 62. 



A rare species introduced in 1874 through Gustav Wallis, by whom it 

 was discovered on the eastern Cordillera of New Grenada in the province of 

 Pamplona. 



Only a few plants were received from the discoverer, and it has probably 

 not since been re-imported. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM EETUSUM, Lindl. 



Bot. Mag. t. 7569. 



A rare species discovered hy Hartweg in 1841 on rocks in the 

 mountains of Saraguru, near Loxa, Ecuador, and first flowered at Chelsea 

 in 1882. In habit and inflorescence it resembles Odontoglossum Edwardii, 

 but the flowers are orange-red in colour with a green line at the base of 

 the sepals and petals. 



ODONTOGLOSSUM UROSKINNERI, Lindl. 



Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1859, pp. 708, 724 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. i. p. 69, fig. 



Sent to Chelsea from Guatemala by Mr. Ure- Skinner, in 1854, but not 



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