ODONTOGLOSSUM. (20) ISANTHIUM. 
soe oe New Grewana, in the province of Pamplona—Funck 
and Schlim, (v. s. sp. comm. cel. Linden.) 
Of this fine =~ ~ sgengg is shar two to three feet high, and not much 
narrower, flowers are of ample size, of ; delicate semitransparent 
texture, with a ‘faint bush ae sane the middle of the sepals, and a stain of 
where als i 
° white. 
with crimson. Since the ¢-publidadson of this in Paxton it has occurred to me 
that it is pred the O. nobile of Reichenbach fil., for bg vast is cae 
and & ; 
do 
but unless Poe is some typographical error in the learned Be specifi 
character which destroys its meaning, h s plant must be different, especially 
i loured, 
since he describes the lip as purple, and od, other rose-colo} y 
specimen of Pescatorei is without a number, but with a reference to an unpub- 
ished drawing, no. 69, which I have not seen, I am the more rece la 
hether this can be 0. nobile, because there is in reality Ramona to separa’ 
it from Odontoglossum, as Professor Reichenbach partly ts, the etna 
being in truth extremely near O. crispum, the ragged crim: ae dages at 
~ oe of the =~ Hite, heared identical with the lateral pred so generally 
d in this g 
57. 0. crispum. Lindley, in Ann. Nat. Hist., 15. 256. 
O. foliis lanceolatis scapo multifloro paniculato (nunc brevi 
racemoso) brevioribus, bracteis ovatis acutis  ensinte internodiis 
mult6 brevioribus, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis petalisque ovatis 
acutissimis crispis laceris membranaceis, labello subconformi basi 
cuneato, cristee lamellis lateralibus brevibus tridentatis duabus 
alteris linearibus apice liberis interjectis, columnz alis rotundatis 
laceris. 
Wild in New Grenapa; in the woods between the villages of 
Ziquapira and Pacho, in the province of Bogota—Hartweg, 
(v. 8. sp. et ic. pict.) 
‘ost beautiful species, occasionally as much as three feet high and more. 
_ Flowers large, oem, with a purple spotted centre. Column deep purple. 
Differs from the in the colour of the flowers, and in the form of the lip 
and its crest, 1 teres very similar. 
* 58. 0. pygmeum. Lindley, in Benth. Pl. Hartw., p. 82. 
O. pseudobulbis ovalibus vaginis membranaceis acuminatis 
vestitis, foliis angusté ovalibus in petiolum angustatis racemo 
aptera, ovario eiber 
ORS in GuaTeMALa; at the foot of the active voleano Xetuch, 
ie - feet cas the sea, near Quezaltenango—Hartweg, 
v. 8. Ae) 
ee. 34 i 3 
: piccolo posing ap pa bor oy eager ig 
-ongeerptawrntan, Sar of iin oak I have not seen 
diameter, even 
- the pollen-masoes, and it may not belong to this genus 
