ODONTOGLOSSUM EUGENES. 
[PuaTEe 355. ] 
Native of New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs ovoid, compressed, some four inches high, smooth and 
deep green. Leaves ligulate, acute, a foot or more long. Scape somewhat flexuose, 
from a foot to two feet long, many-flowered. Flowers four inches across; se 
oblong-acute, pale yellow, blotched heavily with rich chestnut-brown; petals broader 
than the sepals, but similar in colour, differing, however, in bein rdered with 
pale yellow with white centre, and they are also spotted with chestnut-brown ; lip 
oblong-acute, serrated on the edge, crest expanded into two lobes, and terminating in 
two prolonged diverging teeth. Colwmn white, furnished with two broad wings. 
OponrocLossum EUGENES, Hort. Veitch. Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, i., p. 73. 
Odontoglossum has become both an extensive and a very important genus of 
the Orchidacew. The European travellers and plant collectors are continually 
sending home fresh stock, the result of their labours in various parts of the 
mountain regions of South America, and as it is now so well understood by growers 
cof Orchids at home that these Odontoglots are purely mountain plants, the 
treatment they receive on their arrival in this country is so thoroughly congenial, that 
we have succeeded in enlarging the genus to a very great extent with hybrid forms, 
which have added considerably to the embellishment of every Orchid-house in the 
‘country. These natural hybrids have been brought about through insect agency, 
and the great majority of them are welcome additions to our collections Such 
is the case with the plant whose portrait is here given, which was introduced by 
Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, and flowered for the first time in this country 
in the garden of His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, at Trentham. It is a very 
handsome hybrid, and its parents are supposed to have been Odontoglossum Pescatorei 
and O. triumphans. In general habit of growth it most resembles the first-named plant, 
but its flowers partake more of the character of O. triumphans. We are heartily 
glad to find so many natural hybrids are being discovered in their native wilds, 
for notwithstanding the skill and energy of our hybridisers at home, very little 
success has attended their labours with this genus; but we hope soon to see this 
difficulty overcome, for there is doubtless a great future yet in store for the 
numerous admirers of the Odontoglossums- The most forward seedling Odontoglots 
we have yet seen are in the garden of H. J. Buchan, Esq., of Wilton House, 
Southampton, raised by his gardener, Mr. Osborne. 
