ODONTOGLOSSUM HARRYANUM. 
[PLATE 366. | 
Native of the United States of Colombia, 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs oblong-ovate, compressed, smooth when young, becoming 
ribbed and furrowed with age, attaining a height of some three inches or more, 
and pale green. Leaves in pairs, oblong obtuse, from six inches to a foot in 
length, somewhat coriaceous, and, like the pseudobulbs, of a pale green hue. Scape 
erect, three or more feet high, many-flowered. Flowers between three and five inches 
across; sepals elliptic-oblong, broader than the petals, spreading, deep chestnut-brown 
or chocolate, transversely streaked and bordered with rich yellow or greenish yellow ; 
petals oblong, incurved, ground colour deep chestnut-brown or chocolate, longitudinally 
streaked in the basal half with purplish mauve, and margined with yellow ; lip large, 
oblong-oval, three-lobed, lateral lobes curved upwards, ground colour white, heavily 
streaked with feathery lines of bluish purple, the crest being much fringed and 
rich deep yellow, anterior lobe somewhat cordate, pure white, which however soon 
changes to dull yellow. Column terete, furnished with two small toothed wings at 
the point. 
OponrocLossum Harryanum, Reichenbach fil., Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.S., XXV1., 
1886, p. 486; The Garden, xxxiil., t. 633 ; Reichenbachia, ii., t. 49. 
Odontoglossum Harryanum is an extraordinary species, one which was unknown 
to the Orchid growers of Europe until the year 1886, having at that time been 
introduced by Rodriguez Pautocha, who sent it to Messrs. Horsman and Co., nurserymen, 
Colchester, where it first put forth its blossoms, to the great surprise of its owners. 
The stock, which was small, passed into the hands of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of 
Chelsea, and it was dedicated to the head of that firm by Professor Reichenbach, 
who remarked that “it is a fresh type,a grand and unexpected surprise.” A short 
time after this event, however, large importations of this plant arrived in England 
through Messrs. Sander and Co., of St. Albans, and others, which, having arrived 
in excellent order, soon became distributed through the country, and as it =e vey 
free grower, it necessarily became plentiful, and now at the present time it is sold 
at a cheap rate; notwithstanding this, its local habitat has never been disclosed to 
the public. The flowers vary much in colour and size, upon different plants, but 
it has not been established long enough to equal the imported growths, the old 
flower spikes of which, on the imported plants, were between two and three feet 
long, showing the scars of from fifteen to eighteen flowers, s0 that up to the 
present time we have not seen this species in all its grandeur. It would appear 
to be a local species, and many of the collectors who have been assiduously hunting 
the mountain regions of the United States of Colombia, for new Orchids, are credited 
