ODONTOGLOSSUM CUSPIDATUM XANTHO- 
GLOSSUM. 
[Puate 390.] 
Native of U.S. of Colombia. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobiilbs broadly oval, compressed, slightly furrowed, and deep 
green, bearing on the summit a pair of lanceolate leaves, which are narrow, almost 
petiolate at the base, and obtuse at the apex. Scape- erect, much longer than the 
leaves. Raceme nodding, many flowered. Flowers nearly four inches across, and 
very showy; sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, deep chestnut-brown, bordered and tipped 
with yellow, and also transversely barred with a few streaks of yellow; petg 
broader than the sepals, ovate, acute, waved at the edges, bright yellow, heavily 
spotted and blotched with deep chestnut; lip broadly ligulate, acuminate, waved at 
the edges, bright golden yellow in front, behind which is a large patch of deep 
chestnut ; disc and crest white with a yellow border, which is dotted with chestnut. 
Column curved, toothed at the sides, white, dotted with chestnut. 
OpoNTOGLOssuM cusPprIpatuM, Reichenbach f., Iindenia iii, t. 99; Reichenbach f., 
Xenia Orchidacea, ii., t. 184. £ 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CUSPIDATUM XANTHOGLOssUM, Reichenbach f., Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
N.S., 1881, xv., p. 428; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., p. 438. 
This rare and magnificent Odontoglossum is one of the very best of this 
section, of which there are so many importations, but very few have proved to be 
so fine as the one here illustrated. It belongs to the O. luteo-purpureum group, 
but it is very distinct from the typical plant, the forms sent home from time to 
time by various collectors requiring to become established before they flower and 
become recognised, for now we have such a_ vast quantity of these plants it 
becomes difficult to recognise them from the shape of the pseudobulb only. This 
species is a native of U.S. of Colombia, a country which appears to abound 
in Orchidaces, from whence such vast quantities have been sent, and are still being 
sent to Europe, and to this country in particular. — ae 
Our ae subject is a very free-growing plant as well as an abundant 
bloomer, throwing out splendid spikes of bloom when the ‘Plant ae re. ; 
health. The present plate was prepared from a specimen which did — — in Our 
own collection in the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries at Holloway, but this season 
this beautiful plant has passed into the rich and rare collection of the Comte de 2 oo 
Germiny, Chateau de Gouville, France, where Odontoglossums are cultivated in great 
numbers, and with great skill. Although some few years ago it was stated o- — a 
