ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRA OUTRAMII. 
[PLatTE 408. ] 
Native of the Province of Bogota, U.S. of Colombia. 
Epiphytal.  Pseudobulbs somewhat ovoid, compressed, some three inches high, 
bearing on the summit a pair of linear lanceolate leaves, which are from nine 
inches to a foot long, and deep green. Scape slender, erect, oftentimes much 
longer than the leaves, and many flowered. Flowers some three inches across, 
white flushed with rose, bearing several clusters of brown spots and _ blotches; 
sepals ovate, lanceolate, with plain edges; petals broader than the sepals, undulate 
and toothed at the edges, carinate behind; lip subpanduriform, toothed at the 
edge, and apiculate, white spotted with chestnut-brown, bright yellow on the 
disc ; column arching, with a pair of jagged toothed wings. 
ODoNTOGLOssUM ALEXANDRA OUTRAMII, supra. 
The large number of varieties of Odontoglossum Alexandre which have been 
brought to this country from their native wilds is most wonderful, but we are 
told that the numbers are so much diminished that it is now a difficult matter 
to gather together a fair consignment, so that in less than thirty years our 
collectors have caused .a dearth in the land where, before, abundance prevailed; 
still the extent of ground over which the species exists is very great, and good 
varieties are still likely to reward the search of the energetic collector, moreover, 
every small plant as well as the larger ones should be grown and bloomed, as we 
have noted some very excellent forms spring from small pieces which had never 
given an intimation of flowering before. ‘The reason why it is the small pieces so 
often produce unexpected results is not far to reach and to solve; the larger plants 
which are flowering when the traveller finds them, if anything special, will be marked 
as a matter of course, and their records come home with them; but it is the 
smaller pieces in the neighbourhood gathered as makeweights that have no records: 
these are the plants which, in all probability, are seedlings from fine flowering plants, 
and which may produce many varieties, perhaps, of superior merit, and hence a 
district where fine forms have been found, will, in all probability, be samous vo 
good varieties for many years. The variety we here introduce to our readers is a 
charmingly spotted form, and is one which we received through the kindness hd 
_A. Wilson, Esq., of Westbrook, Sheffield, who has previously sent us some fine varieties 
of this species; this one is named in compliment to Mr. A. Outram, who ‘has 
represented our firm for upwards of twenty years, and has had the ee 
of inspecting most of the best collections in cultivation, both of Orchids _ ngs 
plants, which has given him a good practical knowledge of plants in general. : 
