ODONTOGLOSSUM YOUNGII. 
[PLATE 406.] 
Native of Mexico. 
Epiphytal.  Pseudobulbs clustered, sub-rotund, compressed, suleate, rough on 
the surface, an ronzy green in colour, bearing on the apex a single leaf, which 
1s some five inches or more in length, by about an inch in breadth, lanceolate, 
acute, carinate beneath, and rich deep green. Scape radical, much longer than 
the leaves, furnished with numerous oblong-acute bracts, and bearing from one 
to three or more flowers, which are somewhat thick and fleshy in texture and 
nearly two inches across. Sepals oblong-acute, slightly incurved, the ground colour 
pale yellow, heavily marked with transverse spotted bars of dark chocolate; petals 
much broader than the sepals, ovate, acute, the ground a pale yellow, which is 
marked by large spots of rich deep chocolate; Jip transversely reniform, clawed at 
the base, the margin entire, and undulated, white, streaked’ with short lines of 
reddish brown, and bearing a pair of large dark chocolate spots in the centre; disc 
fleshy, yellow, more or less streaked with reddish brown. - Column short and stout, 
reddish violet. 
OpontocLtossum Younan, Gower, in The Garden, xxxvii., p. 84. 
We have much pleasure in laying a portrait of this, which appears to us 
to be a new and distinct species of Odontoglossum, before our subscribers. The 
plant originated in the collection of R. Young, Esq., Linnet Lane, Liverpool, and 
after whom it is worthily named. It is a very distinct plant, much more 80 than 
Some we are frequently enabled to lay before our readers, and we trust it will 
flourish and flower yet more freely than it has hitherto done. Some who have 
seen the plant in flower ascribe .a hybrid origin to it, supposing it to have been 
derived from Odontoglossum Rossii crossed with some other species. Our drawing 
was made from the only specimen that we know to exist, which is in the 
collection of R. Young, Esq., Linnet Lane, Liverpool, from whom we received 
the plant for figuring. This plant was introduced by Messrs. Shuttleworth & Co., 
who have kindly given us the following information respecting its introduction with 
a batch of O. Rossii :— : 
“With regard to the origin of Odontoglossum Youngii, we have been looking 
over all our old letters from the collector, but cannot find the exact locality ; 
however, that matters very little. A few years since, if we remember rightly, 
one of our collectors wrote, having seen some yellow O. Rossii, which he called 
O. Rossii aureum, and of which he forwarded a small box containing about 
sixty plants; they arrived in very bad condition, and we received only 
about four alive. We did not think much of it, until twelve months later 
