ODONTOGLOSSUM GALEOTTIANUM. 
[Puate 423. ] 
Native of Mexico. 
Epiphytal. Psewdobulbs roundish-ovate, compressed, plump and smooth when 
young, becoming furrowed and wrinkled with age, green slightly suffused with 
ferrugineous brown at the base, monophyllous. Leaves oblong acute, membranaceous, 
dark green. Scape rising with the young growth, three or more flowered. Flowers 
upwards of two inches across; sepals oblong-acute, white, the lateral ones sparingly 
dotted at the base with purplish magenta; petals ovate, much broader than the sepals, 
white, and like them dotted at the base with purplish magenta; Jip large, somewhat 
cordate, acute, with two fleshy crests at the base, white, bearing a few streaks of 
yellow at the crests. 
OponToGLossuM GALEotT1anum, A. Richard, Orchids of Mexico, tab, ined, p. 27, 89; 
Lindley, Folia Orchidacea, No. 22; Reichenbach, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1870, p. 39; 
Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, p. 440. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 1845, 
Series iii, vol. 3. 
The present plant is an old species first discovered about 1844, but it was not until 
1870 that it was introduced in a living state to our gardens; about this time it 
was introduced by us with a batch of Odontoglossum Cervantesit, and the fact of its being 
so scarce induced Professor Reichenbach to presume it to be a natural hybrid; but we 
imagine there are plenty of small-growing kinds ensconced in quiet nooks of the 
mountains of Mexico and other parts of the American Continent, to which 
the steps of no collector have yet penetrated, so that we may reasonably hope for 
fresh forms and faces new when these countries become more familiar to the plant 
collector. No better illustration can be given of this than the finding recently 
of that grand species O. Harryanum, and still later, the beautiful little O. Youngii, 
figured in these pages at t. 406. O. Galeottianwm has also been introduced by the 
Messrs. Low and Co., of the Clapton Nurseries, as well as by ourselves, so that we 
may live in expectation of a batch of it being found by some lucky collector at no 
distant date. The plant here depicted was grown and flowered in the gardens of 
J. Statter, Esq., of Stand Hall, Whitefield, near Manchester, where every care and 
attention is bestowed upon all plants, be they ever so humble or grand, by Mr. 
Johnson, the successful gardener in charge of this collection. 
Odontoglossum Galeottianum is a dwarf evergreen species belonging to the group 
of which O. Cervantesii may be taken as the type; it has roundish ovate 
pseudobulbs, and it has hitherto but produced a two-flowered raceme, but as the 
