ODONTOGLOSSUM KRAMERI. 
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[Puate 40. | 
Native of .Costa Rica. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs nearly orbicular, much compressed, ancipitous or sharply 
two-edged, one and‘a-half inch in diameter, pale green. Leaves solitary, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, keeled, six to eight inches long, one and a-half to two inches broad, 
light green, with a smodth even surface. Scapes radical, four to six inches long, 
shorter than the leaves, three to five flowered, drooping or ascending, flexuous, pale 
green, with small appressed bracts and longish peduncles. Flowers one and a- 
inch or more across, and delicately coloured; sepals oblong acute, rosy lilac with a 
white margin; petals about equalling the sepals in size, and similar to them in form 
and colour; lip with a short stout neck, deeply hollowed in front, with two erect 
calli, the lateral lobes semi-ovate, narrow, deflexed, the much larger middle lobe three- 
fourths of an inch broad, roundish reniform, emarginate, bearing at the base a pair 
of erect lamelle, the unguis or neck yellow spotted with red, the front lobe deep 
rosy lilac, marked near its base with two semi-circular bands of white and purplish 
rose. Column short, thick, white in front. 
OpontocLossum Kramert, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners Chronicle, 1868, 98, 
with woodeut; Hooker fil., Botanical Magazine, t. 5778; Bateman, Monograph of 
Odontoglossum, t. 24; Williams, Orchid Growers’ Manual, 5 ed., 236; Floral 
Magazine, t. 406-(as O. Kremeri.) 
This is a most charming small-growing Orchid, with remarkably pretty delicately 
coloured flowers. It is at the present time very rare in collections, and, in fact, had 
become almost lost t6 cultivation, but fortunately during the last year a small number 
of plants was imported into this country and distributed. Our drawing was made 
from a plant which formed part of this importation, and which produced its chastely 
oloured blossoms in the Victoria Nursery. Many years ago’ we remember to have 
seen a fine lot imported by the late George Ure Skinner, Esq., but since then it has 
until last year disappeared from our notice. We are, however, glad to see it again 
Making its appearance in our Orchid-houses; for, as ‘will be seen by reference to our 
illustration, it is a plant of a most distinct and pleasing character, and will be a 
teal acquisition to the group of Odontoglots, of which numerous highly popular 
Species are at present in cultivation. 
Odontoglossum Krameri is a plant of compact-growing habit, with small flattened 
light green pseudobulbs, each producing from the top a solitary leaf of a pale _green colour. 
e plant generally attains about ten inches in height. The flower spikes or peduncles 
are freely produced from the base of the pseudobulbs after they have completed their 
