ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRA: FLAVEOLUM. 
[Pate 43.] 
Native of New Grenada. 
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Kpiphytal. Pseudobulbs ovate, compressed, one or two leaved. Leaves elongate, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, of a bright green colour. Scape radical, supporting a many- 
flowered raceme (or panicle) of showy flowers, each subtended by a small ovate-oblong 
acute bract. Flowers large, differing from other known forms of the species by their 
yellow colour, about three inches across ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, slightly wavy 
at the edges, pale sulphur-yellow; petals ovate, much undulated at the margins and 
regularly toothed, of the same pale yellow as the sepals; lip oblong, the apex 
truncately rounded and cuspidate, the margins undulated and fimbriated, and the 
basal angles rounded and produced, all of a bright yellow colour, marked near the 
centre with about three conspicuous round reddish brown spots, and at the base with 
fine radiating lines of the same colour, in front of which are two divergent bars or 
crests. Column areuate, club-shaped, pale yellow behind, dull brown on the inner 
face, and furnished with the usual toothed wings at the edge. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRE FLAVEOLUM, supra. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM FLAVEOLUM, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
N.S. xiii., 41, 2392. | 
This very distinct variety is one which will become very useful in the decoration 
of our cool Orchid houses, for as the white-flowered varieties of Odontoglossum 
Alexandre and other species are now so numerous, that now before us, being yellow, 
will produce a good contrast, which we must have in order to make a pleasing 
display. Our drawing was taken from a fine example in the collection of G. gees 
Esq., Pickering Lodge, Timperley, near Manchester. We may add that Mr. Hardy’s 
is one of the largest and best collections in the North of England, since he spares 
neither trouble nor expense in procuring the best varieties that can be obtained. As 
2% proof of this we may refer to the recent Manchester Whitsuntide flower shows, 
where Orchids are one of the prominent features, and where Mr. Hardy’s collection 
has frequently taken high honours. a 
Odontoglossum Alexandre flaveolum is a compact free-growing plant, like 
O. Alexandre itself, and produces fine drooping flower spikes which we have seen 
bearing fifteen expanded bright creamy yellow flowers, these continuing in beauty for 
Several weeks. This variety is all the more useful because of its blooming in the 
winter months when so many of our white Odontoglots are also in flower. The 
plant requires the same treatment as others of its class. It was found growing on 
the branches of trees intermixed with Odontoglossum Alexandre, and no doubt, as is 
