ODONTOGLOSSUM ANDERSONIANUM 



SPLENDENS. 



[Plate 292.] 



Jsfative of Js^ew Grenada, 



Ep 



Pseudohulh 



s 



pair of 



tered, pyriform 



on tlie summit, 

 acute, 



costate, about three inches high, 



at the 



and usually two sheathing ones 



Learin^ 



base. Leaves ligulate, acute, carinate beneath, some twelve inches long, and j 

 gree "' ' ' . — - . 



in a disticl 



Scape radical, raceme about two feet long, nod 



The / 



ed 



manner 



and petals about equal, ovate-oblong, acute, and 

 ghtly crisp at the margins (narrower than in 0. crispum), white, tinged "with 



the b 



potted and blotched with bright 



piculate 



fr 



brown ; Up pandur 



toothed on the ed 



brown, yellow at the bas( 

 each side with dark brow 



wh 



it is 



v^ 



cuneate at 

 wliite^ lower portion cliestniit 



d 



aked with crimson lines, and spotted on 



like 



yellow, crest 



iding 



a p 



of 



pr 



Column brown in front, winofs and antlier-case wliite- 



Odontoglossum AjstdePuSONIANum, Relchenhach Jil., in Gardeners^ Chronicle, 1868, 

 p. 599; Id., 1872, p. 41; Orchid Album, i., t. 35; Floral Magazine, 2 ser., 

 t. 45 ; Williams, Orchid-Grower's Manual, 6 ed., p 423. 



Odontoglossum Andersonianum splendens, Williams, supra. 



The form of Odontoglossum," named 



Professor Reichenbach after 



Mr. 



Anderson, who then had charge of the splendid collection of Orchids at Meadow 

 Bank, near Glasgow, was first introduced to this country by the Messrs. Low & 

 "Co., of Clapton; subsequently it was sent home by various collectors. It is a 

 supposed hybrid between O. Alexandrce (crispum) and 0. ptrastans, or O. gloriosum ; 

 but the variety whose portrait we here lay before our readers is infinitely superior 

 to the type both in the size and the brilliancy of its spotted flowers. 



Our drawing was taken from a plant in the fine collection of R. H. Measures, 



Esq., 



a 



The Woodlands, Streatliam, where numerous fine species and Tarieties of 



'Odontoglossums have bloomed for the first time. 0. Andersoniamim splendens 

 is a very free-flowering variety ; it produces long graceful racemes, and the blossoms 

 4ire set very regularly in a two-ranked manner on the spike. The sepals and 

 petals are white, tinged with rose and blotched with chestnut-brown, throat 

 yellow, lined with crimson and spotted with dark brown on each side. It blooms 



The 



during May and June, and continues 



in beauty for upwards of six weeks. 



tyj^ical form is a natural hybrid between O. Alexandrw (crispum) and O. glonosum, 

 no doubt brought about by insect agency, and in all probability both parents of 



