ODONTOGLOSSUM PESOATOREI 



GEEMINYANUM. 



[Plate 305.] 



Kative of Jfew Grenada. 



Epiphytal. Pseudohulhs stout, ovate, smooth and flattened at the edgcs^ 

 upwards of two inches high, deep green freckled with dull purple, changing to 

 reddish brown with age, and then slightly wrinkled, diphyllous. Leaves strap- 

 shaped, flat,, narrowed at the base, keeled behind, and deep green, much shorter. 

 than the erect many-flowered panicle. Scape axillary, produced when growth is 

 mature, two to three feet high, much-branched and many- flo were d ; bracts minute, 

 ovate. Floivers membraneous ; sepals spreading, ovate-oblong, terminating in a small 

 point, nearly smooth at the edges, white suff"used with rose, and sparingly spotted 

 with rosy purple ; petals spotted similar to the sepals, but much broader, white 

 and prettily crisp on the edges ; lip heart-shaped, oblong, contracted in the middle 

 (sub-pandurate), slightly toothed at the base and notched on the margin, white ; the disc is 

 furnished with a pair of broad lacerated appendages streaked with rosy purple ; crest 

 yellow. Column white, furnished with two short lacerated wings. 



Odontoglossum Pescatorei, LiiiderCs Catalogue ; Id. Pescatorea, t. 1 ; Lindley, 

 in PaxtorCs Flower-Garden, iii., t. 90 ; Id, Folia Orchidacea, art. Odonto- 

 glossum, No. 56: L' Illustration Horticole, t. 407; Flore des Serres, t. 1G24; 



Lemaire, Jardin Fleuriste, iv., t. 331 ; Bateman, Monograph of Odontoglossum, 

 t. 5 ; Warner's Select Orchidaceous Plants, i., t. 23 ; Orchid Album, iv., t. 175 ; 

 The Garden, 1882, t. 330; Williams, Orchid-Grower's Manual, 6 ed., p. 456. 



Odontoglossum nobile, Reichenhach fil., Linncea, xxii., 850. 



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Odontoglossum Pescatorei Germinyanum, Williams, supra. 



We here introduce to the notice of our subscribers one of the most splendid 

 varieties of Odontoglossum Pescatorei that we have seen. It is a lovely form, 

 and a great acquisition, as distinct varieties of this beautiful species are not 

 numerous. A grand variety, named 0. Pescatorei Veitchianum, was figured by us 

 a few years ago in volume 'II., plate 68, which is also very distinct, having 

 splendid blotches on the sepals and petals ; there are also other varieties of great 

 merit which have flowered recently, and which we hope to figure in due course : 

 amongst them we may note a very large form having blossoms of a pure white, 

 with the exception of a little spotting on the upper part of the lip; the flowers 

 of which are both large and of good substance. 



Notwithstanding the large importations of 0. Pescatorei which have arrived in 

 this country during the past few years, it is a matter for surprise that so few 



