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ODONTOGLOSSUM VUYLSTEKEANUM. 



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Plate 334.] 



JVative of JVew Grenada. 



Epiphytal, 

 furrowed with 



bearing 

 ing 



age. 



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Pseudobidbs stout ova], compressed, " smooth when youno-, b 



ccomino- 



inches long, an 



Leaves ensiform, acute, a foot to eighteen 

 several accessory leaves from the base of the bulb.' Scape lateral, terminat- 



in a many-flowiired raceme of flowers of 



three to four inches 



great 



beauty. 



across 



Flowers spreading, from 



sejKiIs lanceolate, slightly undulate ; petals similar 



shape to the sepals, but more undulated, coarsely toothed and fringed, ;ill of 

 rich nankeen-yellow, the dorsal sepal 



cuspidate, fimbriated on the edges, and much undulated, white, bearing 



Column ornamented with 



in 

 a 



being 



of pale yellow, . the crest deep yellow. 



blotched with pale yellow ; lip obovate, 



a few spots 



pectmate wings. 



a pair of broad 



Odontoglossum Vtjylstekeanum, Reichenhach JiL, Gardeners' Chronicle, xx\l, 

 1884- p. 7; Williams, Orchid -Grower's Manual, 6 ecL, p. 469. .' 



It affords us 



pleasure to introduce this most rare,, and 



distinct Odontoglot 



to the readers of the Album. As will be seen by a reference to our Plate, it 



when associated with such kin'ds as 0. Alexandres (crispum), 



form 



s a 



grand contrast 



O. Pescatorei, and other 

 who have taste in 



light-flow^ered varieties. 



arranofmij 



The greatest pleasure to those 

 these most beautiful flowers, is to command the 

 different forms and colours^ and to so blend them together, that they produce a 

 grand and harmonious display. Visitors to an Orchid house are often surprised at 



colours and beautiful forms of these flowers, and 



manner in wliich 



gorgeous 



rough 



the arrangement of the 



at the great want of taste too often visible, through the 



they are frequently set up. If this subject were more studied by growers of 



Orchids, we should find more admirers of these plants, as pcoi)le of taste admire 



beauty of arrangement and variety of colour equally as quick a.s health and 



cleanliness, and there are no plants which can produce such gorgeous effects as 



Orchids, when associated with plants of elegant foliage, such as Cocos Wedelliana, 



Geqnoma gracilis, and other Palms, the various species of Maiden-hair Ferns 



(Adiantum), and other choice small-fronded kinds. 



Odontoglossum Vuylstekeanum is a beautiful evergreen species, with bulbs about 



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three inches high, and light green 



foliage. 



The spike attains to a 



length of 



about 



across. 



numerous flowers, which are individually about four inches 

 The blossoms are sulphur- coloured, with a few blotches on the odd sepal; 



eighteen inches, bearing 



the lateral sepals and the lip are of a deep, rich, dazzling 



orange-colour. 



It 



bloo 



ms in 



the months of April and May, and continues in beauty for six weeks. 



