ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISTATELLUM. 
[PLavTE 66. } 
Native of the United States of Columbia. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs ovate, one and a half to two inches long, pale green. 
Leaves one or two from each pseudobulb, ligulate-oblong, acute, narrowed to the 
base, keeled. Peduncles radical, terminating in a showy raceme of flowers, and 
ished below with lanceolate pale brown bracts, smaller triangular bracts being 
produced at the base of the pedicels. Flowers two and a half inches across, attractive 
in colour and marking; sepals and petals subhastate, broadish oblong-ovate above, 
acuminate, yellow, with a few large rich chestnut-brown blotches; lip short, narrow, 
the blade oblong-panduriform, apiculate, the margin much undulated and minutely 
denticulate, yellow at the base and chestnut-brown in front, bearing at the base of 
the disk subulate radiate calli, consisting of about six teeth on each side, and in 
front of these two rhomboid serrated lamelle, all these parts yellowish, streaked (and 
the keels bordered) with chestnut-red. Column trigonous, arcuate, with violet spots 
in front of its hase, and chestnut-red wings. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISTATELLUM, Leichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., X., 
716 ; .ddixviis 148 
Oponrociossum Leumanni, F. C. Lehmann in litteris—fide Reichenbach. 
The Odontoglossum cristatellum is described by Prof. Reichenbach as a near 
relative of O. cristatum. It is, without doubt, a very rare plant, one sthat has 
flowered in but few collections, and is supposed to be a natural hybrid. It is not 
perhaps so showy as some other Odontoglots, but still it is one that is quite worth 
cultivating. Our sketch was taken from a well-grown plant in _the collection of 
O. Schneider, Esq., Cromwell Range, Fallowfield, Manchester. This gentleman, who 
has an excellent collection of Orchids, has houses set apart for the various kinds, 
and we may say that our visit there gave us very great satisfaction, as . ea: 
saw many well-grown plants of species that are usually found difficult to teeliouas 
Odontoglossum cristatellum is a compact evergreen plant, growing from = 
inches to a foot in height. It is furnished with light green foliage and produces ; 
its flower-spikes at different periods of the year, according to the time of a 
completion of its growth ; moreover, it lasts for several weeks in bloom. The p . 
requires to be grown in the cool Odontoglossum house, with the same nent 
as O. Alexandre, as regards soil, water, and temperature, fire-heat being always 
avoided if possible in summer. ‘The less fire-heat the plants receive the more 
successful will be their growth, though, of course, in cold weather, some little fire 
