ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI VEITCHIANUM. 
[PLaTE 68. ] 
Native of New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs roundish or bluntly ovate, slightly-ribbed, about an inch 
high, diphyllous. Leaves strap-shaped or lorate-oblong, narrowed both to the base 
and apex, six inches long, of a deep green colour. Peduncle ses. from the 
base of the pseudobulb, a foot in height in the only specimen which has yet 
flowered, bearing a raceme of about half-a-dozen flowers rather closely placed back to 
back at its upper end, with minute bracts at the base of their pedicels. lowers two 
and a half inches across, the most beautiful which have yet appeared amongst the forms 
of this species; sepals oblong acute, over an inch in length, pure white, marked 
with two or three transverse curved bars of the richest crimson-purple or wine-purple ; 
petals broadly ovate apiculate, slightly wavy, white, more irregularly transversely 
blotched than the sepals with the same rich purple colour; lip undulated at the 
edge, heart-shaped at the base, contracted in the middle, dilated and cuspidate - at 
the apex, white with a few purple spots round the basal lobes, the disk including 
the contracted parts bright yellow, furnished on each side with a flat lacerated 
appendage streaked with red, having a pair of parallel plates between, and bearing 
a few deep red spots. Colwmn with short lacerated wings. 
OpontocLossum Pxscatorer Verrcntanum, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
N.S., xvii, 588; Moore, Florist and Pomologist, 1882, 76. 
There is no doubt that Odontoglossum Pescatorei is one of the most beautiful 
species of this extensive and exceedingly beautiful genus of Orchids. Its flowers 
borne in fine branching panicles, are most pleasing in their form and character, and 
of a chaste and lovely whiteness, besides which the plant is one of the most 
free-growing of the Odontoglots. There are in our collections many forms of this 
species, and most of them are well worthy of cultivation, the flowers being for the 
most part good in shape and of a pure white, which is a colour generally sought 
after by those who have a keen taste for floral beauty. A hundred of these gems 
ean be cultivated in a small space, and they can now be purchased at so cheap a 
rate that they are within reach of everyone who can afford to erect a small house ; 
and being really cool Orchids they require but little fire heat at any time, and 
none whatever during the summer months. 
The variety, Veitchianum, which we now introduce to our readers, bears most 
charmingly and wonderfully spotted flowers, as will be seen from the accompanying 
plate. It bloomed last spring for the first time in the fine collection of Orchids 
belonging to Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, who imported it with many 
thousands of plants referrible to this specific type, and amongst them many 
