ODONTOGLOSSUM HEBRAICUM 
LINEOLIGERUM. 
[Puate 85.] 
Native of New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs elongate-ovate, compressed, upwards of two inches in 
height, pale green, brownish in age. Leaves, one or two springing from the apex 
of the pseudobulb, and frequently with a smaller one from its base, ligulate-oblong 
acute, nine inches to a foot in length, bright green. Scape supporting a dense 
elongated raceme of elegant flowers, radical, that is springing from the base of the 
pseudobulb. Flowers large, upwards of three inches in breadth and depth, the 
ground colour ' at first yellow, afterwards changing to creamy white, and freely 
spotted with purplish crimson ; sepals lanceolate, attenuately acuminated, pale yellow, 
marked thickly on the lower half with deep purplish crimson, in bars and elongated 
blotches, which are sometimes confluent, the edges slightly wavy ; petals similar in 
size, form, colour, and marking ; lip elongate-triangular, or narrrowing from a broad 
: e to the acuminate apex, toothed and undulated at the margin, pale yellow, 
eeper at the base, where there are placed a pair of prominent divergent crests, 
_ Yery sparingly spotted with the same colour as the sepals. Column arcuate, club- 
shaped, with the wing: toothed. 
a iad HEBRAICUM LINEOLIGERUM, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
Sell ma Plant was first flowered by Charles Winn, Esq., of the Uplands, 
ae = » near Birmingham, and was by him submitted to Professor Reichenbach, 
ott tt the name here adopted. It has also been flowered by Mr. Cypher, of 
from ay who has kindly forwarded one of its pseudobulbs for description, and 
the og Ee learn that while on the imported bulbs two leaves were developed, 
Very bee ore in this country have as yet only borne a single leaf. It is a 
hnet variety, and will make a charming companion to the already famous 
into . hebraicum, of which but few specimens have yet been introduced 
=o a. They will form welcome associates of the better forms of 
Purposes m®@, which are among the most useful of all Orchids for decorative 
e _ the best of which we hope to submit to our subscribers at some 
| me a series of authenticated figures. Among them are to be found some 
Spotted hig pure white flowers, while in others the blossoms are. beautifully 
| with a als suffused 
ction the plant now 
dontoglots, which are 
oe crimson and reddish brown, or have the sepals and pet 
“Neate rose colour. Mr. Winn, in whose fine colle 
Well was bloomed, has a very choice lot of these cool 0 
eulti 2 
L Pg by his gardener, Mr. Shields. 
