height of eighteen inches, terminating in a spike of ten or more flowers. The 
sepals and petals are brownish purple, veined with a darker brown, and the lip is 
magenta-rose, veined with a darker magenta, the throat being white. It blooms in 
September and October. 
Being a terrestrial Orchid it is best grown in a pot, with good fibrous loam, 
leaf soil, and sharp river sand; a little charcoal should be mixed with the soil, 
and good drainage is essential, since a moderate supply of water during the growing 
season is needed. When at rest only just enough water should be given to keep 
the bulbs plump. We have found it: do well in the Cattleya house, placed as 
near the light as possible, but shaded from the hot sun. The leaves being thin 
they are apt to scorch. It is propagated by dividing the pseudobulbs, leaving one 
old pseudobulb along with the new one. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM TRIUMPHANS.—We have received, through the post, from 
J. Gordon, Esq., Aikenhead, Cathcart, near Glasgow, flowers of two distinct varieties 
of this beautiful species, varying both in size and in hue. One variety was of large 
size, and very bright in colour, the sepals and petals being of a clear golden 
yellow, barred and spotted with brownish-crimson, and the lip white, with the throat 
yellow, and the apical portion brownish-crimson. The other variety was smaller, and 
as Mr. T. Hogg, the gardener, informs us, was from a _pseudobulb with two 
spikes bearing twenty-nine expanded flowers; in this the sepals and petals were 
nearly all brownish-crimson, with very little golden yellow, the lip white, with a 
large irregular blotch of brownish-crimson on the antical portion.—B. 8S. W. 
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