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ODONTOGLOSSUM NEVADENSE. 



[Plate 131.] 



JSI'ative of Xew Grenada 



Epiphytal. Pseudohulhs large 

 and two inches broad, diphylloi 



oblonff-ovate, compressed, about three inches h.^ 



& ' — X ' 



Leaves lorate-lanceolate, keeled 



very 



miicl 



i 



d to the base, of 



a dark green. 



Scapes radical, bearing drooping rncemes 



:d 



'>^als 



the centre, elcfir 



of from twelve to fifteen blossoms. .Flowers large and pleasingly 

 spreading in a narrow triangle, lanceolate, slightly grooved in 

 bright chestnut, ,w^ith a narrow even edge of yellow; petals smaller, laiiceolate, 

 spreading, an inch and a half long, of the same colour as the sopnls but with more 

 distinct yellow tips, and about two forked bars of a pale yellow colour at the base, 

 opposite the lateral lobes of the lip, the margin slightly wavy; lip white, tliree- 

 lobed, the lateral lobes erect, crescent-shaped, spotted with chestnut, the bruaji 

 rounded front lobe deeply fringed, cuspidato-acuminate, the base cuneate, channelled, 

 the disk with a bifid crest, and three obcuneate conical brown spots. /-^''^^^ 

 erect, half-an-inch long, galeate, spotted with red, and having two short horn-iike 

 lateral auricles. 



Odok 



Mend 



Id. X 



NEVADENSE, ReicJienhach jil 



MS. 



m 



IL 



Linde 



ac 



Orchidacea, ii., t. 191, figs. 1, 2 



Id. Gardeners' Ch 



N.s. XV., 136 ; Andre, L' Illustration II 



3 ser., t. 45. 



The Odontogl 



ude 



i s a very 



beautiful species which w^as fii*st discovered in 1868, by Mr. G 



distinct and also a very rare 



Wallis, 



It is not 



and 



wh 



g for Mr. Linden in the Sierra Nevada of New Grenad 



ftni 



but 



ith, as there are 



y 



few plants of it in cultivation, so far as we 



kn 



we may hope that our 



•getic 



collectors will be fortuu 



^'ith and send home a further supply of so 



plant 



W 



gh to meet 



are indebted to 



Dr. Bodd 



of Gand, Belgium 



w 



preparing our illustration, the 



for the materials 

 from which our plate was 



hich have been w^^^ >" 



copied havinjr l"*'i' 



grown 

 which 



his fine collection of Orchids 



this was the finest spccim 



of th 



kind 



I>r. Boddaert 



we have seen, and w^as, when in bloom 



an 



of attraction 



f which 



might weU be 



proud 



In this Odontoglossum nevadensfi we have a 



pact-growing 



evergreen 



'^th small pseudobulbs 



and 



height 



Dionths. 

 yellow : 



light green 



foli 



O 



it 



grow 



abou t ten 



stpefies, 



hcs in 



and produces its spikes of elegant 



fiowers during 



the spring and summer 



The 



the lip 



is 



pals and petals are 

 w-hite, its side lobes 



ddish-browTi, margi 



ned 



and 



pped 



potted with bro^v-n inside 



It 



th 

 about 



8« weeks in beauty 



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