ODONTOGLOSSUM TRIUMPHANS AUREUM. 
[PuaTE 460.] 
Native of the United States of Colombia. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs oblong-ovate, compressed, furrowed with age, some three 
or four inches long, and rich green in colour. Leaves in pairs from top o 
pseudobulb, ensiform, about a foot in length, persistent, and rich green. Scape 
arising from the base of the fully grown pseudobulb, attaining some two or three 
feet in height, and arching, bearing a raceme of large and showy flowers, which 
are each furnished with a small triangular bract at their base ; this, however, is 
very fugacious. Flowers some three inches across, somewhat fleshy in texture ; 
the anterior portion, leaving just a narrow border of pure white; a few yellow 
spots about the crest, which is yellow, with two diverging teeth. Column creamy 
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OPONTOGLOSSUM TRIUMPHANS AUREUM, supra. 
OponTocLossum TRIuMPHANS, Reichenbach Ji in Bonplandia, ii, +t. 99. 
Pescatorea, 1860, t. 46. Williams’ Orchid Album, ii., t. 58. Illustration Horticole, 
1869, t. 609. Florist and Pomologist, 1877, t. 217.  Bateman’s Monograph of 
Odontoglossum, t. 23. Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, p. 466. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM SPECTATISSIMUM, Lindley, Folia Orchidacea, Art. Odontoglossum, 
aa. 
The typical Odontoglossum triumphans is one of the plants found by M. Linden, 
when plant-collecting in the neighbourhood of Pamplona, in New Grenada, just fifty 
years ago; but it was about twenty-five years after its discovery, when it first 
appeared in cultivation with Messrs. Low and Co., of Clapton. Soon after this we 
Saw some very fine dark-coloured forms in Messrs. Linden’s establishment at Brussels, 
and it is in Belgium at the present time that the specics is more largely grown 
than with us. With the English growers this plant has never reached the 
popularity which it deserves, hence there has been less notice taken of variations 
in form in this species than in many others. Nevertheless, varieties do occur 
from time to time, one of the prettiest and most distinct being that which we now 
figure, and that we are enabled to do through the kindness of A. H. Smee, Esq., 
in whose delightful garden at the Grange, Carshalton, are to be found many rare 
and beautiful plants, under the skilful management of his gardener, Mr. Cummins. 
The plant in question has little or nothing to distinguish it from the normal 
condition. It is to the flower alone that we must look for differences, which are 
at once distinct and charming, and a glance at our plate will show what an 
