ODONTOGLOSSUM CERVANTESII. 
[PLaTE 167. ] 
Native of Mexico. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs short, ovate, angular, clustered, monophyllous. Leaves 
oblong acute, narrowed into a short channelled footstalk. Scape radical, few-flowered, 
with long equitant, acute, brownish, membranaceous sheathing bracts. Flowers two 
and a half inches across, white, or more or less deeply uta with pink, beautifully 
marked in the centre; sepals membranaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute, white with a 
streak of rosy purple up the centre; petals broadly ovate, bluntish, somewhat 
unguiculate, about twice as broad as the sepals, pure white, both sepals and petals 
marked near the base with close-set concentrically arranged transverse bars of 
brownish crimson, on a yellowish green ground; lip ovate and slightly cordate, 
acute, white, with a fleshy cup-shaped downy stalk, having in front a yellow crest 
consisting of a double tooth, in advance of which stand a pair of long hairy 
processes. Colwmn white, downy, with large rounded ears. 
Opoytoctossum Crrvantesu, La Lave and Lexarza Novorwm Vegetabilium 
Deseriptiones, ii. 34; Lindley, Botanical Register, 1845, t. 36; Id., Paston's 
Flower Garden, i., t. 15: Pacton, Magazne of Botany, xii. 193; Illustration 
ae ticole, t. 12; Moore, Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants, art. Odontoglossum, 
We now bring before our readers one of the oldest of the Odontoglots. We 
have grown it for many years, and it still ranks as one of the prettiest and most 
distinct members of this lovely genus. It is small growing, but very free 7 
producing its showy flowers; and it is one that takes up but little space. It 1s, 
in fact, always an interesting plant, and lasts a long while in bloom in 4 cool 
house, which is a great recommendation to it. There are several other species like 
it in growth, and which flower in the same style, such as O. Lossu majus and 
O. membranacewm, and some other beautiful forms. 
Our drawing was taken from a plant in the fine ‘collection of W. Thompson, 
Esq., The Grange, Walton, Stone, Staffordshire, where Odontoglots and other Orchids 
are very successfully cultivated under the care of Mr. Stevens, the gardener. 
glossum Cervantesii is a dwarf evergreen plant, with small angular 
pseudobulbs, and light green foliage. The sepals and petals are white, densely 
barred with reddish brown at the base, the markings being arranged in a contentrical 
manner. There seems to be considerable variation in the plants, the ground colour, 
m some, being white, as in our figure, and in some, more OF less tinted with pink 
