ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI. 
[Puate 175.] 
Native of New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs stout, ovate, slightly ribbed, diphyllous. Leaves lorate 
acute, plane, narrowed to the base, keeled behind.  Peduneles springing from the 
axl of accessory leaves, supporting an erect, diffuse, many-flowered panicle, two to 
three feet long, of numerous ~ char mingly-tinted blossoms, which have small ovate 
_Sctarious bracts at the base of their pedicels. Flowers rather large and of semi- 
_ transparent texture, white, delicately flushed with rosy purple, and having a yellow 
blotch at the base of the lip; sepals ovate oblong, apiculate, slightly undulated, 
reading, over an inch long, white, with a bar of delicate rosy purple down the 
centre of each; petals similar to the sepals in outline, but much broader, and more 
distinctly undulated, pure white ; lip white, stained with yellow at the base, cordate- 
oblong, subpandurate, cuspidate, the margin crispy, the base denticulate, the disk 
g two broad lacerated lateral appendages, which are closely striated with crimson, 
and between them a yellow crest, consisting of two divergent lamell, which are 
thed at the apex and marked by one or two small red spots. Column white, 
h a pair of short lacerated wings, which are stained with crimson. 
OpowToeLossum Prscatoret, Linden, Catalogue; Id., Pescatorea, t. 1; Lindley, 
Paxton’s Flower Garden, iii., t. 90; Id., Folia Orchidacea, art. Odontoglossum, 
% 56; Lemaire, Jardin Fleuriste, iv., t. 331; Bateman, Monograph of Odonto- 
mt. 5; Warner, Select Orchidaceous Plants, i, t. 2% 
OpoytocLossum NOBILE, Leichenbach fil., Linnea, xxii., 850. 
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| There is no doubt the species we now bring before our subscribers is one of 
Most useful and beautiful of Orchids, one of those which every pepson can 
does admire for the intrinsic charms to be found in its fascinating panicles of 
; The blossoms of this species vary comparatively little from each other, 
“xcept as regards their spotting and the form of the individual flower or its parts, 
> : ‘eg are larger-flowered than others, and some have more freely branched 
ay : We have, indeed, gained some few new forms during the last two years, 
Voip emticent additions they are, especially that named Odontoglossum Pe emg 
68), 5% a splendid variety, already figured in the Orchid Album (vol. oc 
a 3 other of similar character called O. Pescatorei Schriderianum, of oe 
—_ Sive an illustration at some future time. 
_* drawing of the typical Odontoglossum Pescatorei was taken from a a 
| Ro 2 va Well-grown collection of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, at mit oe 
ag Highness is a great admirer of Orchids and other good . plants, 
