ODONTOGLOSSUM JOSEPHINE. 
[Pirate 188. | 
Native of New Grenada. 
Kpiphytal. Pseudobulbs clustered, oblong, compressed, pale green, diphyllous. 
Leaves broadly ligulate-oblong, acute. Scape radical, springing from the axil of 
‘accessory leaves, tinged with reddish brown, and supporting a nodding distichous 
raceme of numerous flowers. Flowers distinct and showy, the perianth stellately 
spreading, about three inches in depth, and nearly as much in breadth, white 
suffused slightly with rose in the centre, marked with bright chocolate-red spots ; 
sepals lanceolate acuminate, slightly wavy at the edge, white, with a few large 
oblong spots of chocolate-red in the lower half, the upper part unspotted; petals 
rather broader and shorter and also more undulated than the sepals, white, spotted 
with somewhat smaller and more numerous- crowded spots of chocolate-red about half 
way up, the base marked by three parallel blunt linear-clavate bars of the same 
colour; fp with the front portion deflexed, oblong, with a cordate base, an undulated 
margin, and a recurved apiculate apex; the side or basal lobes are erect, longitudinally 
striped with chestnut-red on a whitish ground; the disk is yellow, with a crest 
of five or seven radiating lamelle, with bright chestnut-red lines between, the two 
outer on each side flattened, obtuse and shorter, the centre one also shorter, whitish, 
with a club-shaped termination, the next on each side larger and deeper, forming 
a hollow or cavern between, bilobed vertically with four prominent points, the two 
upper ones rather thickened, with a smooth ridge along the top of the lamellae, the 
two lower ones ending in a blunt bifurcation; the white surface of the front or 
principal lobe of the lip is marked with about three reddish brown spots, just in 
front of the crests. Column with two deeply toothed wings at the upper end, 
prominently margined with two rounded wings below, striped and blotched with 
reddish brown, the anther-bed brown bordered with white. 
OpontToGLossum JosEPHINe, Williams, Orchid Album, iv., t. 174, in note. 
This already extensive genus of Orchids is steadily increasing in numbers, and 
mong the additions being made to it many lovely new species and varieties are 
continually coming under our notice. We are pleased to find that our persevering 
collectors .are looking after these gems to enrich our collections, and they are 
deserving of every encouragement for doing so, as the plants are of easy cultivation, 
and amateurs with small houses may cultivate them at a trifling expense, as it 
takes but little space to grow them on into good plants. Among these novel 
importations valuable species and varieties are often found, many of them no doubt 
having originated through the natural hybridisation effected by the various insects 
which frequent the flowers, and carry the pollen of one to the stigma of the other. 
