ODONTOGLOSSUM HEBRAICUM. 
[Puate 194. | 
Native of United States of Colombia. 
Kpiphytal. Pseudobulbs elongate ovate, compressed, diphyllous, with several 
accessory leaves investing their base. Leaves elongate ligulate-oblong acute, keeled, 
eight to ten inches long, of a bright green colour. Scapes radical, from the axils 
of the accessory leaves. Flowers large, upwards of three inches in breadth and 
depth, the sepals and petals stellately spreading, very pale yellow, heavily spotted 
with chestnut-brown ; sepals (dorsal) ovate-lanceolate acuminate, narrowed to the 
claw-like base, undulated at the edges, the lateral ones similar, yellow, the centre 
of the lower half with an oblong blotch of numerous moderate-sized chestnut-brown 
spots and striz, irregularly disposed ; petals also ovate-lanceolate, more elongately 
acuminate, narrowed to the base and wavy, having two small brown stripes at the 
base, otherwise of the same colour as the sepals, but the markings are rather smaller 
and more regularly disposed though oceupying about the same area; lip hastate, the 
base deeper yellow, and marked with several short radiating lines of crimson, the 
front part undulated and acuminate, with two or three large spots near the centre, 
and two smaller ones near the apex. Column short, semiterete, marked with 
chestnut-brown on the inner face, and furnished with two small angular wings: 
ODONTOGLOSSUM HEBRAICUM, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., xi., 462. 
The Odontoglots, which are already very numerous, are becoming more so every 
day, and they are generally welcomed by growers of Orchids. There are so many 
natural hybrids amongst the plants we are receiving year by year from the various 
localities, that we must suppose the insects are doing a great work in their native 
habitats, where there is ample scope for it. There is scarcely an importation now 
received, which does not bring some novelty to our notice. The seed no doubt 
germinates more frecly there, in their native haunts, as may be inferred from the 
large importations that are continually coming into this and other European countries, 
and the supply seems to increase year by year. One would think the supply would 
get exhausted, but the extent of ground which the plants inhabit and the millions 
of seeds which are scattered by the wind to different localities combine to keep 
the places of those that are brought away by our collectors continually replenished. 
We cannot think without regret of the quantities that have been lost on their way 
to Europe; but of late years our assiduous collectors have been more fortunate in 
getting them across the seas alive, in consequence, no doubt, of the means of 7 transit 
being more rapid, and the packing better understood and more expeditiously carried 
out. These conditions all combine to make it easier to get the plants over alive. 
