ODONTOGLOSSUM LUTEO-PURPUREUM 
MAGNIFICUM. 
[PLATE 254.] 
Native of New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs stout, oval, compressed, furrowed, two to three inches 
long, with a pair of leaves from the and accessory leaves from the base. 
Leaves ensiform acute, two feet in length and an inch and a quarter broad, deep 
green, narrowed to the base where they are folded. Scape lateral, . issuing from 
the axil of an accessory leaf, two to three feet long, spreading, terminating in 
a raceme of numerous expanded flowers which are large and remarkably showy. 
Flowers spreading, four inches across, and about the same in depth; sepals lanceo- 
late, entire or slightly toothed or undulated at the edge, of a rich deep chestnut- 
brown, except about half an inch at the tip, which is yellow; petals similar in 
form but toothed as well as wavy at the edge, deep rich chestnut-brown for 
about two-thirds of their length, this colour brokea up into unequal sections by 
about two transverse and two longitudinal bars of yellow; lip obovate cuspidate, 
fimbriate at the edge, contracted towards’ the base, with a long multifidly pectinate 
deepish yellow erest on the disk, marked on each side with a row of small trans- 
verse brown spots, the fore part of the lip palish, or sulphur-yellow, and the base 
bearing in front of the disk a transverse roundish oblong blotch of deep chestnut- 
brown. Column with a pair of broad pale yellow pectinate wings. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM LUTEO-PURPUREUM MAGNIFICUM, Williams & Moore, supra. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM HYSTRIX MAGNIFICUM, of gardens. 
This variable species was first discovered by M. Linden, in the dense forests 
of Quindiu, at an elevation of 8,000 feet, whence it was sent by him to Europe. 
‘It was subsequently found by Mr. Weir, when travelling for the Royal Horticultural 
Society, about 100 miles south of Bogota; Messrs. Low & (Co. also imported the 
plant through their collector, Mr. Blunt, and several varieties differing essentially 
one from the other, flowered out of this last importation and were named respectively 
O. hystrix by Mr. Bateman, and O. radiatum by Professor Reichenbach. Since then, 
however, connecting links have been flowered. 
Most of the Odontoglossums are found in New Grenada, at an altitude of from 
7,000 feet to 8,000 feet, so that they are difficult to obtain, and expensive to bring 
down to the seaports for shipment to our shores. The accompanying illustration was 
taken from a fine specimen in the select collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., 
Woodlands, Streatham. It was a very fine spike, and we much regret that we 
