ODONTOGLOSSUM POLLETTIANUM. 
[PLATE 280.] 
Native of New Grenada. ) 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs flask-shaped, smooth, about three inches high. Leaves 
strap-shaped, acuminate, and deep green in colour. Scape rising from the base of 
the pseudobulbs when mature, bearing a dense raceme of bright coloured flowers. 
Sepals and petals lanceolate, acuminate, nearly equal, the latter somewhat the 
broadest, and more deeply undulate at the edges, white, suffused with purple on 
the under side, tinged with rose towards their apices, and profusely spotted and 
blotched with reddish brown. Lip oblong, cuspidate, the undulated edges recurved, 
giving it a somewhat hastate appearance; white, with a large | and conspicuous 
reddish brown blotch in the centre, whilst the crest is stained with orange-yellow. 
Column toothed. 
Oponroctossum Poxierrianum, Hort.; Williams, Orchid-Grower's Manual, 6 ed., 
 ~p. 458. . 
This appears to be another of the numerous natural hybrid Odontoglossums 
. _ which have had for their parents O. gloriosum and O. erispum (Alexandre), and it 
is an extremely handsome and distinct form, as a glance at our illustration will 
verify, although other forms which somewhat resemble it in colour have from time 
to time been imported. This variety first flowered in the collection of H. M. 
Pollett, Esq., at Bickley, after whom it is named, and was exhibited by him before 
the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, in February, 1884, when 
it deservedly obtained a First Class Certificate of Merit, as a new and desirable 
Plant. Mr. Pollett has had the good fortune to flower many fine and distinct 
new forms of Odontoglossums, more especially amongst the spotted-flowered section. 
The illustration here given was taken by our artist from Mr. Pollett’s original and 
Unique plant, and may be accepted as a faithful portrait. The plant appears to be 
(like the majority of hybrids) of a robust and vigorous habit of growth, and a 
profuse bloomer. Odontoglossum Pollettianum is an evergreen plant with stout 
pseudobulbs some three inches in height, and bright green strap-shaped leaves, and 
It produces its fine racemes of flower from the mature growth ; the sepals a 
Petals are white, tinged with purple on the under side, heavily blotched _ 
Spotted with brown in the upper part; the lip is wedge-shaped, white, a a 
dark brown blotch in the centre, whilst the crest is orange. This plant . re 
Se Showy flowers during the months of February and March, lasts ites ae 
in bloom, and is a charming addition to the kinds which are available for 
Winter and early spring decoration. 
