ODONTOGLOSSUM SCHLIEPERIANUM 
FLAVIDUM. 
[Puate 515.] 
Native of Costa Rica. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs compressed oblong, one and a-half to two inches high, 
diphyllous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, slightly ribbed, deep green, six to nine 
inches Jong, one and a-quarter to two inches broad. Scapes produced from the 
base of the pseudobulbs, erect or slightly nodding, eight to ten inches high, bearing 
from four to six flowers, peduncles invested at intervals with greyish imbricating 
Seales. Flowers three and a-half inches from tip to tip of petals, bright sulphur- 
yellow; sepals, petals and lip barred and spotted transversely at the base with 
rich golden yellow; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed at the base; petals 
ovate-oblong or elliptic-ovate, clawed; lip obcuneate, emarginate at the apex, provided 
at the base on each side with retrorse, semi-ovate retuse lobes; callus margined 
with deep orange-red, wings of column margined with brown hairs. 
Opoytociossum Scurrerertranum, H. G. Reichenbach Jil., Gardeners’. Chronicle, 
1865, p. 1082, with woodeut. Xenia Orchidacea, ii., p. 127, t. 143. Gartenflora, 
1869, t. 605. Floral Magazine, t. 461. Gardeners’ Chronicle, new series, 1886, 
XXV., p. 269, fig. 50. Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, part i, p. 66. 
Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th edition, p. 591. Linden, Les Orchidées 
Hxotiques, p. 876. : 
OpoxTocLossum Warscewiczir, Bridges, at Stevens’ Sale, April 25th, 1856. 
ODoNTOGLOSSUM GRANDE PALLIDUM, Klotzsch, in Herbarium Berolinense. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM GRANDE FLAVIDUM, Klotzsch, teste H. G. Reichenbach. 
Opontosiossum — [NSLEAYI MacrantauM, Lindley, Folia Orchidacea, Article 
Odontoglossum, No. 8. 
QponrocLossum Scniieperrayum Fuavipum, H. G. Reichenbach fil., Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, new series, 1883, xx., p. 135. 
Our present subject is a very distinct variety of an old inhabitant of our 
Orchid houses, and is closely allied to Odontoglossum Insleayi, which species it so 
closely resembles in its habit of growth as to be hardly distinguishable from it. 
0. Schheperianum made its first appearance in England at Stevens’ Auction Rooms 
In 1856 under the name of O. Warscewiez, it was subsequently found not to be 
that species, and was afterwards named by the late Professor Reichenbach 0. 
Schlieperianum after Adolphe Schlieper, Esq., of Elberfeld, Germany, a zealous 
collector of Orchids at that time. 
