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OA. 
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JAR MID EAYS 
ODONTOGLOSSUM HUNNEWELLIANUM. xcus.. r. 
var. GRANDIFLORUM uno. 
Mr. HUNNEWELL’S ODONTOGLOSSUM, LARGE FLOWERED 
VARIETY. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 11. 
Odontoglossum Hi: Ili Paatdopalbierent 
pressis, 5 cm. longis, circa 3 1/4 cm. latis; foliis prope 
8 cm. latis, 15-20 cm. longis. Sepalis late lanceolatis acutis, viride luteis, brunneo plurimaculatis; petalis similibus, 
versus basin paulo pallidioribus, maculis numerosis parvioribus ; labello obovato-elliptico, albo vel cereo, brunneo- 
roseo maculato et secundum marginem punctulato, margine crenulato-undulato, ad basin reflexo, antice incurvo; 
lamellis tribus super discum, media breviore, lateralibus divergentibus, serrulatis, apice dentatis. Columnae alis latis, 
truncatis, crenulatis, albidis, fusco paucimaculatis. 
Odontoglossum Hunnewellianum ROLFE, in Gard. Chron., n. s., VI, p. 67. 
Var. grandiflorum LIND., infra. 
2g) dontoglossum Hunnewellianum is of comparatively recent introduction 
(2). and is not yet widely distributed. When it becomes better known it will 
PS) doubtless find a place in every collection as one of the principal types of 
the genus. It is very distinct and graceful, and belongs to the smaller-flowered 
section of the genus. Were its blooms as large as those of O. luteo-purpureum they 
would compare very favourably with that species as they possess the beauty of 
O. sceptrum and a richer colouring. 
This species was discovered about 1888 by Mr. Oscar Bosiscu, who according 
to Mr. Rotre of Kew, collected it in New Grenada, near Bogota. 
Mr. Roxre expresses the opinion that the lip of O. Hunnewellianum is similar 
in form to that of O. luteo-purpureum, and makes one think immediately of 
that species, but the wings of the column remind one rather of O. Pescatorei. 
However this may be, it is here unnecessary to say that O. Hunnewellianum is 
quite different from these two species and more particularly the latter. It exhibits 
perhaps some analogy with O. Schillerianum, the flowers of which are almost of 
the same shape, and from a horticultural point of view, perhaps this is the 
only species at all resembling that now under notice. On the whole however, 
O. Hunnewellianum is quite a distinct species, and has features of its own which 
render it a very desirable acquisition. 
It is dedicated to Mr. H. H. Hunnewet, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, who 
is well known as the possessor of one of the richest collections of Orchids in the 
United States. 
The variety grandiflorum which we now figure appeared in the establishment 
