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ODONTOGLOSSUM CIRRHOSUM ume. var. SUPERBUM sorr. 
THE TENDRILLED ODONTOGLOSSUM, SUPERB VARIETY. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 19. 
Odontoglossum cirrhosum, Pseudobulbi oblongo-lanceolati, compressi, ancipites, ecostati. Folia lineari-lanceolata, 
acuta, scapi folia superantes, paniculati, multiflori. Bracteae triangulo-lanceolatae, acutae. Sepala lanceolata, cirroso- 
acuminata, undulata, Petala sepalis similia, majora. Labellum unguiculatum, trilobum, lobis lateralibus brevibus rotun- 
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datis denticulatis recurvis, intermedio triangulo-l 
apice recurvo, disco bicornuto cornubus incurvis. 
Columna clavata, alis cirrosis. 
Odontoglossum cirrhosum LINDL. Gen. and Sp. Orch. Pp. 211. — LINDL, Fol. Orch. Odont., p. 3. — RCHB. F. 
in Wacp. Ann., VI, p. 827. — Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1876, i, pp. 501, 503, fig. 91, 92; 1878, i, p. 181, fig. 33. 
— Id., 1886, i, p. 12, fig. 3. — Bot. Mag., t. 6317. — Ill. Hort., XXV, p. 9, t. 301. — Fl, Mag., n. s., 1876, t. 222. 
— Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, IV, t. 151. — VetrcH Man. Orch., I, p. 17, cum xyl. — Orchidophile, 1883, 
pp. 736, 737, cum xyl. — Gartenflora, XLI, P- 594, t. 1383. — Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort., 1890, p. 216, t. 9. 
he elegant Odontoglossum cirrhosum was described by D* Linptey as 
| long ago as 1833, when only four other species were known, yet it was 
y not introduced to cultivation until some forty years later. The original 
specimen was one collected by Colonel Hatz in the valley of Mindo, in Guayaquil, 
at about 6000 feet altitude, and sent to Sir Witt1am Hooker. It was not until 1876 
that it flowered for the first time in cultivation, and its introduction was due to 
the brothers Ktazocn, nephews of the famous collector Rozzz, who sent plants 
to Mr W. Butt, of Chelsea. It was exhibited for the first time at a meeting of 
the Royal Horticultural Society on April 5 th., 1876, by Spencer Brunton, Esq., 
of Beckenham, and was unanimously awarded a First-class Certificate. About the 
same time it also flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.; soon 
afterwards it became comparitively common in collections, and has ever since 
been highly esteemed on account of its graceful form and pleasing colours, and 
the ease with which it can be grown. 
It is perhaps most allied to C. naeviwm LinbL., a beautiful species from the 
Santa Martha district, but is markedly different in the shape of the lip and length 
of the sepals and petals. 
It is found on the Western Cordillera of the Ecuadorean Andes between the 
latitudes of 2°15 N. and 4° S. In certain localities it grows in company with 
O. Halli, and it is from such spots that the beautiful natural hybrid O. x elegans 
comes, being evidently derived from the intercrossing of these two species by 
insect agency. 
Some variation has been observed, both in the size of the flowers and the 
number, size and colour of the spots, and two varieties have received distinctive 
