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PL. CCCXXIX. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI unpen var. LINDENIAE norr. 
Mr PESCATORE’S ODONTOGLOSSUM, MADAME LINDEN’S 
VARIETY. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I. p. 19. 
Odontoglossum Pescatorei, Pseudobulbi ovati, i, diphylli. Folia lorata, acuta, carinata, basi angus- 
tata. Panicula erecta, diffusa, multiflora. Bracteae minutae. Flores speciosi. Sepala patentia, elliptico-oblonga, api- 
culata. Petala subconformia, multo latiora, leviter undulata. Labellum panduratum, lobis lateralibus rotundatis, lobo 
medio semicirculari apiculato undulato, cristae lamellis lateralibus cartilagineis laceris, lineis duabus elevatis diver- 
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gentibus interjectis. Columna clavata, alis rotundatis subintegris v. denticulatis. 
Odontoglossum Pescatorei LINDEN ex LINDL. in Paxt. Fl. Gard., III (1852-3), p. 83, t. 90. — Linpv. Fol. 
Orch., Odont., p. 19. — Lem. Fard. Fleur., IV, t. 331. — Pescatorea, t. 1. — BATEM. Monogr. Odont., t. 5. — 
Warner Sel. Orch., ser. I, t. 25. — Fl. d. Serres, t. 1624. — Gartenflora, XXIV, p. 195, t. 835, fig. b. — Ill. Hort., 
XXVIII, p. 7, t. 407. — Gard. Chron., 1884, pt. II, p. 332, fig. 62. — Id., 1885, pt. II, p. 212, fig. 46. — 
Id., 1888, pt. I, p. 245, fig. 40. — Id., 1889, pt. II, p. 684, 685, fig. 93. — Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, IV, 
t. 175. — VeITcH. Man. Orch., pt. I, pp. 58,59 cum. xyl. — Revue Hort. Belge, 1888, p. 160, fig. 14. 
Var. aurantiacum Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1883, pt. 1, p. 532+ 
Var. flaveolum Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1882, pt. I, p. 330. 
Var. Germinyanum Rcup. F. ex WARN. & WILL. Orchid Album, VII, t. 305. 
Var. leucoxanthum Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1887, pt. I, p. 606, fig. 114. 
Var. limbosum Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1880, pt. I, p. 168. 
Var. Lindenianum L. Linp. & Rop. in Lindenia, IV, p. 71, t. 178. 
Var. Lowianum RcuB. F. in Gard. Chron., 1884, pt. I, p. 638. 
Var. maculatum Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1882, pt. I, p. 182. 
Var. purpuratum RcuB. F. in Gard, Chron., 1882, pt. I, p. 588 (in nota). 
Var. Schroederianum Reus, F. in Gard, Chron., 1883, pt. Il, p. 588. 
Var. splendens DomBRAIN, Floral Mag., 1865, t. 241. 
Var. Veitchianum Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1882, pt. I, p. 588. — VerrcH Man. Orch., pt. 1, pp. I. 59,60, 
cum. xyl. — The Garden, XXVI, p. 112, t. 452. 
Var. Lindeniae. Sepalis petalisque medio paucimaculatis. 
Var. Lindeniae Hort. 
<9] dontoglossum Pescatorer was introduced to cultivation by M. Linpen, of 
Brussels, and flowered for the first time in cultivation in his establish- 
<q ment, in the spring of 1853. It was dedicated to M. Pescarore, of 
St. | Cloud, near Paris, who at that time possessed probably the finest collection 
of Orchids in Europe. Comparatively little variation was observed for several 
years, but among the large importations since made some notable varieties have 
appeared, of which Veitchianum and Schroederianum are distinguished by the 
numerous violet blotches on the segments, and Jeucoxanthum by its pure white 
flowers, whose only colour is the yellow of the lip’s crest. Many others have 
received distinctive names, as the above enumeration will show. The one now 
figured is characterised by having either a single violet blotch about the centre 
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