of the segments, or two or three smaller ones close together in the same position. 
It recently flowered with Messrs Linpen, L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, 
Brussels. Re A. Rovere. 
For a considerable period after its original introduction Odontoglossum 
Pescatorei showed little variation, but at the present time a large number of 
varieties are known. The present one, though not heavily spotted like the 
varieties Veitchianum, Schroederianum and Lowianum, is very distinct and pretty, 
and its purple spotting confined to the centre of the segments sets the flowers 
off to considerable advantage. It recently flowered out of one of our importations. 
Pure white forms of Odontoglossum Pescatorer are excessively rare, but Baron 
ScHRODER’s splendid variety leucoxanthum is of this character, as the only colour 
remaining is the yellow of the disc, which seems quite persistent. It is a most 
beautiful form, of the purest white, and contrasts most effectively with the 
spotted forms. It is well known that most of these varieties exist as unique or 
nearly unique plants, none of them ever occuring in quantity, and their true 
character only appearing when they flower in cultivation for the first time. Many 
people have therefore made a practice of buying newly imported plants, in the 
hope of obtaining something of exceptional merit from them, and in this way 
many striking forms have been obtained, more particularly in the case of 
O. crispum. One very beautiful form which now and then appears among batches 
of O. Pescatorei, and is frequently not noticed until it flowers, is the beautiful 
O. X excellens, now known to be a natural hybrid between this species and 
O. triumphans. Several very distinct forms have appeared, but all of them have 
the flowers more or less suffused with yellow, sometimes quite bright, at others 
of a pale sulphur shade, and it may well be that most of the so-called yellow 
varieties of O. Pescatore: are really forms of O. x excellens. 
