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ODONTOGLOSSUM NEBULOSUM uinpt. 
THE CLOUDED ODONTOGLOSSUM. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 19. 
Odontoglossum nebulosum. Pseudobulbi ovoidei v. ovoideo-oblongi, subcompressi, diphylli. Folia oblonga, sub- 
acuta, basi conduplicata. Scapi suberecti, apice subarcuati, 3-7-flori. Bracteae lanceolatae, acutae. Sepala oblongo- 
lanceolata, acuta, carinata. Petala late elliptica, subacuta, undulata, apice recurva. Labellum unguiculatum, ungue 
cucullato carnoso, limbo cordato-ovato obtuso crenato-undulato, lamellis duabus erectis dentibusque totidem anticis, 
-Columna elongata, aptera. 
Odontoglossum nebulosum LinDL. Sert. Orch., sub t. 25. — Ip. Fol. Orch., Odont., p. 9. — RcuB. F. in 
Gard, Chron., 1867, p. 572, excl. syn. — BATEM. Monogr. Odont., t. 1. — Flor. & Pomol. 1869, pp. 14, 15, cum 
xyl. — Gard. Chron., 1886, pt. I, pp. 596, 597, fig. 131. — VeITcH Man. Orch., pt. 1, P- 53, cum xyl. 
Odontoglossum maxillare Lem. in Ill. Hort., V1, t. 200, non Lindl. 
Var. candidulum Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1867, p. 710, cum xyl. — Ip. 1886, pt. I, p. 596, fig. 130. 
Var. guttatum Reus. F. ex Rov. in Ill. Hort., XXXI, Pp. 93, t. 524. 
dontoglossum nebulosum was originally discovered by Baron Karwinsky, 
in 1833. It was found growing upon oaks in the neighbourhood of 
§ Oaxaca, at about 5000 feet elevation. Four years later some plants 
were received from the same locality by Mr Bareman. They were imported 
during the severe winter of 1837-1838, and arrived quite uninjured. They began 
to grow satisfactorily in the stove, and all went well as long as the temperature 
did not rise beyond 70° Fahr., but when the hot weather came they all perished, 
together with many other eel Orchids, from excess of heat. In those early days 
the cultivation of cool Orchids was not understood, and multitudes of alpine 
Species were literally stewed to death in the intensely heated structures in which 
they were placed. - 
Afterwards the plant was met with by Gaxegorrr, and still later by Gutes- 
BREGHT, who sent plants to M. LinpeEn’s establishment, at Brussels, where they 
flowered in 1856, and thus the species was successfully established in cultivation. 
The variety candidulum, which is distinguished by the absence of blotches 
on the sepals and petals, was introduced by Messrs Hucu Low & C°, and 
flowered in the collection of Mr Day, at Tottenham. 
The species is rather variable, both in the colour of the spots and in their 
arrangement. In some cases the spots are deep red-brown, in others quite pale 
green, while a variety of intermediate shades are met with. Generally the spots 
are confined to the lower half of the segments, but in some cases they spread 
over two-thirds of the entire surface; or, as already pointed out, they may be 
absent altogether. 
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