ODONTOGLOSSUM. 



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become suffused over their whole surface ; the lip is pandurate cuspidate 

 serrate, yellow with two or three reddish-brown spots, and a bifurcate callus 

 as in 0. crispum. The lip is pointed as in 0. Andersonianum. It flowers during 

 the summer months. — Neiv Grenada. 

 Fig. — Lindcnia, iii. t. 128. 



O. BERGMANI, L. Lind. — This novelty was first flowered and exhibited by 

 Mr. F. Bergman, gardener to Baron Alphonse de Eothsohild, Ferrieres, France, 

 and appears to be a natural hybrid. Flowers 4 inches across ; sepals and petals 

 white, the former having broad bands of chocolate-brown ; petals irregularly 

 spotted with the same colour ; lip white, having a blotch similar in colour on 

 the lower portion and a few smaller spots. — TT. S. of Colombia. 



Fig. — Ziadenia, vi. t. 286. 



O. BICTONIENSE, Lindl. — A well-known free-growing species, with oblong 

 compressed pseudobulbs, bearing two or three ensiform undulated leaves, and 

 upright racemes of flowers, in which the sepals and petals are green spotted 

 with brown, and the cordate acuminate lip lilac or pink, or sometimes white. 

 The variety album, figured in L' Illustration Sorticole, 3rd ser., t. 91, has the 

 sepals and petals wholly of a bright chestnut-brown, and the lip white, and that 

 figured as splendens in the same work, t. 449, has the sepals green and brown, 

 and the lip bright rosy lilac. The name africanum was given by misadventure. 

 — Mexico: Guatemala, 6,000 — 7,000 feet. 



Fig.— 5oi. Beg., 1840, t. 66 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3812 (lip whitish) ; Batom. Orch. Mux. 

 ct Guat., t. 6 ; Id., Man. Odont., t. 18 ; VlU. ITort., t. 449 ; Id., 3rd ser., t. 91 (album} ; 

 More des Serres, t. 1502 (lip pink) ; Moore, III. Orcli. Pl.^doiitoglosswm), t. 6 ; Garten- 

 Hora, 1837, t. 1250. 



S YN. — CyrtocliiUim hiotoniense ; 

 Zygopetalum africanum. 



O. BICTONIENSE SUPERBUM, 



Willia/ms. — A distinct free-grow- 

 ing variety, much superior to the 

 old form. The pseudobulbs and 

 leaves are light green, the spike 

 erect, many-flowered, the sepals 

 and petals dark chocolate-brown, 

 and the lip large, purplish-mauve 

 marked with darker lines. It 

 blooms during the autumn 

 months, and is a very desirable 

 plant. — Guatemala. 



O. BLANDUM, Rdib. /.—A 

 miniature very free - flowering 

 species, somewhat resembling a 

 dwarf form of 0. naevium. The 

 flowers have a honey-like frag- 

 rance, and are white with brownish-crimson spots ; the sepals and petals are 

 equal in size, cuneate-lanceolate acuminate, creamy white, beautifully spotted 

 and freckled with maroon-crimson, and the lip, which is of the same colour but 



ODONTOGLOSSUM BLANDUM. 



