ODONTOGLOSSUM. 



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extremities deep yellow ; lip beautifully fringed, bright crimson in the centre, 

 with a broad marginal band of creamy-yellow. — Native country not stated. 

 Fid.— Jouni. oflloH., 1888, xvi. p. 411, f. 54. 



O. CANDELABRUM.— See O. 



CORONAaiUM. 



O. CARINIFERUM, BcM.f. — A very tall-growing, free-flowering plant, pro- 

 ducing oblong sub-ancipital diphyllous pseudobulbs, oblong ligulate leaves, and 

 large spreading panicles of flowers, which have the oblong lanceolate acuminate 

 sepals and petals reddish-brown, greenish outside, and the lip clawed, three- 

 lobed, with the anterior larger lobe cordate acute, white in front, the disk red, 

 and also bearing about five fleshy tubercles, the two lamellae on the violet claw 

 being serrated. It succeeds well in the cool house, and flowers during the 

 winter season, continuing in bloom for three months. — Central America : 

 Veragua, 9,000 feet. 



Fig. — Batem. Man. Odoiit., t. 10 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4919 ; Batem. Second Cent, Orch. 

 PI, t. 1.54. 



Syn. — 0. hastilaMum fusoatum ; O.faleipetalnm. 



O. CERVANTESII, La Llave et Lexa/rza. — A pretty dwarf species with ovate 

 angulate pseudobulbs, solitary oblong leaves, and few:-flowered scapes of large 

 sweet-scented flowers, with a slightly cordate and acute lip, the colour a very 

 pale pink, the base of the sepals and petals marked with broken concentrical bands 

 of brownish-crimson on a yellow ground, the claw fleshy, cup-shaped, having in 

 front a double tooth, and beyond that a pair of long hairy processes. — Mexico. 



Fia.—Bot. Reg., 1845, t. 36 ; Paxtnn, Fl. Gard., i. t. 15 ; Moore, III. Orch. PI. 

 (Odontoglossvm'), t. 4 ; Orchid Album,, iv. 1. 167 ; L'lll. Uort., 1. 12 ; Id., 3rd ser., t. 313 

 (jnajus) ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., xii. p. 193, with tab. ; Floral Mag., t. 294 ; VeitcKs Man. 

 Orch. PL, i. p. 16 ; The Garden, 1887, xxxii. p. 323 (woodcut). 



O. CERVANTESII AN- 

 DERSONI, Moore. — This 

 variety, which is referred to 

 without name by Eeichen- 

 bach in Gardeners' Chronicle 

 (1868, p. 710), has white 

 flowers marked by the usual 

 concentric broken lines or 

 bars of reddish-brown at the 

 base of the sepals and petals, 

 but differs in having the lip 

 bordered by numerous spots 

 of the same colour as the 

 bars at the base of the 

 sepals. It was flowered by 

 Mr. Anderson in the Meadow 

 Bank collection. — Mexico. 



O. CERVANTESII DE- 

 CORUM, JicA&./.— A magni- 

 ficent variety of 0. Cervantesii, with very large flowers measuring nearly 3 

 inches across. The sepals and petals are white tinged with rose and spotted and 



ODONTOGLOSSUM CEEVAMESII DBCOEUM. 



