ODONTOGLOSSUM. 571 



O. JOSEPHINAE, Wniiaiiis. — A lovely gom, wbich flowered in the collection 

 of E. H. Measures, Esq., of Streatham, to whose youngest daughter it is 

 dedicated. The pseudobulbs are clustered, oblong, compressed, pale green, 

 diphyllous ; leaves broadly ligulate-oblong, acute ; scape radical, springing from 

 the axil of accessory leaves, tinged with reddish-brown, and supporting a 

 nodding distichous raceme of numerous flowers. Flowers distinct and showy, 

 the perianth stellately spreading, about 3 inches in depth, and nearly as much 

 in breadth, white, suffused slightly with rose in the centre, marked with bright 

 chocolate-red spots. Sepals lanceolate acuminate, slightly wavy at the edge, 

 white, with ti, few large oblong spots of chocolate-red in the lower half, the upper 

 j)art unspotted ; petals rather broader and shorter and also more undulated than 

 the sepals, white, spotted with somewhat smaller and more numerous crowded 

 spots of chocolate-red about half-way up, the base marked by three parallel 

 blunt linear-clavate bars of the same colour. Lip with the front portion deflexed, 

 oblong, with a cordate base, an undulated margin, and a recurved apiculate 

 apex. The side or basal lobes are erect, longitudinally striped with chestnut-red 

 on a whitish ground. — Neio Grenada. 

 FlG.—OivJud Album, iv. t. 18S. 



O. KRAIVIERI, Bclib.f. — A rather pretty dwarf-growing species, in which the 

 pseudobulbs are compressed, with sharp edges, in some specimens roundish, 

 in others ovate, pale green, bearing a single leaf. The peduncles are freely pro- 

 duced from the base of the bulbs, and are pendulous, bearing several flowers; 

 the sepals and petals are ligulate obtuse, and the lip somewhat reniform, deeply 

 notched in front ; the whole flower being of a charming violet colour, and the 

 lip, in addition, being marked and spotted with yellow and purple, and having 

 two lines of rich dark brown near the column. It is a good addition to this 

 numerous family, and should be grown in peat and sphagnum moss, but will 

 require a little more warmth than the generality of the genus, and it will be 

 found that the temperature of the Cattleya house will suit it best. — Costa Rica. 



Yia.— Gard. Cliron., 1868, p. 98, with fig. ; Bot. Mag., t. 5778 ; Floral Mag., t. 406 ; 

 Satem. Hon. OAont., t. 24; Orcldd Album, i. t. 40; Gard. Chron., N.S., 1886, xxv. 

 p. 756, f. 166; L'lll. Sort., xxxii. t. 562. 



O. KRANZLINil, O'Brien. — We have not seen this new species, so we prefer 

 to give the original description of Mr. J. O'Brien in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 April 15, 1893 : — "This pretty new species has much the same form and mannei- 

 of marking in the flowers as 0. elegans; the form of the labellum and its crest 

 partakes somewhat of the arrangement of the same organ in 0. naevium, while 

 the downy or velvety reddish-brown blotch in the middle of the labellum is 



suggestive of 0. Schillerianwm The flowers are about 2 inches 



across, sepals and petals nearly equal, lanceolate, and with a tapering thin point ; 

 pale yellow blotched with reddish-brown ; lip lanceolate apiculate, white with 

 a velvety reddish-brown blotch in the centre and a few purple spots at the sides. 

 It was.imported and flowered by Messrs. F. Sander & Co."— Z7. S. of Colombia. 



O. LAEVE, Linil. — A pretty and variable species, of free-growing habit, with 

 ovoid compressed pseudobulbs, a pair of elongate lorate obtuse leaves, and a 

 panioled inflorescence of rather large and showy flowers, in which the sepals and 

 petals are oblong linear acute, flat, yellowish-green transversely banded with 



