ODONTOGLOSSUM. '581 



edge of yellow, the petals smaller, similarly coloured, with two forked bars of 

 pale yellow at the base opposite the lateral lobes of the lip, which are large, erect, 

 crescent-shaped, white spotted with chestnut, the front lobe large, roundish, 

 cuspidate-acuminate, pure white, deeply fringed, the disk with a bifid crest and 

 three ob-cuneate brown spots. — New Grenada. 



■■■ *^/o'^V~-}^'"V' ^™''-iii-t- 191, ff. 1-3; Z'lU. I{oH.,Si-d sot., t. io; OvcUd Allmn, 

 111. t. 1,^1 ; Luuleaia,i. t.3 ; Veifch's Man. Orch. PL, i. p. 54. 



O. MOBILE.- See O. Pescatokei. 



O. NOEZLIANUM.-See Cochlioda Noezlia-ja. 



O. ODORATUM, Lindl. — This remarkably sweet-scented species has oblong 

 compressed grooved pseudobulbs, narrowly ensiform acute leaves, and branching 

 panicles sometimes 3 feet long, the flowers being numerous, and having the 

 sepals and petals golden-yellow blotched with brownish-red, narrowly lanceolate 

 and crispy at the edges ; the lip is of the same colour, white towards the base, 

 hastate, with the front lobe broadly subulate, and the disk with two pairs of 

 erect teeth. It blooms during the winter months. This plant is often confounded 

 with 0. gloriosum, but it is quite distinct. 



Fig.— .Bof. Mag., t. 6502 ; Veitch's Man. Orch. PL, i. p. 55. 



O. ODORATUM BAPHICANTHUM.— See 0. BAPnicANTnnir. 



O. ODORATUM LATIMACULATUM, Andre.— A. variety which has the parts 

 larger as well as flattened out and broader, and the blotches of purple-brown on 

 the several members broader and more intensely coloured. — New Grenada. 



TiG.—L'lU. Hort., 3rd ser., t. 39. 



O. ODORATUM STRIATUM, Bclib. f.—A handsome variety with very pale 

 flowers, covered with elongated blotches of a deep brown. 

 Fig.— Lindi-niu, v. t. 233. 



O. OERSTEDII, Rclib. f. — A very pretty diminutive species, having oblong 

 ancipitous pseudobulbs, which are furnished with a single cuneate oblong leaf, 

 and producing erect scapes bearing one or two flowers, of which the lanceolate 

 wavy sepals and the obovate retuse undulated petals are pure white, while the 

 flabellate lip, four-lobed in front, is white with a yellow disk and a few red spots. 

 ' This plant is very floriferous, and is in addition deliciously scented. It flowers 

 during the surrimer months. — Costa Rica. 



Fig.— A'cftM Orch., i. t. 68, ff. 1—3 ;, Oard. Chnm., N.S., vii. p. 811, f. 128; Jd., 

 1886, XXV. p. 757, f. 167 ; Dot. Mag., t. 6820 ; Veitch's Man. Orch. PL,i. p. 57. 



O. OERSTEDII MAJUS, Williams. — This charming variety flowered in' the 

 Victoria and Paradise Nurseries. Pseudobulbs clustered, oblong-ovate, com- 

 pressed, furnished with a single stalked cuneate-oblong leaf, some 4 or 5 inches 

 long, by 1 inch broad, and deep green ; scape longer than the leaves, erect, 

 bearing on the summit from two to five flowers about 1-| inch across, these are 

 pure white, and yield a grateful perfume ; sepals and petals nearly equal, oblong- 

 obtuse, spreading, fleshy in texture, and pure waxy white ; lip three-lobed, side 



