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ORCHIDS 



Odontoglossum. 



or rose-tinted, the sepals spotted all over, the petals only at the 

 base, with deep brown spots ; the lip is large, somewhat heart- 

 shaped, and pure white or rose. Mexico, 1842. (Fig. 119; 

 B. R., XXV., t. 48.) 



O. Sanderianum {Rchb. f.). — This is chiefly remarkable for its 

 delicious, hawthorn-like fragance. The pseudo-bulbs are ovoid, 



Fig. 121. Flower of Odontoglossum Adrians 



(nat. size). 



compressed, two-leaved ; the leaves are rather narrow, about ift. 

 long. Flower-spikes drooping, bearing numerous rather small 

 flowers, with narrow sepals and petals, which are yellow, blotched 

 with brown ; lip white or pale yellow, with a large purple blotch 



