THE ORCHID REVIEW. 

 ODONTOGLOSSUM PRyESTANS. 



We are now able to give a figure of the very 

 glossum pnestans, from a plant in the collect 

 Walton Grange, Stone, the photograph having 

 gardener, Mr. Stevens. The species is a nativ< 

 discovered at the sources of the Maranon by ^ 

 dried specimens, which were described by Keichenb; 

 ii., p. 99). It is uncertain who first introc 



re and 



distinct Odonto- 



of W. 



Thompson, Esq., 



en take: 



n and sent by his 



' Peru, 



and was originally 





1, who sent home 



bach in 



1854 (Bonplandia,. 



cultiv 



ation, as Reichen- 



occasio 



n of its flowering. 



with the Rev. J. B. Norman, Whitchurch Rectory, Edgware, merely says :— 

 " It was flowered very long since at Tooting with Messrs. Rollisson, who 

 sent it to Consul Schiller.*' He also remarks that flowers were sent by 

 Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., which had been gathered in Peru, he believed, by 

 Mr. Smith, and that " Wagner gathered it but once at Ocana," but the 



; 



1, some closely allied species having been 

 fused with it. It was re-introduced from Peru by Messrs. Linden, 

 whom it flowered in 1892, when it was figured in the Lindenia (vol. 





