[Plate 36.] 



THE SPECKLED ODONTOGLOT. 



(ODONTOGLOSSUM N^VIUM.) 



A Stove Epiphyte, from the Andes of New Granada, belonging to the Order of Orchids. 



Specific QDIjaracter. 



THE SPECKLED ODONTOGLOT. — Pseudo-bulbs ribbed. Leaves thin, lanceolate, narrowed to the base. Panicles 

 spreading. Sepals and petals narrow, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, wavy. Lip of the same form, with a slight 

 tendency to become hastate, with the two teeth of the crest large, downy, somewhat three-lobed. Processes of the 

 column subulate, spreading. 



IN Central America there exists a herd of Odontoglots the distinctions between which can 

 hardly be settled, in the first instance at least, by dried specimens. They have all a 

 similar habit, branching panicles, and white-lipped flowers spotted with crimson, with long 1 

 narrow wavy divisions. 



The plant represented in the illustration was sent to England by Sir R. Schomburgk, and 

 was exhibited by Mr. Loddiges at one of the Spring meetings of the Horticultural Society. 

 What appears to be the same species is No. 7£1 of Mr. Linden's herbarium of 1846, found 

 by his collectors, Punch and Schlim, at the height of 6,000 feet, at St. Lazaro and La Pefia, 

 in the province of Truxillo, and said to have a yellow lip spotted with crimson— a circum- 

 stance possibly connected with the colour of the fading flowers. Another supposed variety 

 of this same plant was flowered by Messrs. Rollisson in June, 1847, with rather larger 

 blossoms : and in that particular it would appear as if these Odontoglots were subject to 

 considerable differences, just as we have large and small states of the Ample Oncid [One. 

 ampliaturti) ,the, Sphacelated Oncid, and even the Wentworth Oncid, of which last Sir Philip 

 Egerton flowered a magnificent form. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovate, compressed, rather strongly but bluntly ribbed. Leaves narrowly 

 oblong, tapering to the base, single on the pseudo-bulbs, shorter than the panicle. Flowers 

 pure white, speckled everywhere with rich crimson, arranged in the garden plant in a narrow 



