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ODONTOGLOSSUM CERVANTESII. 
These plants may either be grown in pots or baskets, or fastened to a block of 
wood. To produce vigorous pseudo-bulbs, they require to be placed in a warm, 
moist, and shaded atmosphere, during the period of growth ; and to promote 
flowering, they should be exposed to converse influences in their winter season. 
The transition from the one to the other must be gradual ; as the plants show 
evidence of returning activity, warmth and humidity must be slowly augmented ; 
and as soon as the new growths are fully developed, these agents must be with- 
drawn by degrees, and more light admitted. The plants should never be kept in 
a warm or moist place while the flowers are open, as these conditions would hasten 
their decay. 
An increase may be effected by detaching the old pseudo-bulbs, and placing 
them on coarse, moist sand, over some source of bottom-heat, till buds are developed, 
after which they may be treated as other plants. 
The specific name was accorded by La Llave, in compliment to Vincente 
Cervantes, a Spanish Botanist. 
