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ODONTOGLOSSUM LINDLEYANUM.
D R . L I N D L E Y S O D O N T O G L O S S U M.
O. (EUODONTOGLOSSUM, Lindl.) pseudobulbis ovato-oblongis compressis dipliyllis, f'oliis lanccolatis
subeoriaccis acutis scapo racemoso uiulti-(5-12)floro vix brevioribus, sepalis petalisque
lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis subcequalibus, labello angusto unguiculato hastato utroque
latere angulato in disco bifalcigero basi per carinam cum eolumna connato. Columna
tomentosa, auriculis erectis angustis acuminatis.
ODONTOGLOSSUM LINDLEY AXUM, Beichenbach JiL: Warss. Bonpl. ii. G9; Beichenbach, Xenia Orel', t. 71; Walpers, A/males, vi.
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ODONTOGLOSSUM EPIDENDROIDES, Lindlfl (non lib. Kth. KG.).
Habitat in PAMPLONA (in sylris humidis), 8500 ft., Linden; Ocafia, 9000 ft., Sclilim; Ocaiia (floribns mnjoribus), Wagener;
Bogota, Weir.
DESCRIPTION.
PSEUDOBULBS about 3 inches long, ovate-oblong, compressed, 2-leaved, sometimes a little spotted. LEAVES lanceolate,
from a span to a foot long, rather leathery, sharp-pointed. RACEME rather longer than the leaves, bearing from
half-a-dozen to a dozen flowers. BRACTS oblong, acute, about one-third the length of the ovary. SEPALS and PETALS
nearly equal, an inch or more long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, of a yellowish-green, with a few large chestnut
blotches, the arrangement of which varies in different specimens. LIP shorter than the petals, narrow, wigmculate,
hastate, '6-lobed; the lateral lobes forming two blunt angles, the middle lobe longer, linear-lanceolate, deflexed, with
two large upright slightly-curved horns placed on either side of the disk; at its base the lip is keeled and united
with the column after the fashion of the Trichopilias; its colour is usually a pale yellow or yellowish-white with
larqe chestnut bauds. COLUMN downy, furnished near the summit with two narrow erect upright acuminate
auricles.
The name of this plant, associated as it is with the memory of the distinguished botanist who lias lately passed
from among us, is to me suggestive of the most melancholy reflections. Mourn indeed I must, the loss of one who
had been my steady friend for five-and-thirty years, and by whose labours among the members of my favourite tribe,
I have been enabled to follow a pursuit that has never ceased to be a joy and solace amid all the cares and vicissitudes
of life !*
O. Liudleyauum was so named by Professor Beichenbach, in honour of the great Orchidist whose mantle seems
now to have fallen upon himself. It is closely allied to the O. epidendroides of Humboldt and Kunth, from which
indeed Dr. Lindley failed to distinguish it, but if the characters of the two species, as represented in the ' Xenia,' prove
to be constant, no doubt the German Professor was right in separating them.
Several travellers, including Sclilim, Wagener, "VVarszewicz, and Weir, appear to have met with the plant in
various localities in New Granada, but always at a great elevation, hence it must of course be classed among the coolest
section of Orchids. It has flowered in the gardens of the Horticultural Society, to which it was sent by their zealous
collector Mr. Weir, and also in the collection of Mr. Backer, where Mr. Fitch made his drawing in the spring of
last year (1805).
DISSECTIONS.— I. Lip und column, seen sideways; 2. Ditto seen in front: magnified.
* I allude of course to those remarkable works of Dr. Lindley, the Orchidearum Genera el Species and the Folia Orchidacea (the latter of
which he was not destined to complote), with which the science of Orohidology may be said to have arisen, and which will coutinue its test-books