PSEUDOBULBS _rather long and narrow, compressed, about 3 inches in
length_. LEAVES, _one on each pseudobulb, less than a span long,
membranous, sharp-pointed, narrowed at the base into a channelled
petiole_. BRACTS _about an inch long, scariose, very acuminate_. SCAPE
_longer than the leaves, only partially covered by the bracts, bearing
from 2 to half-a-dozen flowers of a very delicate texture, and of snowy
whiteness with the exception of the yellow crest on the lip and a few
brown blotches on the lower half of the sepals and (though in a less
degree) of the petals also_. SEPALS _rather narrow, oblong, acute_.
PETALS _broader than the sepals and waved at the margin_. LIP _with a
heart-shaped crenulate plate (occasionally suffused with a rosy tint),
and a yellow 3-lobed callus at its base, the front portion of which is
longer than the lateral ones (which are turned inwards from the base
upwards), and split into two divergent members_. COLUMN _slender,
clavate, wingless_.
This pretty species was first described by Professor Reichenbach, from
materials derived from the collection of Mr. Warner, of Broomfield, in
compliment to whom he named it. It also flowered with the late Mr. Cauty,
of Liverpool, who kindly sent me the specimens from which the figure was
prepared, but these were smaller and less rich in their colouring than
those of Mr. Warner.
We have no precise information as to the locality where _O. Warnerianum_
grows wild, but there can be no doubt that it comes from some part of
Mexico, whence we have other species, _e.g._ _O. Rossii_, _O. Ehrenbergii_,
and _O. nebulosum_, to all of which it is nearly allied. It flowers in the
later autumn and winter months, but like most of the other members of its
section (_Leucoglossum_), is of a delicate habit, and requires to be very
carefully handled. It seems to prefer a moderate heat and perhaps a
slightly drier atmosphere than that in which the New Granada and Peruvian
Odontoglossa evidently delight; the compost or materials in which the roots
grow, should on no account be allowed to become sodden.
DISSECTIONS.--1. Lip and column (_magnified_), seen in front; 2. Ditto,
seen sideways.
PLATE XIII. FIG. 2.
ODONTOGLOSSUM STELLATUM.
STELLATE ODONTOGLOSSUM.
O. (LEUCOGLOSSUM, _Lindl._) pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis, foliis
solitariis lanceolatis recurvis, scapis erectis 1-2-floris brevioribus,
bracteis ovarii triquetri medium non attingentibus, sepalis petalisque
æqualibus linearibus acuminatis herbaceis, labello rhomboideo subrotundo
grosse dentato appendice unguis truncatâ quadridentatâ apice liberâ.
ODONTOGLOSSUM STELLATUM, _Lindl. in Bot. Reg._ 1841, _Misc._ 25; _Fol.
Orch._ _n._ 18.
ODONTOGLOSSUM EROSUM, _Reichenbach fil. Bonpl._ ii. 99; _A. Rich. Gal. in
Ann. Sc. Nat._ Jan. 1845.
Habitat in GUATEMALA, _Skinner_; MEXICO, _Hartweg_; VERAGUAS, _Warszewicz_.
DESCRIPTION.
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