The increasing taste for orchid culture in America will render the following representation of a very beautiful species particularly acceptable to a great number of our readers, and even those who never saw an orchid house, or an epiphytal orchid growing, will enjoy looking at a picture of that which they would certainly love to possess. The name Odontoglos-sum is hard to pronounce, but means simply the tooth-tongued orchid. It is one of the most beautiful of the great family of orchids, and this species is the largest, and perhaps the showiest of this very beautiful genus.

It was introduced a few years ago by Mr. Wm. Bull, from Columbia, in South America.

Odontoglossum vexillarium.