ese RUNE 
1660 
ONCIDIUM* ciliâtum. 
Ciliated Oncidium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcnIDEz Juss. $ Vander. (Introduction to the natural 
system of Botany, p. 262.) 
ONCIDIUM.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1050. 
O. ciliatum ; pseudobulbis ovatis compressis monophyllis, foliis complicatis 
lineari-oblongis obtusis scapo erecto flexuoso apice paucifloro pluries 
brevioribus, sepalis undulatis lineari-oblongis obtusis : anteriore bilobo, 
petalis obovatis crispis, labello equaliter tripartito sepalis breviore: laci- 
niis obovatis sinubus suis latissimis fimbriatis, crista 5-corni cornubus 
posticis divergentibus anticis collateralibus tuberculis quibusdam inter- 
Jectis, column alis ovatis acutis. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. Plants, 
p. 200. 
This plant is probably not uncommon in some parts of 
Brazil. It originally reached the Kew Garden, where it 
flowered in February 1819, at which time a sketch of it 
was made by Mr. Bauer; it was afterwards obtained by 
Mr. Cattley, who had it for several years. Mr. Knight's 
rich collection in the King's Road supplied the specimen 
from which our figure was made, in October last: about 
the same time Mr. Booth sent us a drawing and specimen 
from Sir Charles Lemon's Garden ; and two or three patches 
of it were lately received by the Horticultural Society from 
Brazil. 
It is very nearly related to Oncidium barbatum, from 
which it may, however, be certainly distinguished by all 
the divisions of the lip being equal, and by its very dwarf 
* See fol. 1542. 
