1929 
* ONCÍDIUM lunátum. 
Crescent-lipped Oncidium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ, S VANDEZ. 
ONCIDIUM.—Suprà, vol. 13, fol. 1050. 
O. lunatum ; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis 1-2-phyllis, foliis angustè ob- 
longis planis obtusis scapo brevioribus, scapo racemoso, sepalis petalisque 
spathulatis retusis, labello pubescente lunato basi piloso : laciniis lateralibus 
minimis inflexis, cristá lineari apice depressà utrinque bidentatà : dentibus 
glanduligeris, alis columne cuneatis integris, clinandrio posticé dentato. 
Supra, fol. 1920. in textu. - 
Perianthium flavum, laciniis croceo maculatis. Labellum album, cristá 
medio sanguineo-lineatá, limbo obscuré croceo maculato. Ale columne 
sanguineo fasciate. 
This very pretty species of Oncidium was imported 
from Demerara by Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered 
in their stove for epiphytes in June last. 
It is in some measure related to O. Harrisonianum, from 
which it is however abundantly distinct. The crescent- 
shaped lip is, as far as I know, quite peculiar to this species ; 
and the very blunt flat sepals conspicuously point it out. 
Fig. 1. is a magnified representation of the lip, with the 
— crest Ld with glands at the angles. Fig. 2. is the upper 
end of the column, with the wedge-shaped banded appen- 
dages, and the toothed clinandrium. ' 
— See folio 1920. 
