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ONCIDIUM curtum. 
The Oropeared Oncid. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEÆ. (Oncnmips, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 173.) 
ONCIDIUM, Swartz. 
Sect. EvoNciD1A, HETERANTHIA, tetrapetala, macropetala. 
O. curtum ; pseudobulbis . . . -> folis . . . ., floribus paniculatis, sepalis 
lateralibus apice tantum liberis obtusis, labello rotundato bilobo undu- 
lato basi auriculato, mesochilio brevi, eristá 5-lobà tuberculatà verrucis 
quibusdam utrinque sparsis et in lineam gyriformem ordinatis, alis 
column parvis truncatis, antherá pubescente. 
We received this new species in July last from Messrs. 
Veitch of Exeter, without any account of its history. The 
beauty of the plant renders it desirable that it should be 
better known. 
At first sight it looks like O. crispum or Forbesü, but in 
reality it is much nearer O. pectorale (the Breastplate Oncid). 
From that species it differs in the following particulars. 
1. The flowers are smaller; 2. there is more brown in the 
sepals and petals; 3. there is a broad brown border to the 
lip; 4. the space between the auricles and expanded part of 
the lip is very short, with parallel edges; 5. the auricles are 
broader; 6. the tubercles of the crest are much more broken 
up, and differently arranged ; 7. the anther is downy ; and 
S. the lateral sepals are nearly united to the point: in the 
Breastplate Oncid they are free almost to the base. 
Fig. 1. represents the column and base of the lip of this 
species. 
