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,o comprehend Mich Orehidaccn *» would hm b«* referred to Oneidium if ihoy had hud a lobe.! 

 InbeUum. I» this view oftho character, the genus become little more tlmn nn artificial dismember- 

 „„ „i of Otu-idium.and I am by 110 means sttrc that it tan Ik- preserved in it* pre-em -int.-, cspeeinUv 

 na uiany «f !!■■- species fan* C all tlia habit uf Oncidiom proper. I( U however impossible lo form any 

 fixed opinion upon llic subject in tlio present state of our information, and therefore I abstain 

 upon this occasion from doing more than describing the present very reinurkublc specie*, 

 whoso large spathnccous bracts poSftibly afford a surer cliaractcr for » genus than any thing in the 



flower itself. 



Cynochilum pardinum and ixioidc* ought rather to be referred to Odontuglonum along with 



Cvrtochilum volubile of PSppig. 





