Plait: XXVI I. 



ONCIDIUM SANGUINEUS*!. 



O.sanguineum; cbalbc, fuliis oblongto coriaceis dorm earinalis, scapo longisrimo 

 particulate, BCjmlis subrotimclis tinpiiciilatts laternlibus Iwisi snlKonnatis pcta- 

 li$c|iic cm\m sublobatis, labclli trilobi eubcrispi vcrnicati lobis sub&quftlibus 

 intcrmedio retuso cunealo, crista ovntfi convexfl cormgnlfl, cohunrue alls rotun- 

 datia sublobatig, anting puborula* Botamtal lla/islcr* 183W, musre/l no. (i8« 



La (itinyni, a country of whose vegetation but little is yet known, ha* furnished Messrs 

 Loddigcs willi tliis gaily painted plant, in which we find quite a new mixture of colour* for 

 Oneidium. Instead of the ground colour of the flower* being a deep brownish yellow, il is hero 

 of a soft pale green ; and for purple, or violet, or chocolate-coloured blotch™ wc have a rieli 

 erinuOD. 



In habit the plant resemble* O. carthaginense. with which it mutt he arranged ; it differ* from 

 it in being smaller, in hiving the lateral lobes of the lip nearly a* large a* that in the middle, in the 

 Surface of the lip being so polished a* to appear u if varnished, and finally in the crest not being 

 thrco»lobed| hut merely oblong and corrugated. 



There are no risible PSBUDO-MLBS to this plant, bul the leaves fold up at their base, where 

 they are enveloped in rigid brown sheaths, and after a time produce from their axil the (lowering 

 scape : they arc from six to eighteen inches long, very stiff, shnrp-poiutcd. with a sharp ridge along 

 their back* The scapk is about two feci hijrh, panieled. ami bending gracefully over the leave* ; 

 it is smooth, and obscurely spotted with dull crimson : the draOVs at the fork* of the branches are 

 ovate, and acute with a membranous edge. In all that relates to the arrangement of the inflorescence 

 and the form of the parts it agrees with Oncidium earthaginense. The SEPAL* and i»ktals are 

 roundish, concave, very much crested and lobed at the edge, and long-stalked, pale greenish yellow, 

 blotched with bright crimson ; the lateral sepals an* very slightly united at the base. The lip is 

 oblong, contracted like an hour-glass in the middle, and heart-shaped at the base, by which means 

 h is separated into three lobes, of which the lateral are very much puckered and curled, and project 



a* far as the side* of the middle lobe, which is much less curled, wedge-shaped, ro led off at the 



angles, and emarginate ; in form it b very much like a saddle as seen from above ; in the middle it 

 I* bright CrimSOD * and *o smooth a* to appear varnished ; otherwise it is coloured like the other 

 parts ; the creM is ovate, very much shrivelled, Mum al the end. with an oblong central tubercle, 

 deep crimson except on the ridges of the fold*, which are much paler The COLOUR has a pair of 

 roundish spreading cars; and an anther that is slightly covered with down which run- down over 

 the edge* of the stigma. 



