Tas. 5980. 
ONCIDIUM SUPERBIENS. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. OrcnipE#.—Tribe, VANDEZ, 
Genus Oncipium, Swartz ; (Endl. Gen. Pl, vol. ii. p. 203). 
Oncipium (Microchila) superbiens ; pseudobulbis elongato-ovatis compressis, 
foliis distichis elongatis lineari-oblongis acutis coriaceis carinatis, pani- 
cula maxima effusa, ramis flexuosis, bracteis cymbiformibus subacutis, 
sepalis trulliformibus unguiculatis undulatis obtusis, postico cordato 
apice reflexo lateralibus longius unguiculatis, petalis breviter late un- 
guiculatis cordato-oblongis recurvis crispato-undulatis, labello parvo e 
basi breviter unguiculato ovato lingueformi revoluto undulato, callo in 
disco elevato tuberculato basi utrinque dente erecto instructo, columne 
alis parvis falcatis. 
Onctpium superbiens, Reichb f. in Linnea, vol. xxii. Pp. 843; Lindl. Fol. 
Orchid. Oncid. p. 5. 
A native of the forests of Venezuela and New Grenada, 
where it was discovered at about the same time by Finck 
and Schlim, in 1847, near Pamplona, and by Purdie in the 
province of Ocana, at elevations of 89000 feet above the sea, 
flowering in January. 
The specimen figured was communicated by Messrs. Veitch, 
in whose magnificent establishment it flowered in the spring 
of the present year; it is clearly allied to several other species 
of the same section and country, all of thent remarkable for 
the smallness of the lip. 
Descr. Pseudobulbs three to four inches long, elongate- 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, much flattened. Leaves eget = 
fourteen inches long, one and a quarter to one and a 
. : : a 
inches broad, linear, acute, keeled, coriaceous, deep gree 
i i inches 
above, pale beneath, sheathing portion two to four inch 
long, tis flattened. Panicle two to three feet gant 
clined, lax, flexuous, much branched, 90—-30-flowered, - 
three-quarters of an inch long, boat-shaped, subacute, pale 
JULY 1st, 1872. 
