Tab. 5546. 



PALUMBINA Candida. 

 White-flowered Palumbina. 



Nat. Ord. Orchid em. — Gynandria Monandria. 



Gen. Char. Sepalum dorsale oblongum, subacutum, sepalura inferius sequale. 

 Petala oblonga, subacuta. Labellum subaequale. Columna craasa ; androclimum 

 obliquum, apiculatum, rostello quinquelobulo seu pnerupto medio unilobulato ; 

 ate merabrauaceae, retusae, denticulate, juxta foveam circularem. Tabula stigrna- 

 tica obliqua, prona, increscens super labelli basin. Caudicula polliats utnusque 

 caudicute tertise communi inserta. Rchb.fil. 



Palumbina Candida; pseudobalbia ligolatis compressis mcmophyllis (? aut 

 diphyllis), foliis cuneato-ligulatis, racemis erectis gracilibus nexuosis bren- 

 oribus. 



Palumbina Candida. Rchb. fil. Walp. Ami. v. 4. n. 699 et in Gard. Ohron. 1865 

 (new plan to 311), cum xylo. 



Oncidium candidum. Lindl. Rot. Reg. v. 29, 1843, Misc. 76. 



Oncidium? candidum. Lindl. Folia, n. 53. 



A pretty and interesting plant, originally flowered some 

 twenty years ago by the Messrs. Loddiges, when it was doubt- 

 fully referred to Oncidium by our great English orchidist-now, 

 alas, no more ! Since then the plant has appeared in the collec- 

 tion of Consul Schiller, when the examination of more perfect 

 specimens satisfied Professor Reichenbach that it was a truly 

 distinct form, to which he applied the generic name ***»»' 

 Una. It was introduced from Mexico by Hartweg, while in the 

 service of the London Horticultural Society, but was probably 

 lost through having been kept too warm. In a moderate tern- 

 perature it is easily grown, blooming during the summer months 

 and lasting long in beauty. The figure was derived from a 

 very fine specimen exhibited in June last at South Kensington by 

 Mr Day. It has also flowered in the Royal Gardens at Kew 



Descr. A small plant with narrow compressed P*™™f™> 

 each bearing a single linear or slightly wedge-shaped leaf from 

 six inches to a foot long. Baeemes few-flowered, erect, slender, 



DECEMBER 1ST, 1865. 



