Tab. 5858. 

 ONCIDIUM cryptocopis. 



Long-sepalled Oncidium. 



Nat. Ord. ORCHiDEiE. — Gynandria Monandiua 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 4148.) 



Oncidium (Cyrtochilum) cryptocopis ; pseudobulbis elongatis compressis, 

 foliis loriformi - lanceolatis acutis, panicula 3-5-pedali longissima 

 volubili, ramulis tortuosis bracteatis, bracteis spathaceis, sepalis petalis- 

 que castaneis apicibus recurvis marginibus aureis crispatis, sepalo 

 dorsali unguiculato deltoideo, lateralibus longe unguiculatis obovato- 

 spathulatis deflexis, petalis breviter unguiculatis deltoideo-lanceolatis, 

 labello parvo recurvo, laciniis lateralibus parvis recurvis acinaciformi- 

 bus serratis, intermedio longe unguiculato dilatato recurvo transverse 

 oblongo sub 2-lobo marginibus crispatis, disco basi calloso et carinato 

 callis prominentibus varie tuberculato et sulcato, columna brevi alia 

 cuneatis carnosis basi processubus 2 cultriformibus aucta. 



Oncidium cryptocopis, Reich, fil. Gard. Chron., 1870, p. 826. 



A very fine species of the group to which belong 

 0. Xanthodon (Tab. nost. 5756), and other Cordilleran con- 

 geners, characterized by their very long flexuous twining 

 racemes, chestnut-brown perianth-lobes, with crisped golden 

 edges, and usually very small lip. It was imported from 

 Peru by Mr. Bull, F.L.S , and flowered in his establishment, 

 King's Eoad, Chelsea, in May last. 



Descr. Pseudo-bulb four to five inches long, lanceolate, 

 much compressed, green, one inch broad. Leaves • a foot long, 

 ovate-lanceolate, rather broader beyond the middle, acute, 

 pale green. Panicle three to five feet long, much branched, 

 slender, as thick as a crowquill, with sheathing lanceolate 

 scarious bracts ; pedicels flexuous, three to five inches long, 

 also bracteate. Flowers three inches across the tips of the 

 sepals, pale chestnut with golden crisped margins of the se- 



SEPTEMBLR 1ST, 1870. 



