Tap. 5878. 
ONCIDIUM ticrinum, VAR. SPLENDIDUM. 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDEZ.—Tribe VANDE. 
Genus Oneipium, Swartz ; (Endl. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 2038). 
Oncipium (Homeeantha) tigrinum ; pseudobulbis ovatis ovato-rotundatisve 
compressis 2-phyllis, foliis oblongo-linearibus obtusis basi angustatis, 
_ racemo elongato volubili, bracteis parvis appressis, floribus amplis, 
sepalis liberis petalisque lineari-oblongis recurvis undulatis flavis 
brunneo-fasciatis, labelli flavi lobis lateralibus parvis $-orbicularibus 
intermedio amplissimo breviter late unguiculato transverse late oblongo 
emarginato, ungue basi bituburculato v. 2-carinato cum crista brevi 
intermedia elongata, columne alis patentibus obtusis, 
Oncipium tigrinum, Llav. et Lex. Orchid. Mex., p. 36. Lindl. Gen. and 
Sp. Orchid., 203. Fol. Orchid., n. 157. 
Oncipi1um Barkeri, Lindl. in Bot. Reg., 1841. Mise. n. 174. Sert. Orchid. 
t. 48. Pazt. Mag., vol. xiv. p. 97. Lemaire, Ill. Hortic., 1854, t. 2. 
OponToaLossuM tigrinum, Lindl. in Fol. Orchid., n. 157. 
Var. splendidum, major, floribus amplissimis, labelli lobo intermedio 1}- 
poll. lato, lateralibus vix } poll. latis. 
Oncipium splendidum, A. Rich. ex Duchartre in Journ. Soc. Imp, Hort. 
Paris, 1862, p. 50. Flore des Serres, t. 1825. 
I see no reason whatever for regarding this splendid plant 
as other than a slight variety of the original 0. tigrinum ; whose 
variations, including var. unguiculatum, Lindl. (O. tonosmum, 
Hort.) are very far within the limits reached by other species 
of the genus. It is a native of the Irapan mountains, near 
Valladolid and Paracho, and of Mechoacan, both in Mexico ; 
and, according to Van Houtte (Flore des Serres) of Guatemala. 
The magnificent variety here figured flowered in the splendid 
collection of Lord Londesborough, in February, 1870, and 
bore twenty flowers on a branched raceme, supported by a 
peduncle two feet long. It is, without doubt, the finest 
Oncidium hitherto discovered. 
Duscr. Pseudo-bulbs crowded, two to three and a-half inches 
long, younger pear-shaped, older more orbicular, muc 
 ganuary Ist, 1871. 
