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ONCIDIUM CORNIGERUM. HorNEpD OncIDIUM. 
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Class and Order. 
GyYNANDRIA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord. —Onrcuipes. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata: late- 
ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La- 
bellum maximum, ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum, 
varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Columna 
libera semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo- 
cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. 
Pollinia 2, postice suleata ; caudicula plana; glandula ob- 
longa.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia co- 
riacea. Scapi paniculati vaginali, rarius simplices. Flores 
speciost, sepius maculati, rarius albi. Lindl. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Oncipium cornigerum; pseudo-bulbis oblongis sulcatis mo- 
nophylilis, foliis ovalibus acutis sessilibus striatis scapo 
elongato paniculato multifloro brevioribus, sepalo 
supremo petalisque obovatis concavis undulatis obtu- 
sis, inferioribus minoribus angustioribus basi connatis, 
labelli lobis lateralibus linearibus cornutis intermedio 
obovato subrepando undulato, crista antice verrucosa 
truncata postice lamella crenata transverse cornuta, 
columna alis linearibus obtusis porrectis. Lzndl. (pauc. 
verb. mut.) 
Oncipium cornigerum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1542. Gen. et 
Sp. Orchid. p. 199. re 34 ; 
This plant, which, from our first knowledge of it, pro- 
mised, by its very few-flowered scape and the small size of 
those flowers, to be little deserving of attention on the 
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