1660 



ONCIDIUM* ciliatum. 

 Ciliated Oncidium. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchideje Juss. % Vandese. {Introduction to the natural 

 system of Botany, p. 262.) 



ONCIDIUM.—Suprd, vol. \3.fol 1050. 



O. ciliatum ; pseudobulbis ovatis compressis monophyllis, foliis complicatis 

 lineari-oblongis obtusis scapo erecto flexuoso apice paucifloro pluries 

 brevioribus, sepalis undulatis lineari-oblongis obtusis : anteriore bilobo, 

 petalis obovatis crispis, labello sequaliter tripartito sepalis breviore: laci- 

 niis obovatis sinubus suis latissimis fimbriatis, crista 5-corni cornubus 

 posticis divergentibus anticis coUateralibus tuberculis quibusdam inter- 

 jectis, columnse alis ovatis acutis. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. Plants, 

 p. 200. 



This plant is probably not uncommon in some parts of 

 Brazil. It originally reached the Kew Garden, where it 

 flowered in February 1819, at which time a sketch of it 

 was made by Mr. Bauer; it was afterwards obtained by 

 Mr. Cattley, who had it for several years. Mr. Knight's 

 rich collection in the King's Road supplied the specimen 

 from which our figure was made, in October last : about 

 the same time Mr. Booth sent us a drawing and specimen 

 from Sir Charles Lemon's Garden ; and two or three patches 

 of it were lately received by the Horticultural Society from 

 Brazil. 



It is very nearly, related to Oncidium barbatum, from 

 which it may, however, be certainly distinguished by all 

 the divisions of the lip being equal, and by its very dwarf 



* Seefol. 1542. 



