habit. In colour its flowers vary, sometimes being yellow 

 spotted with red, and sometimes the brownish orange of 

 the accompanying figure. 



It will only grow in a hot damp stove ; but succeeds 

 best if tied to a piece of the branch of a tree. The following 

 is Mr. Booth's account of the species : — 



" This pretty little species of Oncidium has been culti- 

 vated for the last three years in the collection of Sir Charles 

 Lemon, Bart., M.P., at Carclew, Cornwall, where it has 

 annually, in November, produced its interesting and cu- 

 riously-formed flowers. I do not know who has the merit 

 of bringing it to this country, but believe it to have been 

 received through some of the officers of his Majesty's Packet 

 Establishment at Falmouth. 



** Pseudobulbs ovate, compressed, one-leaved. Leaves 

 slightly complicate at the base, oblong-obtuse, about 2 

 inches long and half an inch broad, with a little hook at the 

 point. Their colour is a rich shining green, excepting where 

 they are connected with the bulbs, which is brownish red. 

 Scape nearly erect, small and round, from 4 to 6 inches 

 high, and thickly covered with brownish spots ; usually 

 two-flowered. Sepals much undulated, brownish green, 

 the two lower ones pointed, the three upper emarginate 

 and rather shorter than the rest. Labellum bright yellow, 

 and about the length of the upper sepals. The lower 

 division is reniform and unguiculate ; the other two are 

 oblique, broad at their extremity, and somewhat crescent- 

 shaped. The fleshy part in the centre of the flower is 

 tuberculated, and beautifully marked with blood-red spots. 

 The lower edge is finely ciliated. The column in front is of 

 the same colour as the labellum ; behind and at its base it 

 is marked with deep red." 



