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* OJNCIDIUM Cebolleia. 

 Chive-leaved Oncidium. 



GYNANDRIA MON ANURIA. 



Nat. ord. OrchidacejE, § Vande^. 

 ONCIDIUM. Supn), vol. 13. fol. 1050. 



O. Cebolleta ; foFiis radicalibus teretibus subulatis, scapo paniculato rigido 

 glutinoso, sepalis petalisque obovatis acutis concavis unguiculatis, labelli 

 laciniis lateralibus obovatis retusis intermedia reniformi uiululata emarginata, 

 crista imidentata truncata basi tuberculosa, alis columna; parvis camosis. 



Epidendrum Cebolleta. Jacq. stirj). Amcr.p. 230. t. \'i\. )i(j. 2. 



Oncidium Cebolleta. Swartz. act. Holm. 1800. /). 240. Willd. sp. pi. 4. 

 113. Gen. ^ Sp. Orch. p. 206. 



It is, I presume, impossible to determine with certainty 

 to which, out of two or three taper-leaved Oncidiums, the 

 name of Cebolleta was applied by Jacquin ; for he neither 

 describes nor figures the flowers of his plant. In this un- 

 certainty let the present, which agrees with the description 

 of that Botanist as far as it goes, bear the name. It is a 

 native of the Spanish Main, whence it was obtained by 

 Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton, who flowered it iu 

 February, 1836. 



It is clearly distinguished from O. nudum by the lateral 

 lobes of its lip being < bovate, and by the nature of the 

 tuberculated crest at its base. In all probability O. jun- 

 cifolium combined by me with ,0. Cebolleta will form 

 another species, but I do not possess the materials for 

 defining it. 



* Sec folio 1830. 



