1758 



* ONCfDlUM citiliiuin. 

 Lemon- coloured Ojicidium. 



GYNANDRIA MO^'A^DIUA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide^e § Vande^, Lindl. (Introduction to the Natural 

 System of Botany, p. 262.) 



ONCIDIUM.— Supra, vol. U.fol. 1050. 



O. citrhwm ; pseudobulbis oblongis comprcssis, follis cnsiforinibus rigidis scapo 

 simplici brevioribus, sepalis petalisque labelli longitudine lineari -oblongis 

 undulatis, labello cordato utrinque introrstim arcuato apice dilatato subreni- 

 formi, crista 8-tuberculatapubesceiite, alls minimis, stigmate orbiculari. 



P/aw^a O. altissimo (fol. 1651.) valde ajffinis et forte mcra varietas. 

 Diversa tamen videiur scapo non ramoso, foribus parum maculatis, sepalis 

 petalisque minus acuminatis, crista tuberculatd potius qiiam diyitatd, demam 

 alis minimis, et stigmate orbiculari nee angusto comjjressoque. 



A native of Trinidad, whence it was introduced by Messrs. 

 Loddiges, in whose collection our drawing was made last 

 November. Unfortunately the plant soon after sickened and 

 died ; so that it is for the present lost to the country. 



It approaches very nearly to O. altisshimm^ figured at fol. 

 1651 of this work ; and is principally distinguished by the 

 following characters. Its flowering stem is simple and not 

 branched ; its flowers are of a pale lemon colour, very dis- 

 tant from each other, and by no means so much spotted ; 

 the crest of the lip consists of about eight warts, wliich are 

 slightly downy, and not of nine smooth finger-like j)ro- 

 cesses ; its stig-ma is nearlv orbicular, and not lon<j; and 

 narrow, and the wings of the column are exceedingly small; 

 and finally, both the pseudo-bulb and the leaves have a 

 singularly yellow tint, as we are informed by Mr. George 

 Loddiges. 



Like the rest of the genus it requires a hot and damp 

 stove. 



* See folio 151: 



