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Oncidium — continued. 



auricles at base, a long, narrow neck, and a broad, four-lobed 

 blaUe, the outer lobes broadest ; raceme many-flowered. 1886. 

 A showy species. [T.] 



O, raniferum major (frog-bearing, larger). A synonym of 

 0, Hookeru 



O- Rigbyanum (Rigby*s). A synonym of 0. sarcodes. 



O. Ro^ersii (Rogers'). A variety of 0. 

 varicoaam. 



O, roSGum (rosy). A synonym of O. car- 

 thaginense samjuineum. 



O. sanguincum (bloody). A variety of 

 0, cart hag inenae, 



O. sarcodes discoidale (discoid). A 



trifling variety, having no spots on the 

 front part of the lip. 1886. 



O. Spnicel (Spruce'iO- rf. bright yellow, 

 produced in great profusion ; sepals and 

 petals blotched rtd above, obovate, 

 obtuse ; lip having the transverse middle 

 lobe narrowly clawed, two-lobed, stained 

 red at base ; panicles flexuous, I. some- 

 times 24ft. long. Brazil. Allied to O. Ce- 

 bolleta, IT.l 



O. stelligcnim (star-bearing). JL stel- 

 late, pauiciilato ; sepals and petals yel- 

 lowish, with many brown spots, oblong- 

 ligulate; lip yellowish-white, with a 

 darker yellow callus, the lateral lobes 

 short, obtuse-angled, the isthmus narrow, 

 the middle lobe roundish- cordate, shortly 



and abruptly cuspidate. Mexico. Allied 



to O. hatitatmn, [C] 



O. s, KrnestKErnest's). /. pale yellow, 

 with large, rounded, brown spots on the 

 sepals and petals, and a reildish-purple 

 front lobe to the lip. Mexico, 1887. 

 (W. U. A. vi. 260.) IC] 



O. superWens (superb). Jl. 2jin, in 

 diameter; sepala chocolate-brown, tipped 

 yellow, lon^-clawed, tlie upper one much 

 crisped, renexed at apex, the lateral ones 

 more ovate and less curved ; petals 

 smaller, yellow above, barred chocolate 

 below, cordate -oblong, recurved, with a 

 shorter and broader claw ; lip blackish- 

 purple, with a yellow crest, very snialU 

 revolute ; panicle loose, flexuous, twenty 

 to thirty-flowered ; scape (and inflores- 

 cence) 2ft. to 3ft. long. I about 1ft. 

 long, linear - oblong, acute, keeled. 

 Pseudo-bulbs elongate -ovate, compressed, about 4in. long. 

 Grenada, Venezuela. (B. M. 5980.) [T.] 



O. tigrinum lugens (mournful). /f., sepals and petals of a 

 iiuiforra. dark reddish-brown inside, the tips yellow, the dorsal 

 keels green. 1886. *^ 



OncidivLm— continued, 



O. Warneri (Warner's). /I. five to eight iu a short raceme ; 

 sepals oval, spreading; petals narrower and ascending; lip 

 bright yellow, three-lobed, flat, the middle lobe deeply parted 

 into two roundish lobes. Autumn. /. linear-lanceolate, recurved. 

 Pseudo-bulbs ovate, ancipitous, two-leaved. Mexico. Syn. 

 Odontoglossum Warneri purpttratum (B. B. 1847, 20), There are 

 two varieties : purpuratuin^ sepals and petals white, streaked 



Fig, 50. Flowering Branches of Opuntia macrorhiza. 



New 



ONCOMA. 

 OKOSMA. 



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Fio. *9. Floweri.n'g Branches of Opuntia Fii^ipENPUu. 



bright purple ; sordidum, sepals and petals dull yellow, streaked 

 purple. [C.l 



A synonym of Oxera (which see). 



To the species described on p. 498, 

 Vol. II., the following should now 

 be added: 



O.pyramidalis(pyramidal). fl. drooping:, 

 disposed in nodding, short racemes ; sepals 

 ^in. long, narrow-lanceolate, free to the 

 base; corolla bright scarlet, fading to 

 lilac, about as long as the sepals, nearly 

 ellipsoid, with a rather contracted, trun- 

 cate mouth, sparingly pubescent. Octo- 

 ber. /., radical ones numerous, rosulate, 

 lOin. to 12in. long, nearly lin, broad, 

 narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed 

 towards the base ; cauline ones 4in. to 

 6in. longr, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Stem l^ft. to 2ft. high, stout, terete, pyra- 

 midally branched. Whole plant covered 

 with white hairs. Western Himalayas, 

 1886. (B. M. 6987.) 



OFLISMENTTS. To the species 



described on p. 501, Vol. II., the fol- 

 lowing should now be added: 



O. Burmanni albidnlum (whitishV /. 



mostly white, with a i;reen stripe along 

 the midiib. India. 1886. A pretty, stove 

 or greenhouse (^rass, of dwarfer and more 

 compart habit than the comm'^'U varie- 

 gated form, 0. B. va7-\erjatus (Paniciim 

 vanegatum, of gardens), 



OPUNTIA, To the species de- 

 scribed on pp. 502-4, Vol. II., the fol- 

 lowing should now be added; 



