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Oncidium continued. Oncidium continued. ; 4 
O. meirax (boy). jl. with little yellow and brown spots sepals O. monoceras (one-horned): A synonym of O. unicorne. i 4 
and petals linear, a little narrowed at the base ; lip cordate, O. nigratum (blackish). f. cream colour, with dark blackish- q 
acuminate ; scape two-flowered. l. solitary on the oblong pseudo- brown spots and bands, disposed in branched panicles ; se 9 
bulbs, slightly emarginate. Caraccas and New Grenada, 1880. and petals linear-lanceolate, equal, and wavy. Guiana. i 
A singular plant, only a few inches high. (R. X. O. t. 18, 2 see ya a 
Fig. 3) [C] O. oblongatum (oblong-leaved).* fl. bright yellow, of g 3 
a p Winter. l. bright green, oblong, about Ift. long. Pseudo-bulhbs 
O. melanops (black-eyed). f. light yellow, with the bases of the short, thick. Guatemala, &c., 1844. A handsome, free-floweri 
, petals, and lip blackish-purple. Ecuador, 1881. In habit, species. (L. & P. F. G. ii. 9, Fig. 137.) ; P 
this species resembles C. chrysornis. i 3 8 O. obryzatum (refined). /l. bright golden-yellow, barret with 4 
o. meliosum (honey-scented). jl. very rich yellow, with cinnamon brown, about lin. across, yielding a delicious perfume ; spikes 
blotches ; small sepals, as well as the much larger petals, retuse ; numerous, long-branched, and many-flowered. Winter. Peru, 
basilar auricles of the lip square, the isthmus middle-sized, 1863. An easily-grown and very free-flowering species. 4 
and the anterior part reniform; column very small, of the most 925.) A 
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FIG. 731, ONCIDIUM PAPILIO, showing Habit and detached Flower. 
— sulphur-white, as well as the callus; panicle branched. O. octhodes (tubercled). fl. yellow, having the li — 
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va an i angle projecting from each side. New Grenada, 1876. beautifully . tae of O. bifolium, but the Feen 
O, Milliannm (ll). f, bright yellow, mottled with brown, the | Oa perfume somewhat resembling that of the Heliowpe, but Jes 
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bulbs ligulate, compressed. Columbia, 1878. : n glancous, Jin, to Zin. high. Mexico, 4e. 865. a wel 
A well-marked 
