ONCIDICM. 



ORCHIDES. 705 



lODgr. scrambling. Flowers very iarge, brown. N. 626. A noble species witli nowor.s 

 more than 3 inciics in diamcter. Leaves eighteen inches long , IV2 wide. 



Rchb. 01. in Donpl. II. 12: Die ganze Dluthe rolhbraun , Tejiala und oberes Se- 

 palum gelh bcrandet, Lippenwulst eben so. Scharfgepresste Exemplare Linden'.s 

 sehen verschieden aus, ohne einen wesenilichen Anhalt zur Unterscheidung zu bieteii. 

 Die Grosse der Deciiblatter weicbt etwas ab. Caracas. 6000". Wagener. 



Rchb. Hl. Bonpl. II. 279. Dliithen braun. Tepala mit Goldgelb eingefasst; an ein- 

 ander sich legend bilden dieselben einen Ring. 7000'. Ocanna. Juli. Nr. 31. Schlim. 



7 bis. ONCIDIUM PAVONH. Rchb. fil. Wswz. Lindl. Folia 1. c. N. 7 bis p. 5: 



Of whGse Jip and colnmn I am favoured with a skelch by Ihe lear- 

 ned aulhor, aj)pears to be a variety of Ihis. A fragment from Pavon 

 exists in Boissier's herbarium. 



8. ONCIDIUM AEMULUM Rchb. fil. in Bonpl. Ap. 15. 1854. Lindl. I. c. sub 8. p. 5 : 



A noble species, with dense cinnamon-brown flowers two inches and a half in 

 diameter, arranged upon a clirabing panicle, which reaches 10 the top of trees twenty^ 

 flve or ihirty feet high.— Schlim. When dried it looks lilte 0. macranthum , but i.s 

 quiie different in the lip , which is dilated and angularly rounded at the base, linear 

 channelled in the middle lobe, with a downy convex crest, crenated in front and 

 arching over several small round warts. One of the leaves in Schlim's specimen is 

 almost two feei long. 



Wild in Peru— Warczewicz. New-Granada in the province of Ocanna at 7500 feet. 

 -Schlim, 413; near la Baja in Pamplona, at 10,000 ft.— Schlim, 1198. (fide Rchb.). 



Rchb. fil. v. Warscwz. BonpL II. 102 : 

 Aff. 0. superbienti labello hgulalo lineari basi utrinque angulato, ca- 

 rina basilari iricaiinulata velutina, additis carinuhs, gynostemii alis fal- 

 catis ascendentibus. 



Paniculae rami elongati, robusli, — 6flori . internodia bipollicaria , bracteae charta- 

 ceae ovatae acutiusculae cymbiformes, ovaria pedicellata dimidio aequantes, sepala 

 anguste unguiculata , sepalum dorsale ab ungue trilineari basi utrinque minuie lobu- 

 lato cordiforme angulis obtusatis, paulolongius quam latius, margine valde crispu- 

 lum, sepala lateralla paulo longius et latius unguiculata, basi praesertim externa mi- 

 nuie lobulata. lamina illi subaequalis, minus crispa ; tepala brevius (IV2 lin.) ac latius 

 unguiculaia, lamina oblonga acutiuscula seu acuta a basi hastata obtusangula crispa, 

 labellum ligulato lineare acutum , basi utrinque anguste semirotundo ligulato scmi- 

 ovatove lobulatum. carina velutina tricarinulala a gynostemii basi usque in basin lobi 

 medii ascendente , ibi praerupte nasuto decisa aniice laieribusque pluriverruculosa, 

 carinulae extrorsae a centro in limbum anticum loborum lateralium. Gynosiemium 

 abbreviaium incurvum. postice apice triangulo ascendens, dorso glaberrimum, basis 

 infrasligmatica paulisper protrusa , alae juxla raediara foveam assurgenti falcalae 

 parvae nunc denticulatae. Fast eben so gross als das herrlicbe Oncidium macran- 

 ihum. Oncidium halteratum hai sitzende Tepala ; 0. superbiens ist durch die lang 

 ausgezogene dreieckige Lippe mit 2 Seitenzahnchen ohne alle Lappung gleich zu 

 unierscheiden; ausserdem kennen wir kein beschriebenes Oncidium dieser Abtheilung 

 mii ahnlichen Flugelchen, v. Warscewicz. 



Rchb. fil. Bonpl. II. 273. Ocanna. 8—10000'. Januar 413. — Pamplona : La Baia. 

 Nr. 1198. Schlim. 



Rchb. t\\. Bonpl. III. 66. Ocanna. 6000'. Wagener. 



9. ONCIDIUM SUPERBIENS Rchh. (II. in Linnaea XXII. 813. L. F. p. 7: 



Much liKC 0. halteratum, to which I refer Schlim's 387 as it siands in my o^jvn 

 herbarium. oliliougli Mr. Rcichenbach"s specimen.s baving ihe same numher belong to 

 this. Il diilers in liaving llie peinls very much sinuated , wilh the upp<.'r lialf yollow, 

 and ihe lower banded wilh ihe eamc colour. Tlic cresl of ihc li)) coiisisls of onc 

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