ONCIDIUM. 



ORCHIDES. 717 



33. ONCIDIU.M UaOPHYLLUM Lodd. Cat. ed. 2., nr. 1381. Lindl. 1. c. sub 33. p. 12: 



Flowers \n a loose panicle, deep yeliow above, pallid benealh, wilh crimson slains 

 abonl the crest ond at ibe basc of ibe petals. 

 Wihl in Drazil. Loddiges. 



Lindl. Sert. sub 48 : Flowers brigbt yellow, iti a slender delicate panicle, as niucb 

 as 4' long. Centre of tbe lip and base of tbe petals reddish brown. 

 Lindl. Dot. Rcg. XXVIII. (1842.) 54: 



Foliis equitanlibns margine plano acufissimis , scapo longo pendulo 

 paniculato, sepalis linearibus acuminalis lateialibus ad apicem fere con- 

 nalis, pelalis obovalo-subrolundis apiculalis, labelli lobis laleralibus bre- 

 vibus convexis oblusis , intermedio unguiculalo leniformi emarginato, 

 cristae luberculis duobus uno ante alterum trilobis , coiumnae alis ma- 

 ximis acinacilormibus rotundalis. Brazil. 



34. ONCIDIUM MIR.ACILE Kcbb. fll. Lindl, Fol. Nr. 34. Cf. Lockbarliam. 



35. ONCIDIUM O.NUSTUM Lindl. Fol. sub 35. p. l^. 



Flowers large. very densely arranged in a nodding raceme, apparenlly white. Co- 

 lumn very short, wiib two long linear arms. Lip wiih a crest consisling of Ibree 

 rounded concave lobes. Dy niistake this bas been .hitherto misplaced in the genus 

 its equitanl lcaves boving been overlooked. 



Wild in Panania and Wcstern Columbia. Cuming 1208. 



36. ONCIDIUM TETBAPETALUM Lindl. FoL snb 36. p. 12: 



(A.) Flowers small, dingy brown, with rose-coloured speckles. 

 0. panciflorum LO. p. 198. 



(B.) Flowers large, in a close panicle, brilliantly coloared wbite, greea and 

 crimson. 



0. tricolor llooker, Bot. Mag. t. 4130. 



A very common and rather variable West Indian plant, always having a lip snow- 

 white except around ilie crest. There is no dilTerence belween A. and B. cxcept, 

 that ibe lattcr is on a larger scale, and has very bright green sepals and petnls 

 bamied wiih crimson. A narrow-ieaved var. found by Lobb in N. Grenada occurs in 

 Sir W. Hooker's herbarium. Il is evident ibe plarit varies niuch in size. 



Wild in tbe West Indies ; A. Jomaica— Swartz; Mexico— Pavon ; N.-Grenada— Lobb. 

 D. Jamaica ?— Purdie? Cumana-Fink, 293, in bb. Ilooker. 



Lindl. Dot. Reg. 1838. (XXlV.) Misc. 56: Flowered iateiy in the Garden of Duri. 

 Soc. iniported by [Jolin Ilenry Lancas, Esq. from Jamaica. It proves to have Iri- 

 quetrous leaves, and tberefore lias been arranged in ils wrong place in ihe work 

 above quoted, Altbough ibe flowers ore among the smallest in the genus, they are 

 extremely prelty. Tlie labelium is a pure dead alabasier wbite , exccpt at its base, 

 where it is covered wiih yellow and brown lubercies. Tbe sepals and petals are 

 gaily barredj and spotted wiih brown, wbile ibc colnmn lias 2 large pink s|)ottcd 

 spreading wings. J.icq. descrilies tbe sjiecies as having a floweriiig scape 2' higb ; 

 tbat which appears in ibe Hortic. Gard. was scarcely 6" bigh , for ilio plant llioiigb 

 healthy was weak and had sulTered from its voyage, Wlien in perfcction this species 

 will be found among the liandsomcst of tbe smalinowered epiphytes. 



Liiidl. Seri. sub 48: ,,crisia bis — ler luberculata , alis columnae magnis acinaci- 

 formibus deniiculatis." — A sniall species , witb olive brown flcwlers , whose lip is 

 pure white excepi in ihe middle. Tlie crest consisls of 6 blunl tubercles in iwo 

 series, one resting on ihe oiher. 



32. O.NCIDIUM VELUTIiNUM Lindl. in Paxl. FL Gard. under t. 33. L. F. 13: 



In general appearance, tbis and 0. variegaium correspond , os nlso in the ragged 

 edge of ihe foliage; bui tliey difl^er in the flotvers of ihis being downy , ihe wings of 

 ibe column blunt, ibe mjildle lobe of tbe lip perfectly sessile . and tbe laieral lobes 

 joining it by a broal base. Thc crcst, too , consisis of flve tubercles , of which ihe 



