718 ORCIIIDES. 



ONCIDIOM. 



uppermost are much the longest. Tho plant is stated by M. Linden to varj with 

 •white or rose-coloured flowers, as well as in siaiure — a large form growing: in the 

 Pine forests of Yaiera , in Cuha , the smailer on CofTee-irees in ihe Sierra Maestre- 

 and on (he Liban mountain. 



Wild in Cuha— Linden, 1759 ; St. Bnrtholomew's— Fournstrom in hb. Rchb. 

 LindL L c, p. 166: 



Foliis aculis' carnosis eqnilantibns serrulalis, floribus velutinis pa- 

 niculalis, sepalo dorsali obcoidalo lateribns in unum oblusum cochlea- 

 tum connalis, pelalis snboibicularibus basi paulnlnm anguslalis, labelli 

 laciniis laleralibus rolimdalis, qnam pelnla mullo minoribus in inier- 

 niediam decurrenlibus lalam ses.silem bilobam; ciistae lubercnlis 2 pos- 

 ticis elon.calis Iriliiisqne minoribus anticis, alis columnae acinaciformi- 

 bus obiu>is integeirimis. 



0. variegaium Orch. Lind. Ciiha. 



Lindl. Orch. Lind. p. 13. Kr. 7"^. A gracefu! epiphjte. Localities of Oncidium 

 Lemonianum etc. quae supra. 



38. O.NCIIHUM V.Anii:G.\TUM Swarlz I. c. suh 38. p. 13: 



When in healili ihe leaves are lleshy, ihree or four inches long, equitant, sharp- 

 poinled , and very imich hroken nt ihe edge. The panicie is a foot and a half high, 

 erect, wiih llat. pink flowers , richly stained with ciimanion-red on ihe ppials, and at 

 the bnse of ihe sepals arid lip. The lower sepals form a blunt spoon-shaped hody ; (he 

 peiais are large. ohovaie, almosl retuse, wiih an iniermediate point ; the lip has the 

 middle lohe disiincily placed upon a somewhat serraied islhmus; the crnst consists 

 of two sels of luhercles. one lying on the other. the upper set made up of two larga 

 lateral oncs, and a minutc one in the middie , ihe lower set, of (hree equal bluot 

 ones, the intermediaie of which is curved upwards. 



Wild in ihe We.st-Indies ; Sl. I)oming:o, Mackenzie , chiedy in the Cibao district, 

 where it is called ,.Angelida" — Schomburgk ; Cuba — Sir C. Lemon. 



Lindl. Sert. sub 48: Foliis oblongis acuiis , complicaiis falcaiis margine carlilagi- 

 nco strrulatis, scapo mullifloro simplici panioulaio, sepalis oltlusis, sublobaiis, labelli 

 lobis Inleralibus ovaiis obiusis rocurvis, iniermedio reniformi undulato bilobo rainori- 

 bus, cri«ia irilamellata, coiumnae alis acinaciformibus integris. 



Sl. Domingo, Cuba. 



Dist. from 0. teirapeialum by its broader, serrulated leaves. and its acuminate, not 

 obtuse! sepals. It is also a much larger piant. 



Lindl Piixt. I. p. 165. t. 33: Foliis carnosis acuminatis serrulalis, (loribus panicu- 

 lalis , sepalis inferioribus in unum cochlealum connaiis, peialis ohovatis unguiculatis 

 emarginniis cuspidaiis, lubeili laciniis lateralihus nanis ncutis. intermedia lata biloba 

 ungue deniiculaio, crisla du[ilici superne biloba, inferne Sloba, alis columnae aci- 

 nacifurmibus acuininaiis iniegerrimis. 



The vnriegaied Oncid i$ very like 0. tetrapeialum . from which it differs In having 

 the leaves broken up at the edge, petals coloured . broad and cuspidate, not herba- 

 ceous , bliint and serrulate . iii ihe double sepals being blunt and spooushaped , not 

 divided irilo two taperpointed di\isioiis aiid in its riclier culours. 



Sfcb. ONCIDIUM LKIBOLDI Rchb. fil. in Ilerb. : 



P^oliis obbrevialis atinnoformiliiis oculis, dorso ac venlre relu<:o 

 crenulalis, doisoreclis, veilice semiovalis siccis bh;ne nervosi^ pedun- 

 culis snpt^rne raceinosis, pancifloiis, sepido summo cuutiolo obion;.'0 ob- 

 luso, inkrioii paulo laliore biiieivi, bidenlalu. lep;ilis cunealo obloniris 

 Oblusis, loi)j.'ioiibus , qtialer bilioiibus , hibello panduralo partiiioniltus 

 poslicis liianpulis limbo anlice denticulalis, poitionibus anlicis semi- 

 obiongis semicordalis anlice isthiuo separatis , aulice denliculalis 



