776 ORCHIDES. 



ONCIDIUM. 



minalis, columnae alis carnosis linearibus oblusis elongalis genuflexis 



decurvis. 



Sent fiom ihe neighboorliood of Vera Cruz to Hortic. Soc. by their collecior, 

 Wr. Harlweg. Pale straw-coloured llowers; about as large as ihose of 0. flexuosum. 

 wilh a faint smell of primroses. The base of ihe lower sepals , the lower part of 

 Ihe lip, ihe column. and a line along' ihe origin of ihe petnls are neally dotted with 

 brown. Honey is sccreted by ihe lip at the base of the lateral lobes. ne.\t ihe co- 

 luran. Young plants are very like Oncidium pumilum. for which thoy may be mis- 

 takenl. but they have much thicker leaves. 



Bol. Reg. XXVI. 1840. 14 : It was one of ihe flrst plants senl from Vera Cruz to 

 ihe Hort. Soc. by Mr. Hartweg. who found it at a place called Zacuapan, where some 

 oiher flne things (especially the rare and beautiful Berberis tenuifolia) were obtained. 

 This species ii readily known when out of flower by ils rigid fleshy unspolted leaves 

 rounded. noi kceled, at llie back. 



124. ONCIDIUM CHEIROPllORUM Rchb. fil. in Bot. Zeitg. 1852. p. 695. Xen. ined. 

 Lindl. Fol. p. 36 : 



A very curious plant nearly allied lo 0. slramineum. Flowers not a quarter tlie 

 size, clear yellow. whole-coloured, Column with large falcaie wings , curved down- 

 wards as in ihe Sarcopterous Plurilubercnlaie race, bul not ai all fleshy; in front 

 it has a strong recurved tootli. Siigma rostrale. Crest of lip membranous , arched, 

 and iwo-lobed in front, with a pair of teeth at its base. It exisis in Senator Jenisch'3 

 garden in Hamburgh. 



Rchb. fil. I. c. 695: 



Phyllo summo oblongo cuneato, acuto, rebquis subaequalibus, late- 

 ralibusinlernis tamen paulo latioribus, labeiio basi utrinque acute auri- 

 culato, dein Irilobo, ulrinque in alam obluse ligulatam divaricatam ex- 

 panso, lobo medio producto subsessili biiobo, multo angustiori; callo 

 depresso papyraceo anlrorsum quadrilobo inter Jobos divaricatos; gy- 

 noslemii gracilis alis dolabriformibus, anlrorsum minute serratis, fal- 

 cula sursum curvata in basi gynostemii; anlhera ac rostello ornilhor- 

 rhynchis. 



Niedliche Arl. Biuthen ..gelbgrun" ; Lippe schon gelh, fast so gross wie die des 

 0. ornilhorrhynchum, niit dem die Pllanze grosse Aehnlichkeit besiizt. TrugknoIIen 

 ,,rund, zwcischneidig''; Blatter langiich, schmal , spiizlich; Rispe armbluihig, kurz- 

 zweigig . zart. Der Haken an der Seite ist ein neues Atiribut, viel ausgezeichneter 

 als die Zierralh bei 0. planilabre I-indl. 



Rchb. fil. I. c. 924: (basilaia!). Diese Pflanze bluht jelzt bei Herrn Senaior Jenisch 

 umer der Culiur des Hrn. Kramer. Sie hat ein hochst eigenthumliches Ansehen. Das 

 obere Hullbialt deckt helmig die Saule , die seitliclien Lippenlappen slehen vertical 

 herabgeschlagen. der Millellappen der Lippe ist seitlich eingerollt. — Der wunder- 

 bare Zahn isl wciter nichts, als die bekannle unlernarbige Leisle, welche auf iiber- 

 raschende VVeise vorwarts und abwiirts geschoben ist. Farbe doitergelb , aussere 

 Hullblaiier grunlich . die seiilichen , unteren liegen neben einander, mit breiier 

 Flache an einander gedruckt unter der Lippe. 



Wild in Veragua ; volcano of Chiriqui— VVarscewicz. 



125. ONCIDIUM WARNERI Lindl. Fol. p. 36: 



Odontoglossum yVarncri Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1845. Misc. 54; 1817. t. 20. 



(A) «ordidum. Sepals and pelals yellowish, streaked wiih purple. 



(B) purpuratum. Sepals and peials whiie . sireaked wiih bright purple. 



A plant with conical caespitose pseudobuibs . and recurved grassy leaves, longer 

 than ibe short raceme. Lip brighi yellow, equally four-lobed. Sepals aod peials 

 purple, equal. recurved at the points. 



Wild in Mexico— Loddiges. 



