ONCiDiuM. ORCHIDES. 783 



0. cosymhephorum Morren. Ann, Gand. t. 273, 



Many inore varietics miglit be enumerated. were it dcsirable— for ihis is evidenlly 

 a niost variable planl, consiant however in ihe form and proporlion of its parls. ihe 

 column and column-wings, and also in ihe crest, wiih ihe excepiion thatin D, which 

 may be a distinct species . an additional lubercle or two appears on the outside of 

 the otliers. 



Wild in Tropical America; A. ftJartinique -Sieber ; Trinidad— Hooker ; Mexico— 

 Schiede (Rchb.); B. Jamaica— Ilort. ; C. Mexico, near Tampico-Hartweg ; D, Santiago 

 in Cuba, on ihe Sierra Maestre, at the heiglit of 5000 ft.— Linden. 



Ad C ; Oncidium Lindeni Lodd. Cat. ed. 2. 1326. Sert, sub 48: 



Habit of a small 0. carlhaginense. Ldbellum inteiise black chocolate ; the flowers 

 nppear in a simple zigzag spike, which continues to grow afier ihe flowers have 

 fallen off, I did not see it in flower, — 



Lindl, Paxt, I. 185. N. 238. Journ, Hortic. Soc. VI; Oncidium hiridum alralum 

 Lindl. Mexico, Rich crimson flowers, Wheiher or not 0, luridum is really a mere va- 

 riety of the Carthag. Oncid., becomes more and more doubtful as our knowledge of 

 such plants extends. In ihe present instance it is unnecessary to open ihat queslion, 

 ihe planl now mentioned being undoubledly a very fine form of ihe 0. lurid., what- 

 ever the relalion of tlie lauer lo the Cartbagenen. 0. may finally prove to be. Wiih 

 ihe habit of the common form of the species this combines flowers smaller than 

 usual, very flat, wiih olive and rose coloured sepals and petals, and a rich crimson 

 lip furnished at the base with 5 purple black tubercles, 4 of which sourround the 

 flfih of these tubercles ; the central and iwo anterier are oblong and simple, ihe 

 two posterior are concave, or almost kldney-shaped, with the concavity backwards. 

 The wings of column are oblong, iruncated fleshy bodies aitached by the narrower 

 end, It is a flne var., in some rcsp, like the purple 0. haematochilum. 



Ad D; Oncidium iiilermcdium Knowl. Westc. Flor. Cab. II. (1838). 60: 



Foliis oblongis acuiis rigidis carnosis , scapo flexuoso paniculato ramoso multi- 

 floro, sepalis undulaiis unguiculatis subinlegris, supremo rotundato subcochleato, late- 

 ralibus spathulalis subreflexis, petalis late unguiculatis subrotundalis crenulato-cris- 

 pis , lahelli lobis lateralibus nanis revolutis intermedio reniformi undulato emargi- 

 nalo , crista postice lobis 2 crassis tuberculatis, antice callis 3 intermedio elevato 

 elongato lateralibus divergentibus, columnae alis carnosis obliquis supra margine re- 

 pando-sinuato infra auricula elongata. 



Oncidium sanguineum Lindl. Var. auriculalum Rgl. Ind. Sem. PelF. 55. {Oncid. 

 ornatum roseum et obsoletum roseum H, Petropol,): Sepalis petalisque luteis roseo- 

 msculatis, labello luteo-albo, columna alba lobis auriculaeformibus. Cetera ut genuini. 



Lindl. Paxt. Fl. Gernii. I. p. 21: ,,there is quite a buncli of tubercles at the base 

 of ihe lip.** 



132. ONCIDIUM HAEMATOCHILUM Lindl. in Paxt. FL Gard, t. 6. Lindl. Fol. 41: 



Intermediate as it were between 0. Lanceanum and luridum. Sepals and petals 

 grccn moitled wiih crimson, Lip crimson moiiled wiih white. Pollenmasses and 

 appendages thoso of 0. luridum. 

 Wild in New-Granada— Loddiges. 

 Lindi. 1. c. p. 21 : 



Ebulbe fi)liis oblongis planis, coriaceis, aculis, maculalis, solilariis, 

 racemis densis rigidis, sepalis liberis petalisque conformibus spathu- 

 latis undulalis, labello subrolundo basi auriculato, crisla basi obsoleta 

 antice flexuosa (litteram W. referente) inde in jugum producta denliculo 

 utrinque; columnae alis rotundatis decurvis sublobalis. 



In all varieties of Oncidium cnrlhaginense is a pair of strong warts in place of 

 the small teeib, one on eac.b sido of the aaterior clevatioa aod the W like body is di- 

 ^" Tided into two dislinct V's. 



