ONCIDIUM. 



ORCHIDES. 789 



pig wird, die Farbe, die Lippensclnviele und die Eckcn unier der Narbe zeichnen 

 sie hinlangiich aus. Caracas. Wagener 



145. ONCIDIUM PARDALIS Rchb. fil in Bonpl., Ap. I. 1854. Xenia ined. L, F. 43: 



Apparenlly a small species wilh tlie habit of 0. cardiosligma. Scape fewflowered 

 racemose. Sepals and petals exactly alike, lanceolate. Lip nearly as broad at the 

 point as the base, denliculate at the incurved sides. Coknnn slender and without 

 projecting cheeks; wings merely two inconspicuous niembianous teelh.'|^FIower3 

 yeilow wilh biue ! (blauen) flecks. I have a figure from Prof. Rclib. 

 Wild in La Guayra— Wagener. 

 Rchb. fli. l c. IL 13: 



Pedunculo gracili spitliamaeo, basi muUivaginalo, apice flexuoso, 

 racenioso, bracteis ovariis elonij^alis mullo brevioribus, sepalis tepalisque 

 unguiculatis lanceolatis aculis undulalis, labello panduraeformi, basi 

 angusliore, medio paulo constriclo, callo basilari depresso, postice 

 transverse gyroso, utrinque bidentalo, medio carinalo, gynostemio in- 

 curvo, stigmate abbreviato ulrinque pone basin minute unilobulalo 

 (alarum loco), tabula infrastigmatica elongala, utroque margine emar- 

 ginata. 



La Guayra. Bliiihen so gross , wie bei vorigem , gelb mit blauen Fleckchen auf 

 Perigon und Lippengrund; die Spiizen der Perigonialblalter sind ungefleckt. 

 Caracas Wagener. 



146. ONCIDIUM CARDIOSTIGMA Rclib. fll. in Bonpl.. Ap. I. 1854. Lindl. Fol. 43: 



Seen in cultivation wilh Booih and Sons, of Hamburgh, Pseudobulb slender, nar- 

 row, two-edged, furrowed. Leat about four inches long, narrow, complicate, oblique 

 at the point, Scnpe shorter ihan ihe leaf, ihree or four flowered. Flowers small, 

 with brown sepals and petals, the last of which are ihe widest; lip yeltow, brown 

 at the base. Column with two small auricles on each side, instead of column-wings. 



Wild?; said to come from Mexico. 



Hchb. fll. in Bonpl. IL p. 91 : 



Ab omnibus recedit lobulis quadrigeminis alarum loco et calla 

 depressis quadrato apice el basi bilobulato, Jobulo quinto antice super- 

 posilo. 



Pseudobulbus gracilis oblongus anguslius anceps, utrinque bicoslalus. Folia ligu- 

 lala, apice valde inaequall Liloba. — Bracieae scariosae acutae ovarii pedicellati 

 quintam aequantes. Scpala cblonga oblusiuscula , tepala prope duplo laliora. La- 

 bellum a basi brevissime unguiculata postico utrinque angulalum, taliusculum , dein 

 subangustalum , medio in laminam reniformem, alle bilobam expansum, lobo altero 

 in alterum imbricato. Callus baseos quadratus. postice ulroque lalere unitubercula- 

 tus, ajiice in tres lobulos roiundatos txpansus , medio sn|ierposiio. Gynostemium 

 gracile. fovea siigniatica rhonibea basi retusa , auriculae !i acutae minutac utrinque 

 pone apicem et basin foveae sibi supcrposilae , labula infrasligmatica nuUo pacio 

 producia. 



147. O.NCIDIUM TETROTIS Rchb. fil. in Bonpl.. May I. 1853. Lindl. Fol. 44 : 



Paiiicle long, with short branches. Flowers as large as in 0. Baueri, Sepals 

 and petals brown. Lip yellow. Crest horse-shoc-shnped at ihe baso, wiih ihe con- 

 veiily next the column; in llie curve lies a papillosc convcxity , and in front of all 

 are aboui four small warts. Two very minute rudimenls pluced one above ihe oiher 

 on eilher side of ihe stigma represent the column-wings. Frora a sketch by Rchb. 

 and his descripiion. 



Wild in New-Granada— Warczewicz. 



Rdib. fil. Warsczewicz I. c. 11. 109: 

 Aff. 0. citrino labello anlice valde dilalalo, anguiis posticis prope 



