792 ORCIIIDES. 



ONCIDIUU. 



Guaiemala. Ilartweg. Skinncr. Mexico. Homluras. Loddiges. 



It is immediately known from Oncidium reflexum, Pelicanum, Baucri by ihe wings 

 of the column, which are long, noiched and bordered with brown. Two var. in cui- 

 tivaiion, one much handsomer, ihan llie other witii larger flowers. This is ihe in- 

 ferior sort. — Perigoniuin luieum. rubropiclum. 



Lindl. Sert. 48: 



Minus a wiih smolU-r flowers and ihe inflorescence composed only at the base 

 and P. majus wiih brighter yellow flowers and the inflorescence compound as far 

 almosl as ihe apex when ihe plant is in good health. This peculiarity seems lo 

 vary in form of ihe lip, some of ihe specimens being ahnost exactly pandurale. 



m. ONCIDIUM KAPPLERI Rchb. fil. in lilt. Lindl. Fol. p. 45 : 



Leaves ensiform, in wbich respect it resembles 0. altissimum. Column-wings 

 crisp, lobed, exlended into a tootlied truncated ligulate appendage at the base, resting 

 on a pair of projecting angles. Crest |. Hchb. distinguishes this which seems very 

 iiear 0. altissimum. I liave described the details of a sketcii sent me by Rchb.: but 

 I have had no opportutiity of exainining ihe plant satisfactorily. 



NVild in Surinam; Paramaribo, at 1600 ft.— Kappler. 



153. ONCIDIUM CAMINIOPHORUM Rchb. fiL in Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 857. L. F. p. 45: 



From a skelch of ihe foliage setit me by Prof. Rchb., this seems lo have the habit 

 of 0. llexuosum. The leaves are bluntly emarginate. The flowers rather smaller, 

 ,.yellow wilh niuch brown; lip yelloW, with some brown in front of ihe cresl. 

 Column slender with no projecling cheeks; the wings very narrow. Crest with one 

 long blunt principal tooth, at tlie base of which are three small sharp diverging ones 

 on each side , and at the point two liitle warts. Rchb., who saw it alive in a German 

 garden, compares it to Sultoni or tenue. 

 Wild in the Caraccas ; Carabobo— Wagener. 

 Rchb. 1. c. : 



Pseudobulbis oblongis compressis monopbyllis, foliis oblongis basi 

 altenuatis, apice obtuse emaiginalis, abbrevialis, panicula diffusa, peri- 

 gonii phyllis lanceolatis aculis basi cunealis, labello brevissime cuneato, 

 statim uirinque in lobos rolundatos dilatato, lobo medio ab angusla 

 basi dilatato, transverse rotundo, apice emarginalo, callo depresso baseos 

 in daclylos acutos adnatos producto , tuberculis quibusdam additis, 

 gynostemio recto, apice dilatalo, lovea slign^atica rolunda, parte infra- 

 sligmatica angusliori, depressa, inornala, alis triangulis deflexis minutis 

 pone basin foveae stigmalicae, rostello relusiusculo, trilobulo. 



Bliithen gelb mit viel Braun , Lipj)e gelb, ein paar braunrothe Flecke auf dem 

 Grunde des Mittellappens. Oncidium tenue Lindl. und SulloHi Lindl. kann man mit 

 diesem vergleichen: sie haben auch dreieckige, aber gespreizte Fiugel. Aus Caracas 

 von Hrn. Keferstein nach KroUwiiz eingefiihrt.— Rchb. fll. in Bonpl. II. 13: Carabobo 

 6000' Marz. Wagener. 



154. ONCIDIUM BAUERl LO. 200. Lindl. Fol. p. 45: 



0. altissimum Bol. Reg. t. 1851. 



Often mistaken for 0. altissimum, from which it di/Ters in its scape being 

 panicled from the very base, in iis longer pscudobulbs, and sharply truncated 

 column-wings. 



Wild in the West-Indies and Coniinent; Dominica— Imray in hb. Hooker. 



Lindl. G. Chr. 1850. p. 600. p, 600: differs from Oocidiura altissimum bj its con- 

 tracted panicle. 



Lindl. Sert. Orch. sub t. 48: 



Pseudobulbis oblongis compressis leviter ancipitibus, foliis lato lan- 

 ceolatis acuminatis scapo erecto multo brevioribus, racemo composito, 



