[PjLAlE 65.] 
THE TEEEE-TONGUED OXCID. 
(ONCIDIUM TRILINGUE.) 
A Hothouse 
te, from Peru, hehnging to the Orchidaceous Order 
^pttiSc €l)KVHCtCV. 
TEE THREE'TONGUEB ONCID. Raceme somewhat 
twining, panicled at the base. Flowers thin. Bracts 
oblong, spathaceous, four times shorter than the ovary. 
Lateral sepals unguieulate, connate at the base, lanceolate, 
long, wavy ;" that at the back roundish ovate, crisp, the 
claw eared at the base and as long as the column. Petals 
lanceolate, revolute, very crisp. Lip dagger-shaped, 
crisp, revolute ; the segments at the base coarsely 
toothed, fleshy, ascending, with a very large convex crest, 
three-tongued in front, having two tubercles behind, a 
thin plate lying between, and a fleshy tooth on each side. 
Column smooth^ with small bristle-shaped wings. 
ONCIDIUM TRILINGUE, (Microchila) folHs . . ., racemo 
subvolubili basi paniculato, floribus raris, braeteis oblongis 
spathaceis ovario quadruple brevioribus, sepalis lateralibus 
unguiculatis basi connatis lauceolatis undulatis elongatis 
dorsali subrotundo-ovato crispo ungue auriculato columnce 
longitudine, petalis lanceolatis revolutis \'alde cri?pis, 
labelli pugioniformis cinspi revoluti auriculis grosB^ 
dentatxs camosis ascendentibus crista znaxlma valde 
convex^ a fronte trilingui h. tergo bituberculata laminA 
tenni interjecta denticulo camoso utrinque, columnse 
glabrae alis parvis setacels. 
Oncidium trilingue : mprhy vol, i„ p, 42, no. 63 
THIS curious plant has already been noticed in our 
ce above mentioned* Since then 
our artist to produce a coloured 
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'ure 
with 
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unKke aiivthinff in our 
nature 
with large and unusually unguiculated 
Kuntk and 
