[Plate 33.J 
THE YAEIEGATED ONCID. 
(ONCIDIUM VARIEGATUM.) 
A Stove Epiphyte, from the West Indies, belonging to the Natural Order of OnCHm 
specific Character. 
THE VARIEGATED ONCID.— Leaves acuminate, fleshy, 
equitant, serrulate. Flowers panicled ; ]ower sepals united 
into one spoon-shaped body. Petals obovate, emarginate, 
unguiculate, cuspidate. Lip with small acute lateral lobes, 
a broad 2-lobed middle lobe with a denticulate unguis, and 
a double fleshy crest, the upper half consisting of two lobes, 
the lower of three. Wings of column hatchet -shaped, 
acuminate, entire. 
ONCIDIUM VARIEGATUM 
tantia) ; foliis carnosia 
acuminatis serrulatis ; floribus panieulatis, aepalis infen- 
oribus in usum cochleatum *connatis, petalis obovatis 
unguiculatis emarginatis cuspidatis, labelli laciniis later* 
alibus nanis acutis intermedia lata biloba ungue denticulate, 
crista duplici superne 2-Ioba inferne 3-loba, alis columnar 
jir»ina^iforniibus acuminatis integerrimis. 
Uncidium 
{ Lindl. gen. et. sp. Orch. p. 1 98. 
HPHis charming little plant was first introduced from the Havannah 
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•al 
rare, aided by native specimens 
obtained 
quarter of the natural size. 
& 
When in health the leaves axe fleshy, 3 or 4 inches long, equitant, sharp pointed 
ery much 
broken at the edge. The panicle is a foot and a half high, erect, and decorated with flat, pink 
flowers, richly stained with cinnnmon-red on the sepals, and at the base of the sepals and lip. The 
lower sepals form a blunt spoon-shaped body; the petals are large, obovate, almost retuse with an 
intermediate nomt : the lip has the middle 
large 
and hitherto, in cultivation, not more than a 
