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THE VARIEGATED ONCID. 
of which is curved upwards. 
minute one in the middle, the lower set, of three equal blunt 
This Variegated Oncid is very like the Tetrapetalous Oncid, from which it differs in having the 
leaves broken up at the edge, petals coloured, broad and cuspidate, not herbaceous, blunt and 
serrulate, m the double sepal being blunt and spoon-shaped, not divided into two taper-pointed 
divisions, and in its richer colours. 
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But this does not apply to the Cuba specimens referred to the Variegated Oncid in the Orchidace* 
LindemaruE, winch certainly belong, at least in part, to a distinct species. It is the more necessary 
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under 
name erroneously applied to it in the work above quoted, by the writer of the present article, who 
Variegated Oncid. In general 
cunespona wim it, and also m the ragged edge of the foliage ; but they differ in the flowers being 
downy, the wings of the column blunt, the middle lobe of the lip perfectly sessile, and the lateral 
lobes joining it by a broad base. The crest, too, consists of five tubercles, of which the uppermost 
are much the longest. The plant is stated by Mr. Linden to vary with white or rose-coloured flowers, 
as weU as m stature-a large form growing in the Pine forests of Yatara, in Cuba ; the smaller on 
Lottee trees m the Sierra Maestre, and on the Liban mountain. But it is probable that this applies 
to both the species m question. 
In order to enable those who may possess the second species to identify it, if indeed it does occur 
&pzti%t Character, 
TH JLZfJL V w Y 0N( ; ID -~ Leaves acu *e, fleshy, equitant, ONCIDIUM VELUTINUM 
serrulate. Flowers velvety, panicled. Back sepal obcordate, 
lower united into one spoon-shaped body. Petals nearly 
orbicular, a little narrowed to the base. Lip with rounded 
lateral divisions much smaller than the petals, abruptly 
passing into the broad 2-lobed middle division, without the 
intervention of any unguis ; crest consisting of two long 
posterior cylindrical lobes, and three smaller short ones in 
front. Wings of column hatchet-shaped, blunt, entire. 
— (Equitantia) ; foliis acutis 
carnosis equitantibus serrulatis, floribus velutinis pani- 
culatis, sepalo dorsali obcordato lateralibus in unum 
obtusum cochleatum connatis, petalis suborbicularibus 
basi paululum angustatis, labelli laciniis lateralibus rotun- 
datis quam petala muito minoribus in intermediam decur- 
rentibus latam sessilem bilobam ; cristse tuberculis 2-pos- 
ticis elongatis tribusque minoribus anticis, alis columnse 
acinaciformibus obtusis integerrimis. 
i^Yrr ^T^ *J lis approaches 0. pule helium, which, however, is readily distinguished bv the 
petals being much smaller than the lateral lobes of the lip. 
