ONCIDIUM. 371 
requires very little material about its roots. When growing, 
it enjoys abundance of moisture, with plenty of light; 
during winter it requires less water, but should never be 
dried. It blossoms at various seasons; the flowers last about 
a month. » Native of Brazil, &c.; introduced about 1830. 
Fig. 88; Botanical Magazine, t. 3499. 
Var. grandiflorum has very large flowers, the segments 
being edged with yellow. 
Fig. 89. Oncidium Crasus 
(nat. size). 
0. Cresus.—A small but pretty species, of tufted habit, 
and bearing flowers of pansy-like nature. It has narrow, 
sulcate pseudo-bulbs, rin. long, with a distinct neck, 
Supporting a pair of light green, strap-shaped leaves 4in. 
long. The flower-spike is semi-erect, shorter than the 
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