ONCIDIUM. Zue 
Var. Chestertont.—Sepals and petals narrow; lip with 
two prominent side lobes and a long waist, and of a pale 
colour, with crimson spots. 
Var. flavidum.—Sepals and petals yellow, with brown 
blotches ; lip purple, margined with white. 
Var. macrochilum.—This is larger in all its parts than 
the type, and the flowers are plum-colour, having a labellum 
of mauve, with violet spots. 
Var. nubigenum.—Lip white, with a large, purple blotch 
about the crest. 
Var. Phalxnopsis.—A pretty variety, with flowers nearly 
as large again as those of the type; the parts being pure 
white, with purple blotches. Syn. O. Phalenopsis. 
0. curtum.—An ornamental, free-flowering species, similar 
in habit to O. crispum, the pseudo-bulbs and leaves of 
these two being very much alike. The inflorescence is an 
erect, freely-branched panicle, bearing numerous flowers of 
medium size; sepals and petals similar, obovate-obtuse, 
wavy, yellow, with reddish bars and blotches; lip roundish, 
bilobed, nearly iin. across, wavy, bright yellow in the 
middle, brown round the outside; crest lobed and warted, 
yellow, with reddish spots. The flowers are developed in 
spring, and remain in beauty for several weeks. The 
plant may be grown on a teak raft or in a basket, in a thin 
layer of peat-fibre and sphagnum, and placed along with 
O. crispum. A native of Brazil, whence it was introduced 
by Veitch in 1847. 
Fig. go (for which we are indebted to the Editor of the 
‘““Garden”’); Botanical Register, 1847, t. 68. 
0. dasystyle——An elegant little Orchid, the large, black- 
purple callus on the labellum being not unlike the dis- 
tinguishing feature of our native Bee Ophrys. The pseudo- 
bulbs are oval, compressed, 14in. long, at first smooth 
