ONCIDIUM. 381 
0. Lanceanum.—A beautiful, fragrant, and large-flowered 
species, but with a bad reputation as a garden plant. It 
has no pseudo-bulbs, the leaves springing directly from a 
stout rhizome. Each leaf is 1ft. or more in length, about one- 
fourth as broad, thick, leathery, green, thickly spotted with 
Fig. 98. Oncidium Jonesianum, showing (1) Habit, and (2) Front and (8) Side 
Views of detached Flowers 
(Habit, much reduced; Flowers, #% nat. size). 
brown. The flower-spike is stout, erect, branched, 1ft. or 
more in height, and bears numerous flowers, which are 
from 2in. to 3in. across; sepals and petals equal, ovate, 
1in. long, fleshy, yellow, barred and blotched with chocolate- 
brown; lip iin. long, narrowed and waist-like in the 
