bearing many flowers. The flowers are small, the incurved sepals and petals being 
less than half an inch long. The lip is about twice as long, reniform with long, 
narrow side lobes, with two horns at the base. The whole flower is bright yellow 
banded with red-brown. It flowers in early Summer. This plant should be grown 
in a basket so that the spikes hang over the sides. The compost should be in a 
thin layer about the roots, any great depth having a tendency to rot the roots. 
Ample water in Summer with plenty of light. In Winter much less moisture is 
required, but the plant should not be allowed to become dry. Rather warmer 
treatment required than the general run of Oncidiums, a glasshouse in the warmer 
parts and artificial heat in Winter’in the colder areas. 
ONCIDIUM CRISPUM. Native of Brazil. 
A very beautiful species which presents some difficulty in cultivating. Pseudo- 
bulbs are broad, ovate, rough-skinned and prominently furrowed, and grow from 
a stout, creeping rhizome. The leathery leaves which are deep green in colour, 
are about 9 inches in length and an inch and a half in width, and grow in pairs 
from the apex of the bulb. The flower spike is long, arched, branched and stout, 
and bears up to fifty flowers, which, in some species, are as small as 14 inches 
across, while, in others, they exceed 3 inches in diameter. The sepals and petals 
are large, oblong, narrow at the base, and rounded at the apex, with crinkled 
and wavy edges. The lip is almost circular in front, stalked at the base, has two 
horn-like side lobes and a three-lobed yellow crest prominently warted. In colour 
the flower is a glossy deep brown with a few yellow and red marks at the bases 
of the segments. Flowers at various times, chiefly Spring, and lasts a month. 
Treatment as suggested for O. cornigerum. 
Var. grandiflorum—Flowers over 4 inches across, the sepals and petals being 
edged with bright yellow. 
ONCIDIUM CUCULLATUM. Native of Colombia. 
Another small growing species of considerable variety, all of whose members are 
distinctly lovely. The oval pseudobulbs are under two inches in length, smooth 
when young, but sulcate when mature, and bear a single stiff, pointed, dark green 
leaf about 6 inches in length and nearly an inch in width. It produces from the 
last-matured bulb a wiry, erect, flower-scape up to a foot in length which bears 
from six to a dozen smallish flowers rarely exceeding 14 inches in diameter. 
The oval petals and sepals are concave and a beautiful rosy-purple in colour. The 
lip is large and wide, two-lobed in front, but with firm unbroken edges. It varies 
from white to rose-pink, is spotted with dark purple, and has a small fleshy crest. 
This species requires the coolest of treatment at all times, and must have copious 
water throughout the year. It grows high up on the Andes at an elevation reach- 
ing nearly to 14,000 feet, where it gets ample light and fresh air at all times. 
Outdoor treatment in a cool, light but shady place will suit it, and it will prob- 
ably do better in the South than in Queensland, except at Maleny and similar 
elevations. Flowers in Spring, the blooms remaining in good condition for six 
weeks or more. 
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