bands of magenta. The three-lobed lip is narrowed to the middle and then broadens 
into a roundish, concaved front lobe. It is pure white. The crest is fleshy and is 
marked with fine teeth. Flowers in Autumn, the blooms lasting a month. Cool 
treatment as for Palumbina candida. 
Var. alba.—Is all white, except for a yellow disk at the base of the lip. 
ONCIDIUM JONESIANUM. Native of Paraguay. 
A beautiful and unusual species with tiny pseudobulbs formed in dense clusters, 
topped with fleshy, rather slender, tapering, deep green leaves, channelled on the 
upper surface. These vary in length from 3 inches to a foot, and in the longer 
types they tend to droop or even hang downwards. Flower spikes come from 
the base of the last matured bulb, and grow up to about 2 feet in length, arched 
or drooping. They bear up to a dozen flowers, 2 inches across. Sepals and petals 
are waved at the margins, oblong and pointed (sometimes rather obovate), and 
vary from creamy-white to a pale greenish-yellow, having large spots of dark 
brown which sometimes merge into blotches. The lip is large, broad and flat, with 
small yellow side lobes, the blade being pure white, with a few crimson spots at 
the base, and a crest of yellow teeth. Flowers in Autumn and Winter and lasts a 
month in perfection. Treatment as for O. cornigerum. 
ONCIDIUM KRAMERIANUM. Native of Ecuador. 
This lovely species, which is really a variety of O. papilio is a very popular one 
by reason of its brilliant and rather fantastically shaped flowers. Pseudobulbs are 
roundish, compressed, wrinkled, rough to the touch and grow in clusters so 
crowded that they overlap each other. The solitary leaves, each up to about 8 
inches long and 2 inches wide, are pointed. They are tough and leathery, a 
mottled deep green in colour, often purplish at the back. The flower scape grows 
from the base of the bulbs, and is tall, jointed and wiry. The flowers are pro- 
duced one at a time, but in a succession that keeps the plant in bloom for many 
consecutive weeks, a new flower opening as its predecessor dies. The dorsal sepals 
and petals are narrow and linear, and turn inwards, yellow at the bottom and 
dark reddish-brown at the top. The lateral sepals are deflexed, acutely pointed, 
pale yellow heavily spotted with reddish-brown. The beautifully undulated lip 
is spreading and somewhat cordate, pale yellow with brown spots at the edge. 
Requires warm treatment with plenty of light and moisture at all times. 
Syn. Oncidium papilio var. Kramerianum. 
ONCIDIUM LAMELLIGERUM. Native of Ecuador. 
A fine species with large, ovoid pseudobulbs with pointed, dark green leaves. The 
flower scapes are several feet long, twining, branching and many-flowered. The 
dorsal sepal kidney-shaped, wavy, stalked, deep brown with a border of bright 
yellow. Lower sepals long and oblong. Petals are triangular, undulated, light 
yellow spotted with brown. The lip is small and triangular, white with dark 
purplish-brown side lobes. Blooms in Spring and lasts a long time. Treatment as 
for Palumbina candida. 
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