erect, branched flower scape is about 30 inches tall and is crowded with large 
attractive flowers about 3 inches wide. Sepals and petals are oblong, lanceolate 
and recurved, yellowish green with heavy bars of deep brown. The lip is large, 
rounded, flat and spreading, and clear bright yellow with a long, white crest. 
Flowers in Spring. Blooms last four weeks. Treatment as for O. cornigerum. 
ONCIDIUM SUPERBIENS. Native of Colombia. 
A very striking species with ovate, compressed, flattened pseudobulbs about 4 
inches long, with leaves about a foot in length, 14 inches wide, leathery, sharp 
pointed and keeled. Scape, twining, from 2 to 5 feet long, branched, and carrying 
many flowers, each about 2} inches in diameter. The sepals are stalked, broad, 
curled and wavy, reddish-brown with a yellow margin. Petals shorter than the 
sepals, stalked, recurved, very wavy, bright yellow with bands of reddish-brown. 
Lip small, purple, pointed and recurved, crested with a large blunt, yellow tooth. 
Flowers in Winter and lasts four to five weeks. Treatment as for O. macranthum. 
ONCIDIUM TIGRINUM. Native of Mexico. 
A beautiful and fragrant’ species of fair-sized, broad, ovate, compressed psuedo- 
bulbs about 3 inches tall and bearing a pair of stout, leathery, bright green leaves 
about a foot long and two inches wide. Flower scape erect, stout and branched. 
Blooms numerous, each about 24 inches in diameter. Sepals and petals about an 
inch long, wavy, recurved and pointed, red-brown barred and blotched with dull 
yellow. Lip broad and rounded in front, narrowed at the base, with a pair of 
ear-like side lobes, brilliant yellow in colour, slightly tinged with green. Flowers 
late Autumn and Winter, lasting a month, Very sweetly fragrant. Cool treatment 
as for P. candida. 
ONCIDIUM VARICOSUM. Native of Brazil. 
A very attractive species with ovate, angular, furrowed pseudobulbs to 4 inches 
in height, with a pair of firm, strap-shaped leaves, dark green and 9 inches long. 
Flower scapes strong, arching and branched, up to about 3 feet in length and 
crowded with small flowers about an inch in width. Sepals and petals small, 
greenish blotched with brown. Lip large, reniform, spreading into two ovate, 
lateral lobes, then narrowing to the base. It is bright yellow. Crest fleshy and 
toothed. Flowers in Winter and early Spring. Treatment as for O. cornigerum. 
Var. Rogersii.—Lip 2 inches across, golden-yellow barred with red at base. 
ONCIDIUM ZEBRINUM. Native of Venezuela. 
A handsome species which is similar to O. macranthum in appearance and habit. 
The flower spike is long and twining, many-branched and many-flowered. Flowers 
2 inches or more in diameter. Sepals and petals narrowed to a stalk at the base, 
4 inch broad in the middle and acutely pointed at the apex. Edges very wavy. 
White, banded with reddish-purple towards the base. Lip small, bent sideways, 
fleshy, yellow spotted with red. Crest thick, warty and toothed. Flowers in 
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