01), (۱1! ۲, 
Orchidaceæ $ ۰ 
CHARACT. GENERIS.—Oncidium : Perigon 
explanati foliola exteriora undulata, quee 
lia libera v. e pers connata; interiora con- 
Labell maximum nostemati con- 
formia. 
tinuum ecalaratum lobatum basi Minn culat 
cristatum. Gynostema erectum SES aplce 
utrinque a alatum ‚anthera incomp ilocularis 
nia 2 Ces sulcata ; caudicula plana; glandu 
oblon 
He xs Americane tropicæ sepius pseu 
en foliis coriaceis plants complicatis RM 
Gynandria-Monandria.‏ سب 
ee? Kew. II. 5. 215. Kuxrn in HB. et B. nov. gen. vi spec. 
79-82. Bot. Reg. et Bot. Mag. locis numerosis, ete., ete. 
Exoten. Gen 
CHARACT. SPECIEI. . Pseudobulbis ovatis 
ger ven ee foliis. erectis coriaceis KC mg 
ensiformibus dulatis ~ recurvi a racemo 
mpi cp rigid o bre orbis; sepalis petalis 
eoblongis su ierg بووین‎ a er basi con- 
er labello obovato retuso basi u o disci tu- 
be rculo apice depresso. dilatato bilobo pue in 
2 
gynostematis alis cirrhatis. 
Oncidium irent Barker in litt. Lon. Bot. Reg. 
misc. 1840. 2 
ris te relibus; scapis paniculatis vaginatis ra- 
riusve We icibus ; floribus epic is ut plurimum 
luteis sepe maculatis rarius albis 
Oncidium Swartz; Act. holm. 1800, 239. R. Brows in Ait. 
Texte du Magazine of Botany de M. Paxton. 
Mr. INSLEAY'S ONCIDIUM. 
ONCIDIUM ۰ 
y = 
Erm. ©yxos, a tubercle; sidos, a form, an appearance. 
GENERIC CHARACTER } sis ME 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
The great number of species in the genus Oncidium, which have flowers GN varying slightly in 
the combination of their brown and yellow tints, seems to render each acquisition in which the 
colours of the blossoms are in any degree smile” of comparatively small value. Such, however, is 
the extreme richness of hue in the flowers of the present beautiful plant, that, connect with 
their great size and pleasing arrangement, this property redeems them entirely from falling beneath 
notice, and places the species in the very first rank of orchidaceous plants. 
It is a native of Oaxaca, in Mexico, whence it appears to have been introduced to this country 
by George Barker, en , of Birmingham; — this gentleman having succeeded in blooming it two or 
three y ck, named it after his gardener, Mr. Insleay. Mesers. Loddiges also imported it from 
s ba 
the same district, m it flowered in their nursery in the autumn of 1840, when the drawing now 
furnished was 
In the E Notices of the Botanical Register, Mr. Barker's plant is NM. as s ag ae 
a rigid, rac of flowers; but the specimen from which our drawing wa 
raceme Da a مسج‎ half-drooping character, as partly shown in the figure, and P Ld 
by the wood engraving. The flower-stalk will there seen to issue in a graceful curve, and to depend 
in a very elegant flowing manner 
As we have remarked in a former number, the species was originally thought to be identical with 
Odontoglossum grande, on account of the partial resemblance of their pseudobulbs, but even in this 
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