342 ORCHIDS. 



size, white and violet, bordered with white ; lip violet, 

 shaded with carmine. 



A. Onddium cemulum. New Granada . . B. M., 5980. 



SYN. Onddium superbiens. 



Another cool house species and a plant of great 

 beauty, well meriting its name, whichever we adopt. 

 Flowers cinnamon and yellow in immense branching pan- 

 icles, many feet in length, and often bearing a hundred 

 blossoms. 



B. Onddium altissimum. Panama . B. R., 1651, 1851. 



SYNS. Epidendrum altissimum B. M., 2990. 



(Jacquin). 



Perianth yellow, edged and spotted with brown ; lip 

 yellow. The flower-stalks are several feet long, very 

 much branched and covered with flowers. 



B. Onddium ampliatum. Mexico . . . B. R., 1699. 

 Perianth yellow, slightly marked with yellowish brown ; 

 lip brilliant yellow ; back white. 



A. Onddium ampliatum majus. Guatemala. 



Fl. des Ser., 2140. 



Perianth like the last ; lip very large and pale yellow. 

 Blooms on a long branching spike from April to August, 

 and often continues in bloom for two months when the 

 spikes are strong. 



Onddium aurosum I. H., 3, 34. 



SYN. of Onddium excavatum. 



B. Onddium barbatum. Bahia . . . B. R., 1842, 74. 

 Perianth golden yellow, spotted and marked with 



