Oncidium 



yellow, lip yellow, with a mottling of brown about 

 the edge. It likes a block, or at least a basket. 

 April to July. Brazil. 1847. 5s. Figured, p. 195. 



Dasytyle (thick style). Small, buff in colour. At 

 the throat a big shining excrescence, purple black, 

 like a fly or beetle. Pretty, and, above all, curious. 

 Block or basket. January to April. Brazil. 1873. 

 3s. 6d. 



Divaricatum. Singularly free to bloom. It bears 

 long branched spikes with many flowers, yellow 

 and red brown. Summer. Brazil. 3s. Qd. 



Exeavatum. Vide aurosum. 



Flexuosum (twining). A climbing species, admired 

 by every one. Small flowers, but many of them. 

 Yellow, closely barred with brown, lip broad, golden 

 yellow. Best grown on a tree-fern stem, or a long 

 block planted in a pot, where its very straggling, 

 slender roots can find moisture. May to July. 

 Brazil. 1818. 3s. 6d. Figured, p. 196. 



Forlesi (Mr. Forbes, gardener to the Duke of 

 Bedford in 1837). Allied to cur turn. Large, rich 

 yellow, very heavily blotched with chestnut, mar- 

 gined with yellow. A great favourite. "We can 

 never meet the demand for One. Forlesi" says Mr. 

 Sander. (N.B. Thrips also are specially fond 

 of it.) Block or basket. April to July or autumn. 

 Brazil. 1837. 5s. Figured, p. 198. 



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