figured in the London Flor. and Bot. Magazines. 227 



its shoots, both great and small, having been invariably succeeded 

 by a spike of flowers." The stem is slender and erect, and 

 terminated by a spike of from twenty to thirty pale purple flow- 

 ers. Its disposition to produce them, freely, renders it a valua- 

 ble plant. It is a native of Guatemala, and was introduced in 

 1835, and flowered in January, 1836. A species which we 

 hope will soon be found in our gardens. (Bot. Reg., Aug.) 



ae'inuliini Lindl. Emulous EpidendniTn. A stove epiphyte ; growing a few inches high ; 

 with white flowers ; appearing in February ; a native of Para. Bot. Reg., 1898. 



" Closely allied to the variable E. fragrans, from which it is 

 distinguished by its pseudo bulbs being oval, and not tapered to 

 each end." Not handsome, but of a delicate character, and a 

 tender species. [Bot. Reg.., Oct.) 



ONCrUIUM 

 Lancerin«m Lindl. Mr. Lance's Oncidium. A stove epiphyte ; growing ahout a foot 

 liish ; with vellow, chocolate and violet flowers ; appearing iu June. A native of Suri- 

 nam. Bot. Reg.. 1887. 



One of the most splendid of the tribe. We cannot better 

 give a description of it than by copying the following from the 

 Horticultural Transactions., written by Dr. Lindley. " The 

 flowers are disposed in a short-branched rigid panicle, elevated 

 on a stalk not quite as long as the longest leaves; it is about six 

 or nine inches long, and densely covered with flowers, which 

 sometimes assume a corymbose, sometimes a racemose ar- 

 rangement. The flowers, when expanded, measure an inch and 

 three quarters, from the tip of their back sepal to the point of 

 their lip: they emit a delicious fragrance resembling that of the 

 garden pink. The sepals are oblong, concave, obtuse, a little 

 waved, and greenish-yellow at the edge, bright yellow in the 

 middle, and I'egularly marked with broad bloches of crimson, 

 which run together near the base. The two petals are similar 

 to the sepals. The lip is bright violet, darkest at the lower 

 half; at the base it is prolonged on each side into a triangular 

 tooth, and in the middle of the base there are three nearly equal 

 tubercles, which, towards the column, terminate a ridge that 

 gradually lowers, and then disappears at the expanded portion of 

 the lip; above the base it is narrow, and then extends again into 

 a broad, thin, light purple, somewhat truncated and toothed ex- 

 tremity. The column has an oblique, rounded, ear-like append- 

 age on each side, and is capped by a rich crimson anther." The 

 leaves are, on a well cultivated plant, eighteen inches long, and 

 the flowers on one spike number upwards of thirty. 



It was introduced by INIr. Lance, from Surinam, where he 

 found it growing on the trunks of the tamarind, sapodilla, and 

 calabash trees, generally preferring them to any others. Upon 

 his return to England he brought several plants, which he pre- 

 sented to various collections, including that of the Horticultural 

 Society. It is not difficult to manage, and is grown in the So- 



