492 oechid-geower's manual. 



0. maculatum, Lindley. — A neat and pleasing species, with 

 ovate compressed angulate pseudobulbs, bearing two broadly 

 ligulate leaves at the top, and having others springing from 

 the base, out of whose axils the scape arises. The flowers 

 are in racemes, and consist of obovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 yellowish green sepals and petals marked with purple blotches, 

 and an oblong-ovate apiculate lip, which has a stout tooth on 

 each side about the middle, and is of a pale sulphur yellow, 

 whitish at the base, where there are also four simple cuspidate 

 keels. It is a plant of free and compact growth, producing 

 its flowers during the winter and spring months. — Mexico. 



YlG.—Sertum Orcli., t. 25; Bot. Req., 1838, t. 44; Bot. Mag., t. 3836 

 (ecornutum) ; Id., t. 3880 (fl. larger) ; Knowles cj- Westc. Floral Cab , t. 57. 

 Syn. — Cyrtochilum maculatum, 



0. Marslialliainiin, Rchh. f. — This superb species is cer- 

 tainly one of the most noble and brilliant of Oncids belonging 

 to the group which has large-sized petals. The pseudobulbs 



OKCIDIUM MARSHALLIANUM. 



are terete, ovoid-cylindrical, two to four inches long, with a 

 pair of coiiaceous oblong-lanceolate acute leaves six or seven 

 inches long and two inches broad, of a bright green on the 



