HORTUS VEITCH1I 



The flowers although small are interesting to the botanist, light yellow 

 in colour with a few brown blotches, with the distinguishing feature of two 

 pairs of keels on the disk of the lip, each keel being covered with very 

 many white hairs. 



ONCIDIUM METALLICUM, Bchb. f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1876, vol. v. p. 394. 



Introduced from New Grenada, where it was discovered by Wallis. 



The flowers are of a rich chestnut-brown colour with a distinct metallic 

 hue, the borders of the superior sepal and smaller petals being blotched 

 with rich yellow. 



ONCIDIUM PEJETEXTUM, Bchb.f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 1206 ; id. 1881, vol. xv. p. 720 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6662 ; 

 Rolfe in Orchid Eeview, 1904, vol. xii. p. 293. 



This Brazilian Oncidium was first known in 1873 from specimens 

 collected in the province of San Paulo by Mr. B. D. Jones, by whom they 

 were sent to Mr. John H. Wilson of Liverpool. 



Four years later we introduced plants from Eio de Janeiro, and 

 exhibited them in flower before the Royal Horticultural Society in August 

 1878, when a First Class Certificate was awarded. 



ONCIDIUM SUPEEBIENS, Bchb.f. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5980; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PL pfc. viii. p. 81, fig. 



A native of the forests of Venezuela and New Grenada, where it was 

 discovered at about the same time by Fiinck and Slim, in 1847, and by 

 Purdie in the province of Ocafia. It was introduced to this country in 

 1871, and first flowered at Chelsea in the spring of 1872. 



ONCIDIUM TECTUM, Bchb. /. 



Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1875, vol. iii. p. 780; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. viii. p. 82. 



Introduced from New Grenada, through Gustav Wallis in 1874, this 

 Oncidium is of little horticultural value, and seldom seen outside a 

 Botanic garden. 



The peculiar zigzag branching of the inflorescence, common to the 

 Oncidia, is very strongly pronounced in this species. 



ONCIDIUM WAESCEWICZII, Bchb. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 560, 1874, p. 48; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. viii. p. 91. 



Originally discovered by Warscewicz on Chiriqui, in Veragua, in 1852, 

 but lost sight of until re-introduced from Costa Eica in 1870. 



It is one of the most distinct of the many species of Oncidium, and 



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