482 Tloriciiltural and Botanical Notices, 



for having a rich deep brown spot in the middle of its yellow 

 lip." {B. M. R., Sept., No. 116.) 



247ti. COKY'CIUM 22441 orobancboides Sw., Bot. reg,, n.s. 45. 



The plant from which this drawing was taken flowered in 

 October, 1837, in the collection of John Rogers, Esq., jun., at 

 Streatham. " It is," Dr. Lindley adds, " as far as 1 know, the 

 first instance of a corycium having blossomed in Europe." {Bot. 

 Beg., Aug.) 



ONCI'DIUM [1.48. 



*ran(ferum ZaVirf/. frog-bearing ^[23 pr I au-s Y Brazil 1838 D r.w Bot. reg. ii.Sv 



" Rather a pretty species of this extensive genus, with a very 

 peculiar habit. It evidently hangs down from the branches of 

 trees, instead of growing erect, as is most usual." Its specific 

 name is derived from the form of the tubercles which grow at 

 the base of the lip, and which are supposed to bear some re- 

 semblance to the figure of a frog. " The species is a native of 

 Brazil. It occurs aniong Mr. Gardner's Organ Mountain plants 

 (No. 637.) ; and M. Descourtilz met with it in damp forests near 

 Bananal. This traveller observed that it fixes itself to branches 

 not exceeding 12 ft. in distance from the earth. Such pieces of 

 information are invaluable to the cultivator, who rarely has any 

 idea of the precise circumstances under which his plants grow na- 

 turally ; and who, consequently, can only learn after long and 

 dear experience how to treat them. For this reason, I hope 

 the following additional particulars concerning the habits of other 

 species of Oncidium, extracted from M. Descourtilz's MSS., wilt 

 prove acceptable. 



" O. divaricatnm. Trunks of the most lofty trees, on the high 

 mountains of the Serra das Agoas, in the district of llha Grande. 



" O. cilidtum. Common in the woods which cover the low 

 plains among the hills near Bananal. 



" O. \ridjfbliiim. Branches of orange and lemon trees only. 

 Very common in the neighbourhood of the town of Bom Jesus 

 de Bananal. It prefers dry places, exposed to the sun. 



" O. imhes. Thin forests clothing the table land near Bom 

 Jesus de Bananal." [Bot. Reg., Sept.) 



+ O. 2)tdvindtum Lindl. A very fine plant, resembling O. 

 ilivaricatum, with a panicle 8 or 9 feet long, imported from 

 Brazil by Richard Harrison, Esq., of Aighburgh, near Liverpool. 

 (5. M. R., Sept., No. 115.) 



H- O. Juans Lindl. Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting received 

 this plant from the vicinity of the gold mines of Brazil. " It 

 has small yellow and brown flowers, with an extraordinary ap- 

 pendage to the lip ; erect, white, fleshy, as long as the column, 

 parallel to that organ, and resembling the four fingers of the 

 liand ; a little hollowed out, and closed together." \B. M. R., 

 Sept., No. 124.) 



