No. 1086. 
ONCIDIUM PAPILIO. 
Class, Order. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
We received this very rare plant in 1823, 
from His Excellency Sir Ralph Woodford, 
of Trinidad, and it flowered in January 
1826 ; the scape, which is slender and flat, 
being about two feet in height. It has 
flourished in our stove, planted in soil com- 
posed of moss, saw-dust, and coarse sand ; 
but we have not yet ventured to attempt 
separating it. In a communication from 
the late much-lamented Baron de Schack, 
dated July 1823, he describes this plant as 
being called in Trinidad, the Vegetable 
Butterfly, and says, “ it has been known 
about eight years, and grows on the bark 
of calabash trees, only in one spot, on the 
highest part of the northern ridge of moun- 
tains in that island, Mong to viter of 
. two bulbs annually, each surmounted by a 
