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are five of these clusters, the shortest with a length of 4 feet 3 
inches, while the longest measures 12 feet 6 inches; the total 
length of'the five panicles is 35 feet 8 inches. This same plant 
bore but a single cluster last year which was between four and 
five feet long. 
Inthe botanical Register for 1833, at plate 1651, is given a 
colored illustration of this species, under the name of O. altissi- 
mum, a quite different plant, as 
Lindley, the author of the present 
species, eventually admits. Lind- 
ley, in the descriptive matter ac- 
cop ane the above plate, says: 
“We have actually had a specimen 
from Mr. Harrison, of Liverpool, 
the flower stem of which exceeds 
10 feet in length.”’ We have not 
been able to find a record of a 
larger panicle than this. The 
author of the article on Oncedium 
in Bailey’s Cyclopaedia of Amer- 
ican Horticulture gives the length 
of flower stem as 8-9 feet. ” Our 
specimen considerably exceeds all 
of these. 
This species is closely related 
to the Oncidium aS: Sw., 
particulars, which will be dis- 
cussed later, and appears worthy 
a of specific rank, although its 
Fic. 23. Oncidium Bauer? Lind early struggles to acquire title 
, to this position were somewhat 
confusing. In 1830, in Lindley’s Genera and Species of Orchida- 
ceous Plants, page 200, the name of O. Bauer: was first pub- 
lished as a synonym under the variety 2 of O. altissimum, a 
reference also occurring at the same place to the Illustrations of 
Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, plate 7, to which 
