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unguiculate, margin much crisped, obtuse, of a rich brown on the 
upper surface, marked with dark lines, red towards the claw, which is 
yellow. Lasenium, or Lie, greatly contracted towards the base, the 
lateral lobes horn-shaped, recurved, small, the central lobe large, 
roundedly cordate or emarginate, waved or crisped. Crest deltoid- 
shaped, beset with a double row of teeth, yellowish at the base, red 
towards the summit. Wines or THE CoLumN rounded, toothed, 
fleshy. ANTHER-CASE ovate, acuminate, but truncated at the top. 
Po.xeN-massés oval, yellow, on a long, broad, white stalk, furnished 
with an ovate, brown gland at its base. 
Popviar anp Grograpuicat Notice. This interesting species 
of Oncidium was found growing among the Organ Mountains of Bra- 
zil, on the dead trunks of trees. While in northern climes the barks 
of trees are clothed with common mosses and lichens, the stems of 
trees in tropical forests exhibit, in astonishing profusion, the richest 
and most superb vegetation: the most singular and elegant orchi- 
deous plants spring from the clefts and chinks of the bark; and 
around the stem itself the Pothoses twine, and push forth their white 
and shining flowers from between their beautiful and bright green 
leaves. Gazing on such scenes we might be tempted to consider them 
paradisaical, were it not for the knowledge, sometimes purchased at a 
fatal price, that “latet anguis in herba,’—amidst the grass on which 
we tread, the serpent with its poison-fangs, lurks for its prey. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuttTure. The lovers of orchi- 
deous plants are indebted for the introduction of this elegant plant to 
the zeal and enterprise of the Messrs. Loddiges of Hackney. The 
specimen from which our drawing was taken flowered in October, 
1836, in the handsome collection of William Taylor Copeland, Esq. 
M. P. at Leyton, Essex. It grows well in a pot filled with drainers 
and sandy peat, on a stand in the stove. It should have a hot moist 
atmosphere whilst in vigorous growth. 
DeERivaTION OF THE NAaMEs. 
, Oncipi10m, bears a reference to two prominences on the 
- of Ne bak dactihed species, the Oncidium altissimum of Swartz. Crispv M, 
des to the crisped margin of the petals of this species. 
SynonrMmes, 
CRISP mM. tag bea sis oomgeg Cabinet, 1854, y : 
Oxcip1um U Lindle *s Genera 
