ONCIDIUM. 



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Woburn collection, where one of them flowered ia 1841, and from 

 that time to the present frequent mention is made of it in the 

 horticultural periodicals. It was collected by Roezl in 1875 near 

 Colima, in the Mexican provinces of Michoacan,* thus indicating 

 that it is spread over a considerable area in the neighbourhood of 

 the Pacific coast. Oncidium Gavendishianum is one of a small group 

 including that last described, distinguished by the absence of 



Oncidium Gavendishianum. 



pseudo-bulbs and by their large thick leathery leaves, a group of 

 which we have already made mention in our introductory notes. 

 It was named by Mr. Bateman in compliment to the then Duke 

 of Devonshire, the most munificent patron of horticulture of his 

 time, and under whom the late Sir Joseph Paxton commenced the 

 modern system of orchid culture at Chatsworth. Its usual flowering 

 season is April and May. 



On. Cebolleta. 



Leaves from a stout rhizome, sub-cylindric, elongate, tapering to a point, 

 grooved on the face, 6 — 15 or more inches long. Peduncles longer than 

 the leaves, stiffish, erect, spotted with crimson, loosely paniculate, many 

 flowers. Flowers variable in size, the best forms 1 — 11^ inches in diameter; 

 sepals and petals undulate, dull yellow spotted with reddish brown, the 

 former clawed, obovate-oblong, the latter hnear-oblong ; lip canary-yellow, 

 three-lobed, the side lobes obovate-oblong, the intermediate lobe trans- 

 versely oblong, emarginate ; crest an elevated rounded plate, behind 

 which are two large teeth and some smaller ones on each side. Column 

 wincrs small. 



* La Belgique Horticole, 1882, p 96. 



