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On. cryptocopis.* 



"Pseudo-bulbs lanceolate, much compressed, 4 — 5 inches long and an 

 inch broad. Leaves a foot long, lanceolate, acute. Panicle 3 — 5 feet 

 long, much branched, slender, with sheathing, lanceolate, scarious bracts ; 

 pedicels flexuous, 3 — 5 inches long, also bracteate. Flowers 3 inches 

 across the tips of the sepals, pale chestnut with golden crisped margins 

 of the sepals and petals and a broad yelloAv middle lobe of the lip ; 

 upper sepal deltoid-ovate with a short broad claw ; lateral sepals parallel, 

 much longer than the upper, with long claws and an obovate cuneate 

 limb ; petals ovate-lanceolate with broad claws ; lip about half as long 

 as the petals, reflexed ; lateral wings small, hatchet-shaped, recurved ; 

 middle lobe consisting of a long flat claw and a transversely oblong 

 blade turned completely back ; crest tuberculose. Column with two 

 small spreading wings and two subulate decurved horns in front." — 

 Botanical Magazine. 



Oncidium cryptocopis, Rchb. in Gard. Cliron. 1870, p. 827. Bot. 3Iag. t. 5858. 

 One of the Microchila group of Oncids imported by Mr. William 

 Bull, of Chelsea, from the Andes of Peru in 1869 along with Oncidium 

 serratum, with which it is comparable as regards the size and colour 

 of its flowers, and apparently distinct from that species in the form 

 of its petals and the structure of the labellum which is peculiar. 

 It flowered in May, 1870, in Mr. Builds nursery, but we find no 

 record of its being in cultivation since. The specific name, from 

 KpvTTTog (kruptos), "hidden/^ and -hcoTrlg (kopis), "a dagger," refers 

 to the dagger-like wings below the stigma. 



On. cucullatum. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, sometimes oval-oblong, 1^ — 3 inches long, com- 

 pressed, mono-diphyllous. Leaves linear-ligulate, acute, 6 — 8 inches long, 

 complicate at base. Scapes slender, erect or noddmg, purplish green, 

 15 — 24 inches high, loosely panicled, sometimes racemed along the 

 distal half, 8 — 12 flowered. Flowers about 1^ inches across vertically, 

 variable in colour ; sepals and petals similar, oval-oblong, acute, the 

 lateral sepals concealed by the lip, connate, bifid at the tip, deep 

 chestnut-brown, sometimes greenish or olive-green and not imusually 

 with a narrow yellow margin ; lip light rose purple spotted in various 

 ways with purple-crimson, three-lobed, the side lobes small, roundish, 

 the front lobe large and spreading, transversely oblong, emarginate ; 

 crest with two pairs of tubercles and a fifth smaller one between the 

 posterior pair, bright orange-yellow. Column thickish hooded. 



* Not seen by us. 



