ONcimuM. :^7 



clawed, the dorsal one orbicular, the lateral two ovate, acute ; petals 



much smaller, falcate, acute, the margins much undulated, yellow 



spotted with brown on the basal half; lip linear, reflexed, purplish 



brown ; crest a narrow ridge, in front of which is a cluster of sharp 



tubercles. Column with a horn-like wing on each side of the stigma. 



Oncidium falcipetalum, Liudl. in Orch. Linden. No. 76 (1846). Id. Fol. Orch. 

 Oncid. No. 7. 



One of the most distinct of the serration group of Microchila 

 Oncids ; its narrow, sickle-like petals and cluster of sharp-pointed 

 tubercles on the front part of the crest mainly distinguishing it from 

 its congeners. Like them it is a native of the Andes at a considerable 

 elevation, but towards their northern limits only and within the 

 Venezuelian territory. It was detected by Funck near Merida, and 

 afterwards by Wagener and Fendler near Tovar, in the province 

 of Caracas. We find no record of its first introduction into British 

 gardens ; it flowered in our houses in the autumn of 1886. 



On. fimbriatum. 



Pseudo-bulbs narrowly oblong, diphyllous. Leaves linear or ligulate- 



oblong, acute. Scapes 2 — 3 feet long, drooping, slender, pale green 



spotted with dull purple, loosely paniculate, many flowered ; bracts acute, 



appressed, ^ inch long, greyish white. Flowers about f inch in 



diameter ; sepals and petals spreading, bright yellow barred and streaked 



transversely with red, the dorsal sepal ovate-oblong, concave, the lateral 



two free, linear-oblong, acute ; petals clawed, oblong, obtuse ; lip sub- 



panduriform, the basal lobes auriculate, the front lobe sub-reniform with 



minutely fimbriate margin, wholly yellow ; crest bipartite. 



Oncidium fimbriatum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 199 (1832). Id. Fol. Orch. 

 Oncid. No. 54. Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XI. (1879), p. 298. Eolfe in Gard. Chron. V. 

 s. 3 (1889), p. 584. 



A Brazilian species that became known to Dr. Lindley some time 



prior to 1832 through a drawing of a single flower in the portfolio 



of the botanical artist Francis Bauer^ and which is now preserved 



in the British Museum. Nothing more appears to have been heard 



of it till June, 1878, when Mr. Kramer, of Flotbeck, near 



Hamburgh, submitted an inflorescence of an Oncidium to the late 



Professor Eeichenbach, which he identified as Lindley's Oncidium 



jimhriatum, from a tracing which he had made of Bauer's drawing. 



We have no evidence of its being in cultivation in British gardens 



before the spring of 1889, when we received a large panicle loaded 



with flower.'? accompanied by a photograph of the plant from Mr. 0. 0. 



Wrigley, of Bridge Hall, Bury, Lancashire, which proved to be 



