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origin, who discovered it in 1878 in northern Paraguay, about 

 60 miles south of the river Apa which separates that country from 

 the Brazilian province of Parana, and afterwards imported from 

 the same region by Messrs. Sander and Co. It was dedicated by 

 the late Professor Reichenbach to the Rev. Morgan Jones, " an 

 enthusiastic lover of orchids." Among the sub -varieties, of which 

 there are many, phceanthim is a very distinct one which occurred 

 among the plants acquired by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. No 

 Oncidium has been received in our time with greater applause 

 than Oncidium Jonesianum, and with none has the attempted 

 culture more signally failed. 



On. Kramerianum. 



Pseudo-bulbs orbicular, compressed, 1 — l^ inches in diameter, rugose, 

 monophyllous. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 6 — 9 or more inches long, 2 — 2 J 

 inches broad, deep green mottled with blackish green above, spotted 

 with dull purple beneath. Scapes slender, terete, 20 — 30 or more inches 

 long, jointed at intervals of 1| — 2 inches, the nodes swollen, the inter- 

 nodes sheathed to one-third of their length by pale brown, acute 

 bracts. Flowers several, produced singly by successive elongations of the 

 peduncle from the joint immediately below the ovary (as in Oncidium 

 Papilio). Dorsal sepal and petals similar, erect,* linear-spatludate, 2 — 2| 

 inches long, undulate towards the apex, reddish brown ; lateral sepals 

 oval-oblong with serrulate, undulate margin, deflexetl, orange-red mottled 

 with golden yellow ; lip sub-pandurate, the lateral lobes rotund, yellow 

 spotted with red-brown, the front lobe transversely oblong with a sinus 

 in the anterior margin, bright canary-yellow bordered with red ; crest 

 prominent with two basal and three front lobes, deep bronzy jDurple. 

 Column with two horizontal plate-like wings beneath the stigma, and 

 two cirri above terminating in a blackish gland. 



Oncidium Kramerianum, Rchb. Xcn. Orch. I. p. 80, t. 33 (1855). Fl. Mag. 1870, 

 t. 465. Van Houtte's H. dcs Serves XIX. t. 1956. Belg. hort. 1874, p. 258! 

 Lindeiiia VI. t. 246. De Puytlt, Les Orch. t. 31. On. Papilio Kramerianum, 

 Lindl. Fol. Orch. Oncid. No. 197 (1855). Jennings' Orch. t. 11. On. nodosum,' 

 Kegel's Gartenfi. 1880, t. 1018 (papiliouiforme). 



This remarkable Oncidium was originally discovered by Warscewicz 



on the slopes of Chimborazo in Ecuador, at 3,000 feet elevation 



about the year 1852, and was shortly afterwards introduced by him 



to the garden of Herr Jenisch at Flotbeck Park near Hamburg, where 



it flowered in 1854, and after whose gardener, Kramer, it is named. 



It continued to be very rare in European gardens until its discovery 



* When the flowers first expand, but after a few days the petals are often deflexed at a 

 considerable angle from the dorsal sepal. 



