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ONCIDIUM. 



the intermedicate lobe with a broad claw and transversely oblong blade ; 



crest an elevated fleshy plate that is obscurely bi-lamellate behind. Column 



wings oblong, oblique, purple. 



Oncidium Lanceanum, Liiidl. in Trans. Hort. Soc. N. s. II. p. 100, t. 7 (1836). Id. 

 in Bot. Reg. XXII. (183fj), t. 1887. Id. Fol. Orch. Oncid. No. ]33. Va,iit. Mag. 

 Bot. IV. p. 169. Knowles and Westc. Bot. Cab. t. 79. De Puydt, Lcs Orch. t. 32. 

 Van Houtte's Fl. des Serves, XVIII. t. 1842—3. Gard. Chron. XXI. (1884), p. 609, 

 with fig. Williams' Orch. Alb. III. t. 129 (Louvrexianum) Lindenia, I. t. 16 

 (superbum). The Garden, XXIX. (1886), t. 539. Sander's Rcichenhachia, II. t. 73. 



One dium Lanceanum. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



First introduced from Surinam (Dutch Guiana) in 1834 by Mr. 

 •John Henry LancOj who communicated to Dr. Lindley the following 

 account of it, which has been frequently transcribed into the 

 different periodicals where this Oncid is figured, but which is still the 

 best extant : — 



" The first specimen of this splendid epiphyte I discovered was growing 

 on the trunk of a large tamarind tree in a noble avenue of these trees 

 close to the Government House in Surinam. I afterwards found a great 

 number of plants in different parts of the colony ; they were generally 

 attached to the stems or branches of the Tamarind,* the Sapodilla,t or 



* The name of Tamarind is given in different tropical countries to various species of 

 Leguminous trees belonging chiefly to the genera Acacia, Inga, Dialium and Pithecolobium. 



t Sapota Achras, 



