ONCmiUM. 



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First cultivated by Mr. BLiller_, of Downs^ near Exeter, iu 1838, 

 who had received it from Rio de Janeiro, whence it was subsequently 

 imported by Messrs. Loddiges. It seems to have been lost to 

 cultivation for many years till it reappeared in the collection 

 of Mr. H. M. Pollett, at Fernside, Bickley, in 1886. This plant 

 differing in some trivial characters from Lindley's type, was made 

 a new species by Reichenbach with the proviso that it might be a 

 natural hybrid between Oncidium dasytyle and On. Gardneri ; but 

 on comparing Mr. Pollett's specimen with the type preserved in the 

 herbarium at Kew its identity with Lindley's On. pedorale was 

 satisfactorily established. 



On. phymatochilum. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid-oblong, compressed, 3 — 4 inches long, monophyllous. 

 Leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, 9 — 12 or more inches long. Scapes 

 slender, pale green spotted with dull crimson, 3 — 5 feet long, loosely 

 paniculate. Flowers 2 inches in diameter, crumpled; sepals and petals 



Oncidium phymatochilum. 



reflexed, linear, acuminate, pale yellow banded and spotted with brown, 

 but sometimes ivory-white spotted with orange-red, the petals broader 

 and the free lateral sepals longer than the dorsal sepal ; lip white 

 spotted with red around the crest, three-lobed, the lateral lobes auriculate, 

 oblong, obtuse, the intermediate lobe trowel-shaped, with a r(>flexo(l 



