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ONCIDIUM. 



in front, however, indicates its true place. It was first exhibited 

 by Mr. C. B. Warner at a meeting of the Horticultural Society 

 of London in May, 1845, and had probably been imported by Messrs. 

 Loddiges from Mexico. We received materials for description from 

 the collection of Sir '^Prevor Lawrence, Bart., at Burford Lodge, 

 and from Mr. F. W. Moore, of Glasnevin. 



On. Wentworthianum. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovate-oblong, 3 — 4 inches long, compressed, furrowed, 

 often barred and spotted with brown, dipbyllous. Leaves ligulate, 

 acute, 9 — 12 or more inches long. Scapes flexuose, several feet long, 

 branched, the branches distant, slender, the longer ones again branched 

 and many flowered. Flowers an inch or more in diameter ; sepals 

 and petals yellow blotched with red-brown except on the apical area, 

 linear-spathulate, undulate at the margin, the two lateral sepals free 

 and divergent; lip with two rounded pale yellow basal lobes, and a 

 transversely oblong two-lobed blade, denticulate at the margin, yellow 

 with some red-brown spots around the crest; crest triangular, toothed 

 at each angle, with a smaller tooth on each side and two more in 

 front of the apical angle. Column wings narrow. 



Oncidium Wentvfortliianum, Batem. in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. No. 194. Id. 07xh. 



Mcx. et Guat. t. 39. Lindl. Fol. Orch. Oncid. No. 195. Id. Paxt. Fl. Gard. II. 



icon. 127. 



One of the numerous discoveries of Mr. G. 

 Uro Skinner in Guatemala. He detected it 

 on the mountains of Santa Rosa in 1839 and 

 sent it to Mr. Bateman, in whose collection at 

 Knypersley it flowered in the following year; it 

 was subsequently sent to the Horticultural Society 

 of London from the same country by Hartweg. 

 It was named in compliment to Earl Fitzwilliam, 

 whose collection of orchids at Wentworth, near 

 Rotherham, was at that time one of the finest 

 in England. 



Oncidium Wentworthianum. 



On. Widgrenii. 



Pseudo-bulbs oblong, thickened at the middle, 2 inches long, monophyllous. 

 Leaves narrowly oblong, acute, 4 — 5 inches long. Scapes slender, sub-erect 

 or nodding, about a foot high, racemed or panicled, 12 — 15 or more flowered. 

 Flowers about an inch in diameter, brightly coloured ; sepals yellow with 

 narrow transverse red-brown bars, the dorsal one oblong-cuneate, obtuse, 

 the lateral two linear-oblong, connate at the base ; petals like the dorsal sepal, 

 bi;t wholly red-brown and undulate at the margin ; lip with a long claw. 



