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OXCIDIUM. 



On. zebrinum. 



Eliizome almost as thick as the little finger, sheathed by the persistent 

 whitish bases of the fallen scales that are lanceolate and at first brownish. 

 Pseudo-bulbs produced from the rhizome at intervals of 4 — 6 inches, ovoid- 

 oblong, compressed, 4 — 5 inches long and 2 inches broad at the widest, 

 diphyllous. Leaves ligulate, acute, 10 — 15 inches long. Panicles flexuose, 

 7 — 10 or more feet long, the branches short and few flowered. Flowers 

 1^ inches in diameter; sepals and petals similar and suli-equal, narrowly 

 oblong, much undulated, reflexed at the apex, white with 5 — 7 zebra-like, 



Oncidium zebrinum. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



transverse, red-brown stripes ; lip smaller than the other segments, sub- 

 quadrate at the base, oblong-triangular, reflexed, white spotted with red- 

 brown; crest oblong, tuberculated, bright yellow sometimes marked Avith 

 red. Column wings reduced to two small teeth. 



Oncidium zebrinum, Rchb. iu Bonpl. II. p. 12 (1854). Id. Gard. Chron. 1872, 

 p. 1355, with fig. Lindl. Fob Orch. Oncid. No. 16. JBot. Maf/. t. 6138. Odonto- 

 glossum zebrinum, Rchb. in Linurea, XXII. p. 849 (1849). Lind, Fob Orch. Odont. 

 No. 40. 



