XANTHOGLOSSUM. (5) ODONTOGLOSSUM. 
truncaté bituberculata utrinque in medio dente ene ve aucta, 
columnz tomentose auriculis rotundatis convexis incu 
Wild in the cooler parts of Sia ei Hates 
(v. v. ¢. et 8. sp.) 
The dried flowers measure six inches ~ a half from the tip of the petals, 
and the fresh ones are even larger. They are yellow, almost cove with 
cinnamon-brown bands and blotches. The auricles at the base of the lip 
turn their posterior edges d inwards till shes meet beneath the 
grow together. Two to five flowers grow to pe, 
which is seldom more than five or six inches long. Th , now so 
common in ens, has been found by Mr. Trevor Clarke to live in health and 
to flower in the open air in England under the shade laurel, 
mer. Mr. Skinner _— that in its native country it lives in a climate the 
extreme temperatures of which are sixty and seventy degrees, and prefers 
damp shade. 
10. 0. 
QO, pseudobulbis ovatis ancipitibus 2-3-phyllis, _— a 
latis subcoriaceis basi conduplicatis, scapo simplici v. ra 
3-00-floro, bracteis membranaceis, sepalis petalisque lncsalae 
ovatis marginibus revolutis subtis carinatis, labello basi auricu- 
=e — convexo margine revoluto obscuré denticulato limbo 
carnoso reniformi bilobove box are columnz alis 
valestiite acuminatis demum stigma claude 
Oncidium tigrinum. JLlave, Orch, Mex., p. 36. sy 9p. 1. 203. 
Wild in oe on the Irapean mountains near Valladolid, 
and Paracho—Llave. 
Kno me ip pk e quoted. Two vari- 
eties are mentioned ; a branched anny owed spike (“near 
: m”), the “thr with slender, atten attenuated scape, and very 
slender flowers (“ fl. Psendobulbs three inches and more in 
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ellowish, variegated all over with chesnut-purple tigrine spots. Lip very 
, at not spotted, 
It is singular that a plant like this, used for decoration under the ber of 
« Vien Se DE Murntos, ”? shoul ve escaped all the numerous - 
lectors ba have visited Mexico. It seems from the descri er on $6 be ieee 
lossum than an Oncidium, and to be related to 0. grand 
from lek: it certainly differs is in its very fragrant flowers, and food ess 
lip (labellum maximum luteum immaculatum). 
* 11.0. maculatum. Liave, Orch. Mer., 2.35. Bot. Reg. 
ave a ulbis obl hyllis, foliis 
O. pseudobulbis oblongis compressis monophyllis, foliis 
oblongis nervosis acutiusculis racemis pendulis multifloris brevi- 
oribus, biraetey in navicularibus herbaceis ovario brevioribus, 
lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis discoloribus, petalis oe undu- 
latis acuminatis, | labello cordato acuminato su 
eava cochleari apice libera bid t tA per: di 
arguté poe columna pubescente subaptera. 
Wild in Mextco—Barker, a c. et 8. ?-) 
