MICROCHILA. (AurRicuLata) (5) ONCIDIUM. 
A large inelegant scrambling plant. Flowers cinnamon-brown, Pi crisp. 
Crest of, three dagger-shaped blades, with a few callosities in additio 
- 0.8 err’ Lindley, Sert. Orch. sub t. 48. Paczt. 
Hi aon a p. 126 
Wild in i= Wadhews, (v. ic. et v. ec.) 
Flowers very crisp, lower sepals included, cinnamon-brown, with the — 
half of “the petals yellow. The crest consists bate x parallel cari 
alternately $ close togethe r. Column-w re all spaapall prot 
has flowered in M. Pescatore’s rich collectio 
7. 0.falcipetalum. Lindley, Orch. Linden. no. 76. 
Wild in VenezuEtaA—Fiinck in hb. Hooker ; forests of Merida, 
at the height of 5-6000 ft.—Linden, 626; Caraccas, at 
000 ft. —Wagener, (v. s. sp. comm. cel. Linden.) 
very fine species, with a scrambling panicle twenty feet long. igre 
more than three inc “se esin diameter, brown. ‘The angular base of the lip, and 
a cluster of sharp tubercles in front of the main ridge of the crest, clea dis- 
tinguish this ; the rss are smaller and more numerous in Fiinck’s Vene- 
zuela specimen in Sir W. Hooker’s herbarium than in Linden’s 
ossession, 
7 dis. 0. Pavonii. Rchb.f. MSS., of whose lip and column 
I am favoured with a sketch by the learned author, appears to be 
a variety of this. A fragment from Pavon exists in Boissier’s 
herbarium. 
8. O.cemulum. fchd. f. in Bonplandia, Ap. 15, 1854. 
Wild in Peru—Warczewicz ; New Greyapa, in the province 
ear ya m 
plona, at 10,000 ft.—Schlim, 1198 (fide Rehb.), (v. s. sp. comm. 
cel. Linden et Warezewicz.) 
A ao —- with di 
in diam pig ms pon a —ogecr panicle, ig i to th 
trees teative r thirty fee feet high.—Schlim. When dried it recog ike 
O. macranthum, but is quite differenti in ay Jip, which is dilated and angularly 
omy at the hecen: , linear and channelled in the middle lobe, with a downy 
x crest, ted in front and arching over sev small round warts. 
One of the tenia tir in Schlim’s specimen is almost two feet long. 
9. O.superbiens. Achd. f. in — AXIT, 843! 
Wild in New Grenapa—Purdie in hb. Hooker; in the pro- 
vince of Ocafia, at 8-9000ft. o Behlint (fide Rehb.); V. oe 
—Fiinck and Schlim, 1433, (v. s. sp. comm. cel. Li 
Echb.) 
Much like 0. halteratum, to which I refer Schlim’s 387 as it stands in my 
own herbarium, although Mr. Reichenbach’s eo a having the same 
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