EQUITANTIA. (Sc. ELoNGATUS) ( 13 ) ONCIDIUM. 
Wild in 325 West Indies; A, Jamatca—Swartz; Mexico 
—Pavon; N. Grenapa—Lobb; B, Jamaica ?-—Purdie ? 
‘Goma Fine, 293, in hb. Hooker, (v. v. ¢. et 8. sp.) 
very common and rather variable Pia Racer) vig always having a 
lip « mcg om except around the cre o difference between 
A cept that the latter is ou a ionaae ‘lla, and has very a 
green sepals an int petals banded with crimson. A narrow-leaved var. found 
by Lobb in N. Grenada occurs in Sir W. Hooker’s herbarium, It Sssadent 
that the plant varies much in size. 
37. 0. velutinum. Lindley, in Parton's Fl. Gard. under t. 33. 
Wild in SS ee 1759; Sr. BartrHotomMEw’s—Forn- 
strém in hb. . Sp. ) 
In general appearance, this and 0. correspond, as also in the 
ragged edge of the foliage ; but they differ in E the flowers of thie being poo 
e wings of the colum n bla nt, the cong lobe of the lip perfectly sessile, and 
i five 
the lateral lobes joining i t by a broa he crest, too, consists o 
tubercles, of which the uppermost ch the longest. The plant is stated 
yd Mr. Linden to vary with white or rieee-elonbed bes as well as in 
tature—a large form growing in the Pine forests of Yatara, in Cuba, the 
aiiddier on Coffee-trees in the Sierra Maestre, ead on the Liban mountain. 
* 38. 0. variegatum. Swartz. LO., p. 198. Pazton’s FI. 
Gard. t. 33. 
Wild in the West Inpvres; St. Domingo, Mackenzie, chiefly in 
the Cibao district, where it is called “ —— *>__Schom- 
burgk; C uba—Sir C. Lemon, (v. v. c. et 8 
When in health the leaves are fleshy, three or Ke inches ents rane 
sharp-pointed, and much broken at the ed ‘oot and 
The 
a half high, erect, with flat, pink flowers, richly stained wi 
on the pe the base and lip The lower sepals 
— spoon. the petals are large; obovate, _almost retuse, with 
termediate point ; the oo . has the middle lobe y placed upon a 
awa serrated isthm > ds nian Miele a tw sets of tubercles, one 
lying on = other, the u t+ made up of two —_ lateral ones, and a 
upper se 
minute one in the ‘middle, the sant set, of three equal blunt ones, the inter- 
mediate of which is curved upwards. 
§ 3. TERETIFOLIA. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES, 
Als et crista obsolete... - + +s + 8 + = 39. nudum, 
conspicuse, > oy 
“jubeteadant criste solitarium . . sa ee SO, siepitatem. 
2_nlura. 
alee rotundate, “petala obtusa mane co aE Sree. 
alze lunatee . s s « « + 42, Cehollea. 
shes Hasieaiis teoueves 5 Griateo Gab. 7 ~ « + « » 43. ascendens. 
* 39. 0, nudum. Bateman, in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1994, 
Wild in the Caraccas—Bateman; Venezuela—Fiinck and 
Schlim, 481, (v. ». ¢. e¢ s. sp.) 
