ONCIDIUM. ( 52 ) VERRUCITUBERCULATA. 
183. 0. foveatum, 
O. habitu O. panchrysi, sed floribus dupld majoribus intensé 
luteis cinnamomeo fasciatis, labelli lobo medio maximo basi auri- 
cularum loco circulari, cristé basi foveatA anticé bicruri verruculis 
pluribus interjectis et igen columne alis dimidiatis 
acuminatis cordatis medio emargina 
Wild in Perv; sources of ee yen (v. s. sp.) 
From the three preceding, of which it has the habit, this is bem 
distinguished by its large bright ection flowers banded with bro Jai culiar 
column-wings, which might rather be called column-ears, sik the. rm and 
crest of the lip, 
* 184. 0. rupestre. ind/. in Plant. Hartw., 151. 
(B) gerne Lip apiculate. Bracts adpressed. 
0. Skinneri. Lindl. in Gard. Ohron. 1855, p. 629. 
Wild in ae on walls and rocks in and about Loxa— 
Hartweg, (v. s. sp.; B, v. e 
A very stout species, with leaves ten to fifteen inches long and two broad, 
and a stiff pyramidal panicle two ot high and a foot wide. The plant I have 
arded as 
variety, with close pressed bracts, and an apiculate lip. The other differences 
which were supposed to exist are proba ly referable to the different condition 
of the dried and recent specimens, It isa very fine plant. The branches 
re i flo 
wers, 1 
the largest form of 0. ampliatwm, are a brilliant t golden gost with about 
iree cinnamon blotches at the base of each division, and a stain of the same 
colour across the lip immediately below the crest = at 3 hae of its side 
lobes. The numerous sinuosities of the crest are w! 
- 0. Batemannianum. Knowles and Weste. Fil. Cab., 
at 383, t. 137. 
ilopterum. Fi mose. Sepals and — agi — 
ae » ; middle front este >a ‘the crest aie larger than 
0. slope Lindl. in B. Reg. 1844, — 76, ony t. on 
O. gallopavinum. aca in Ann. Gand., 
_ (B) ramosum. Fowers in a ver sarge F ae ‘Brilliant yellow, with 
the sepals and petals banded with Hake chonolase. : 
_ Wild in Braztt ; Itacolumi, near Villa Rica, in the province of 
Mines—Martius, artius, (v. 0. c. et 8. sp. in hb. Martius.) 
A tall dense erect branchin panicle —— to hich the petted 
sepals much narrower duacthe po a ving oher or 
dorsal one. Its crest consists of threo to is an am at the base, an 
three others in front, and irre lobed ; around which 
few 1 s towards the 
nin eee eee 
in one complete apecitaen i dull red, green outside, in 
‘specimen in my herbarium shows how 
