ONCODIA. 
Sepaza erecta, costata, herbacea: lateralibus pauld obliquis, 
ovarii mento adnatis. 
PrraLa membranacea, latiora. 
ABELLUM membranaceum, indivisum, erectum, cum cavitate 
satel in ovarii apice mentiformi continuum, basi foveatum et 
bilamellatum. 
A brevis, erecta, aptera ; margine membranaceo versus 
= latiore. Ovarium ad columne labellique junctionem in 
avitatem carnosam mentiformem (cuniculum) dilatatum. 
Potiinia 2, ovalia, solida ; — laté hneari ; glandulé 
oblonga. Anthera apiculo recurv 
Herba epiphyta, Americee becifioas, pseudobulbosa. Folia cori- 
acea. Racemi radicales. Bractew glumacee. 
In habit this resembles somewhat such plants as a glumacea ; but in 
tre’ n t 
pedoion anterior hollow tumour, like a emia rig isi —* the oe of the 
ovary, an o mceoniag 16 to the cuniculus so comm papas On the 
edge of the cavity of this tumour stand the lip jad the jais of Intra pla, 
W. 
the form of the tumour. The column is exactly that of Brassia, to which 
tiie gents ts malty velaned. 
1. 0. glumacea. 
Wild in New Grevapa—Funck and Schlim, 1499, (v. s. sp 
comm. cel. Linden.) 
Pseudobulb narrow, two agg os me-leaved. Leaf coriaceous, somewhat 
shining, linear-oblong, obtuse chaconetiad at the base and greatly narrowed 
uncle : 
near the middle, and another half way between it and the spike. The latter 
oe. distichous, imbricated, with cucullate blunt ornare ing which 
are longer than the flowers. The sepals are narrowly with a 
sharp central rib, Petals ie as broad, roundish pt Spine egieniadae Lip of 
the same cary as the petals, with a pair of deep stout diverging plates near the 
base, between which, next the cavity or chin, is a small pit clothed with hairs. 
Fes. 21, 1853. 
