Plate 165 



ONCIDIUM LONGIPES. 



Long-stalked Oncidium. 



Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Plate 154.) 



Oncidium (Tetrapetala, Macropetala) longipes; pscudobulbis ovalibua dipliyDlfl, fuliis uuLmsik 

 tenmbus^ scapo bi-(pluri-)floro foliis £equali^ pedunculis dlougatis, sopalis latemb'bus elouf^'-nff^ 

 pendulis basi connatis dorsali breyiore latioro refracto^ pctalis oblon^fs planis^ labdli h.Iiis 

 lateralibus parvis obtusis interinedio transverse apiculato sinu convcxo serrato, cristA pulx s- 



minimis sinuatis. LindL 



apice 



Oncidium longipes. Li7idley in Paxton's Fl. Garden, v. I, n. 76. Folia Orchid. Onnd\ p. 15, u, 15. 



Oncidium Janeirense. '' Beichenh.JlL in Banjul Ap, 1, 1864. 



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A Brazilian plant, introduced by Messrs. Loddiges from Rio Janeiro. It is 

 «nght and pretty, though diminutive species, easily cultivated on a piece of hard uoo. 

 or (better still) a branch-orchid pot, and flowering in the early summer months. It 

 blossoms are very durable. 



Descr. From a creeping caudcx, about as thick as a writing-pen, pseudobulbs aris»' 

 jn clusters, oblong, tapering upwards, sheathed with brownish scales, bcnrin- two. 

 linear, apiculated, somewhat fleshy leaves, linear-oblong, tapering much at the hn^p. 

 apiculate at the point, bright green. Peduncle or scai}e slender, arising from between 

 tlie leaves, bearing a raceme, three to four inches long, of several loiiir-pedirellatp 

 Jlowers. Sc^ah and petals all spreading, dark, almost blood-red-brown witiiin, brown- 

 isii-green on the outside; superior or dorsal sej}al spathulate, the niai<,Mii8 waved and 

 rcflexed, lateral sepals narrower, united at their base, deflexed. Jjihellnm laige in 

 P»^portion to the size of the flower, briirht, almost jrohh-n-yollow, with fl biuad bh.o.i- 



^i*i, c.,x^n^^«u (3 



"loured ring at the base sunoundiiig the crest, three-lobed,]a(('ial lobe 

 terminal one large and two-Iobed : the raar-in fimbriated between the 



