ONCIDIUM GARDNERI. 
[Puate 12.| 
Native of the Organ Mountains of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs oblong-ovate, furrowed, about two inches in height, dark 
green, purplish beneath. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, about six inches 
long, growing two together from the apex of the pseudobulbs. Scape one and a 
half foot high, including the panicle of handsome flowers, lateral, that is, springing 
from the base of the pseudobulbs. Flowers showy, of medium size, ‘nical 
fragrant ; sepals oblong, acute, the lateral ones semi-connate ; petals twice as large as 
the sepals, roundish in outline, clawed at the base, the edges undulated, and as well 
as the bars across the sepals of a light chestnut or bronzy brown colour with a 
narrow margin of pale yellow; lip large, three-lobed, the middle lobe large, trans- 
versely emarginate, bright yellow, with a belt of confluent parallel oblong chestnut brown 
blotches just within the margin, the lateral lobes auriculeform, obsolete, yellow; the 
crests of the lip consist of two pairs of tubercles with the intermediate space 
warted. Column furnished with dwarf roundish wings. 
.. Oncrprum Garpyert, Lindley, London Journal of Botany, ii., 662; Id. Folia 
Orchidacea, art. Oncidium, 19; Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices 
Systematice, vi. 728. 
This charming Orchid is very nearly related to Oncidium curtum, O. pretextum, 
and O. amictum. It belongs to an extensive genus of Vandeous Orchids, many of 
the species of which are exceedingly beautiful on account of the brillianey of their 
flowers, which are mostly of a bright yellow colour, often prettily spotted, . and 
generally produced in graceful spikes or panicles. No collection should be without 
some of the best and most ornamental of them. The figure which we now publish 
represents a very charming Brazilian species, one of the best forms of the plant we 
have .seen. Our drawing was made from a specimen in the select and varied 
collection of W. Vanner, Esq., of Chislehurst, who was kind enough to permit our 
artist to avail himself of it. This collection occupies several houses which are 
respectively filled with species belonging to the different groups or classes, and 
among which are some very rare specimens, all well cultivated by Mr. Milford, 
the gardener, who, for many years has been a successful grower of Orchids. 
Oncidium Gardneri is a compact growing plant, furnished with dark green 
pseudobulbs, which are from two to three inches in height. The foliage is also dark 
green in colour, and about six inches in length. ‘The flowers are very freely produced 
in branching spikes or panicles, and are generally developed in June and July, 
lasting for several weeks in perfection. The sepals and petals are brown, narrowly 
