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ONCIDIUM HAMATOCHILUM.’ 
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Native of New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs none or obsolete, the leaves and flower-scapes springing 
directly from the*axils of the scaly bracts which surround the crown. Leaves soli ry, 
flat, oblong, acute, leathery in texture, dull green spotted with reddish brown, nine to 
twelve inches long. Scape radical, deep red, supporting a dense panicle of green spotted 
ermson-lipped flowers. Flowers about an inch and a half across, showy on account 
of their rich colouring and markings; sepals oval-oblong, vellomeh green, thickly 
marked with irregular transverse. bands of rich reddish brown ; ‘petals oblo g, spathulate, 
Wavy, similar in colour to the sepals, but less heavily marked ; hp clawed, with a 
pair of auricles at the base, the claw and auricles deep magenta-rose colour, the front 
expanded portion roundish or transversely reniform, of a deep sanguineous crimson, 
and having the margin yellow, closely mottled with deep rose-crimson, the disk 
furnished with a flexuose crest shaped like the letter W, and thence raised into’ an 
eminence with a toothlet on each side. Column short, with rounded wings curved 
downwards and somewhat lobed. in 
_  ONcIDIUM Ha&MATOCHILUM, Lindley, in Pazton’s Flower Garden, L, t. 6; da, re- 
issue, t. 26; Id., Folia Orchidacea, art. Oncidium, No. 132; Reichenbach fil., in 
Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematice, vi., 783. | 
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ONCIDIUM LURIDUM puRPuURATUM, Loddiges, Inst — fide Lindley. 
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This is undoubtedly one of our oldest Orchids—one that we recollect to have seen 
in bloom with the Messrs, Loddiges, in their noble collection of Orchids, about, thirty 
Yearsvago. We have always been under the impression that it was one of the prettiest 
of the spotted Oncidiums, but, although we have occasionally bloomed it, since’ then we : 
have seen it in very few collections. We were accordingly very greatly pleased to meet’ 
ee remarkably fine example, of it in the collection of G. W. L. Schofield, Esq., of 
Rawtenstall, near Manchester, from which our illustration was taken. The plant bore 
win flower-spikes; one of which was three feet Six inches in length, bearing forty fine 
blossoms, and was a most beautiful example of the species; the other was shorter, 
and from this our drawing was made, as our page would not afford space for the 
representation of the larger spike. Our readers will, however, be enabled fr om the 
(eseription and figure to form a good idea of the beauty of this rare species dem 
well grown, Mr. Schofield is a great lover of good Orchids, and apparently — 
having & fine collection of them, as he has had houses built for the Guserent ak 
his gardener also takes great interest in the plants, and consequently they are closely 
looked after and well cared for. 
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