and have the sepals and petals 



hite 



fringed with deep 



orange colour 



and the lip 

 •gined with white 



hit 



!, beautifully veined and 

 The plant generally blooms 



IQ 



J 



and Juh' 



and 



continues flowering on for several 



eeks 



it 



akes a fi 



decorative' subj 



as 



well 



as 



a fine plant for the exhibition " table. We have more 



than once seen some noble specimens shown at the Whitsuntide National Show of the 

 Royal Botanic and Horticultural Society of Manchester. 



nsoniw in our second volume at Plate 67, 



We figured the 



charming Thwiia B 



where will be found a full 



of the treatment given to that beautiful 



T. Marshall 



same manner. 



requires a similar mode of cultivation, and is propagated 



species. 

 in the 



Oncidium Lanceantjm, a very handsoi 



ety of which is figured on the 



preceding Plate, was first discovered in Surinam by John H. Lance, Esq., by whom 



it 



ght to England in the year 1834. In a letter quoted by Dr. Lindley 



of the Horticultural Society 



Londo 



states that he fi 



found it 



grow 



on the trunk of a 



•g 



10, t. 5.), Mr. Lance 

 Tamarind tree, near 



the G 



H 



I that he subsequently 



with 



number of the 



HI 



difF. 



parts of the colony, generally attached to the stems or 



brand 



Tamarind, 

 and light 



Sapodilla or Calabash trees. With him 

 earth, but grew well when fastened to 



it fiiiled to grow in rotten 



w 



the branches of the Oran 



o 



of 



ood 

 the 



Soursop, the Mammee, and even the Brugmansia arhorea, producii 

 with upwards of twenty blossoms on each. 



The scent of the 

 and is retained after 



g 



stems 



blossoms Mr. Lance goes on to 



state 



is 



tlie flower is dried, only becoming fainter 



remely fragrant, 

 Lind more of a 



picy flavour than when fresh. The plant remains in full beauty from ten or twelve 



( 



iiys 



a lonjj 



period 



m 



th 



climate ; and I found that it always required a 



shad}' 



situation, and a 



its fl 



owers in 



the 



fr 



living stem 

 highest perfection 



to grow upon, without 



ich it would not produce 



Dr 



Lindley, in one 



plac 



compares their 



'G 



to that of the Garden Pink, and in another to that of A' 





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