ONCIDIUM TIGRINUM. 



[Plate 137.] 



J^ative of Mexico, 



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Epiphytal. Pseudobiilbs ovate, compressed, blimt-edged, two or tlirec-Ieavcd, three 

 rnches^ in length. Leaves oblong-lanceolate acute, leathery in texture, fol(h>d and 

 sheathing at the base. Scape radical, two feet long, bearing a panicle of numerous 

 showy blossoms. Floivers distinct in character from the marked contrast presented 

 between the small tiger-striped sepals and petals, and the ample ])right yellow lip, 

 having a delicious odour of violets ; sepals linear-oblong aciit(>, wavy and nnolutc 

 at the margins, the lateral ones curving upwards laterally, so that they all stand 

 ^ihove the base of the lip, the colour yellowish green, heavily blotcliod with 

 transverse bands of dark chestnut-brow^n ; petals similar to the sepals in f'l-iii nnd 

 colour, curving upwards laterally like the lateral sepals ; Up three-lobed, of a pure 

 -chrome yellow, paler on the outer side; the lateral lobes oblong with rounded 

 angles, almost semicircular, entire, flat ; the middle lobe large, about nn indi in 

 (lepth,^ and one and three-quarters inch in breadth, transversely oblong-rcniform, 

 emarginate, apiculate, with a distinct basal isthmus on which is seated a furrowed 

 rwge or crest, one-eighth of an inch high, having a three-lobod tubercle in front. 

 Uhmn short, yellow, with tw^o lateral oblong hatchet-shaped wings. 



Oncidium TiGRmuM, Llave et Lexarza, Novorum Vegetahilium Drsaydmm, 

 ni'^' 36; LincUeij, Gemra and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, 203; Id. h 



OrcUdacea, Oncidium', No. 157; Reichenbach Jll, in Walters' Annaks Botamces 

 ^ystematiccB, vi., 794. 



OxciDiuM Baekeri, Lindleij, Botanical Register, 1841, 31isc. 174; Id Serfum 

 ^rc/iidaceum, t. 48; L'lUustration Ilorticole, t. 2; Paxton's Magazim of 



Oncidiim tigrinum is one of the most beautiful and distinct of the many yAVm^- 

 flowered species of Oncids. It is a free-growing and free-blooming species, ^ of 

 compact growth, with a moderate-sized branching spike, and flowers of 



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^t blooms at a time, in autumn, when Orchid flowers are most welcom^. 

 ff quality in this plant is, that it will thrive well in the cool hou«e 



the bright colour of its blossoms proving to be extremely - 



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'-^^^ong the white flowers of 0, Alexandrw. It grows about the same si/'^ ^ t.,. 



f> and has good evergreen foliage, which is a great attraction m nnr 

 ^-^ 1-Ips to show the flowers off to advantage. Our d.-awing, winch ^ Ul^ 

 ''^^ a specimen grown in the Victoria Nursery, represents one ot tuc u^ ' 

 ^^ W seen. There are smaller varieties of this species, but they are ail .orth 



