ONCIDIUM LOXENSE. 
[PiaTe 439. ] 
Native of Ecuador. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs somewhat pyriform, slightly compressed, smooth when 
young, becoming furrowed with age, some three inches in length, and e green, 
producing numerous long and thick aerial roots. Leaves ligulate, acute, thick and leathery 
in texture, deep green. Scape branching, some nine or ten feet long, bearing many 
flowers, which are very gay and showy. lowers from two to three inches across; 
sepals and petals nearly equal, ovate, cuneate at the base, ground colour of the 
sepals pale greenish yellow, broadly streaked transversly with chocolate, petals 
wholly dark chocolate, saving the extreme tips, which are yellow, they also have 
a narrow marginal border of yellow; Jip large, sub-rotund, with a somewhat hastate 
base, hollowed out in front, rich orange-yellow, spotted with some short lines of red 
on the narrow isthmus, and having two short spreading arms near the base. 
Oncrp1uM LOXENSE, Lindley, in Pazxton’s Flower Garden, ii., p. 128. 
This rare and beautiful species was named and described by Lindley many 
years ago, but he had then seen only dried flowers. It long defied the efforts 
of collectors to introduce it in a living state; a few years ago, however, this was 
achieved by the skill and perseverance of M. Klaboch, when collecting for Mr. 
Sander, of St. Albans. The plant is found in Ecuador, in the neighbourhood of 
Loja (Loxa), which lies in the templadas or temperate region, and extends from 
about 6,000 to 9,000 feet above the sea level. It is a rare beauty, rivalling even 
Oncidium macranthum in its showiness, and yet it does not belong to the same 
section (microchila). O. macranthum and the rest of that group are dependent 
for their beauty upon the display made by their enlarged sepals and petals, but the 
lip is small, and in the species we have now under consideration the sepals and petals 
are both large and showy, and the lip itself is very large and beautifully coloured, so that — 
it is quite distinct from any of that group. We have seen it flowering in several 
collections during the present season, notably with J. Ingram, Esq., Elstead House, 
Godalming—Mr. Bond, his gardener, being awarded a First Class Certificate for it 
at the Temple Show of the Royal Horticultural Society—and in Mr. Sander’s group 
at the same exhibition, but the plant from which our figure was taken flowered in 
the collection of the late G. Neville Wyatt, Esq. Lake House, Cheltenham, in the 
early summer of 1890, and it is a magnificent form of the plant. | : : 
Oncidiwm loxense is an evergreen plant. The pseudobulbs are pear-shaped, smooth 
when young, becoming wrinkled with age, and bearing mostly but a single leaf, which 
