ONCIDIUM SARCODES., 
[PuaTE 477.] 
Native of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
lobed, the middle lobe large, undulated round the margin, emarginate in front, 
bright yellow, slightly spotted with reddish brown round the oblong crest and the 
small side lobes. Colwmn white, furnished. with triangular fleshy wings. 
ONCIDIUM SARCODES, Lindley, in Journal of Horticultural Society, iv., p. 266. 
Id., Folia Orchidacea, Art. Oncidium, 20. Selec chidaceous Plants, i., t. 23. 
Inndenia, v., t. 234. Flore des Serres, vi., p. 239, with fig. IL Illustration Horticole, 
3rd series, t. 165. Walliams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 6th edition, p- 500. 
OncipIuM Riesyanum, Pazton’s Magazine of Botany, xvi., Pp. 257. 
This is one of the most brilliant and handsome of the smaller-flowered Oncidiums 
we know, producing its rich and gay-coloured flowers in great quantity, and which, | 
being of good substance, remain in full perfection for a considerable time. It was. 
exhibited in great numbers recently, before the Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society by Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth and Co., and the exhibit exemplified the 
value of the species in a marked degree. This plant was first introduced upwards 
of forty years ago from Brazil, coming to this country—like so many of the earlier 
importations of the Brazilian plants—from the port of Rio de Janeiro without 
any intimation of its particular whereabouts in that great country. Some few 
years ago, however, we received a consignment from a gentleman who had _ been 
collecting plants in the province of Sao Paulo, and the cases yielded plants of 
Oncidium varicosum, O. pretextum, Cattleya Loddigesii, and some plants which 
appeared to be Oncidium sarcodes. As the small-flowered and worthless 0. 
pubes, however, so exactly resembles this latter species, we hesitated and wrote for 
information from the sender, who forwarded us some dried flowers, which at once 
removed all doubts from our minds, and enabled us to offer O. sarcodes with a 
degree of certainty which we otherwise could not have felt. Since then we have 
from time to time received additional consignments of this species from the same 
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