_ transverse bands of chocolate-brown on the basal half; lip 
ONCIDIUM SUPERBIENS. 
[Puate 276.] 
Native of Venezuela and New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs ovate-lanceolate 
: , somewhat compressed or flattened, 
oe to four inches high, becoming slightly furrowed Jia age, and aie 
green in colour. Leaves a foot or more long and about an inch and a_ half 
gr ‘ 
> pooper ped ‘aes furnished with a claw, heart-shaped at the base, recurved at 
“ere e Sey Ase and crisp round the edge, chocolate-brown with a yellow 
as, et ma nf ; lateral sepals same colour, bluntly ovate, and plain at the edges ; 
Sat ghtly smaller than the sepals, furnished with a sho 
, recurved at the apex, crisp and waved on the edges, ground colour rich 
irregularly streaked with 
yellow, plain on the apical portion but profusely and ur 
small, trulliform, eared, 
d a large pointed swollen appendage 
mmg a yellow fleshy crest at the base, an 
all curved tooth-like 
on each of the ears. Col h . 
point on either side of ie tena a ge er 8 
RS acl SUPERBIENS, Lindley, Folia Orchidacea Art Oncidiwm, mo. 9; 
Orchid il “ in Linnea, xxii., p. 843; Botameal Magazine, t. 5980; Williams, 
id-Grower's Manual, 6 ed., p. 508. Paes 
‘5 still extremely rare; it was 
hlim near Pamplona, and about 
at an altitude of from eight 
.. meas superbiens, although a very old plant, 
a ates : seme forty years ago, by Funck and Sc 
nis ae by Purdie in the province of Ocana, 
a ee feet. It has also been found by several collectors during the past 
- ful “4 a % still very sparingly, so that we eonclude %& 18 by no.means plenti- 
distinct ‘he wilds. It is a handsome species, and brings forth long spikes of its 
co ee ee si mid-winter, We first saw. this 
Namur, B ee “some ten years ago, in the select collection of Mons. F. Kegeljan, 
Since elgium, and we have never forgotten the specimen we saw at that place. 
ck. a selection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, MP. 
o odge, Dorking, where our drawing was taken some two or three years 
we are glad to be able to bring it before our readers, as it is by no 
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means a well-known species. 
