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DISTINCT and charming little Oncidium is shown in the annexed 
4 figure, which represents a plant that bloomed at Kew, reduced to about 
one-fourth natural size. Oncidium candidum is a native of Guatemala, 
and was originally discovered by Hartweg when collecting for the Horti- 
cultural Society. It may have been collected out of bloom, for there are no: 
wild dried specimens, and the species was originally described from a plant 
which flowered in the garden of the Horticultural Society in 1843 (Lindl. 
in Bot. Reg., xxix. Misc. p. 56), coloured drawings of the flower being 
ere 
ONCIDIUM CANDIDUM, Be 
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Fig. 7. ONcIDIUM CANDIDUM. 
Preserved in Lindley’s Herbarium, though there are no corresponding: 
dried flowers. It was afterwards made into a distinct genus by Reichen- 
bach, under the name of Palumbina éandida, and was afterwards figured 
in the Botanical Magazine (t. 5546). The source of Lindley’s original 
drawing was wrongly attributed to Messrs. Loddiges by Reichenbach (Gard. 
Chron., 1865, p. 793), who records that a plant was secured for the collection 
of Consul Schiller when the Loddiges collection was broken up, and that it 
was much esteemed in the Schillerian collection, since the flowers remind 
one of flying doves. Curiously enough, Reichenbach’s mistake has been 
