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O. ANTHROCRENE, MM. f. — ^A very distinct and curious species, someivhat 

 resembling Miltonia Warscewiczii in its manner of growth. It produces large 



upright branched spikes of dark-coloured 

 flowers, having the sepals and petals much 

 undulated, chocolate-brown transversely 

 barred with yellow towards the base, and 

 the lip white. It flowers during the winter 

 months. A very fine spike of this was sent 

 to us recently by Mr. Bailey, gardener to 

 W. L. Barclay, Esq., The Briars, Eeigate, 

 who flowers it every year. — Peru. 

 Fm.—OrcJdd Album, ix. t. 392. 



O. AUROSUM.— See O. excataium. 



ONCIDIUM ANTHEOCEENE. 



O. BARBATUM, Lindl. — A pretty dwarf 

 compact-habited plant, with ovate com- 

 pressed pseudobulbs, bearing a solitary 

 linear-oblong leaf 2 or 3 inches long, and producing a slender erect flexuose 

 scape spotted with red, and terminated by a few yellow flowers spotted with 

 crimson, the lip being wholly yellow, equally three-lobed, and bearing a ftve- 

 horned crest at its base. It succeeds best on a block, but it must have good 

 attention as to the suppty of water at the roots. Flowers in autumn. — 

 Brazil. 



Fm.—Bot. Beg., 1843, t. 66 ; Id., t. 1660 ; Bevue Sort. Beige, 1887, p. 265 (plate). 

 Srs.— O. ciliatiim. 



O. BARKERI.— See 0. tigbjnum. 



O. BATEMANNIANUM, Kmwles et PFesicoH.— A beautiful and distinct though 

 somewhat variable species, growing about 18 inches high, and having oblong 

 compressed diphyllous pseudobnlbs, and erect 

 oblong pale green leaves ; the flowers grow in 

 erect racemes, or in large branched panicles 

 (ramosKmi), and have ovate acute sepals, broader 

 petals, and a large roundish emarginate three- 

 lobed lip which is clear yellow, the small sepals 

 and petals being of a brownish-purple, and the 

 base of the lip of the same colour. There are 

 two varieties, one (a) with racemes, the other 

 (b) with a panicled inflorescence. It is rather 

 a shy-flowering plant, but one which is worth 

 growing on account of its beautiful bright 

 yellow flowers, which are produced at different 

 times of the year. It belongs to the section 

 Verruci-tuherculata, and has a prominent crest 

 consisting of three to five short plates at the 

 base, and three others in front, diverging, 

 irregularly lobed, and having around them oncidium baebatum. 



