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O. CORNIQERUM, Lindl. — A highly ornamental species, and one that is very 

 distinct both in habit and appearance. The pseudobulbs are oblong suloate, 

 about 3 inches long, bearing a solitary leaf -vrhich is oval and striate, deep green, 

 and of a peculiarly thick and fleshy texture. The flowers are small but 

 numerous, and are produced in a very elegant drooping close panicle on a 

 slender scape upwards of a foot in length ; this panicle is developed after the 

 growth is mature, and on it are borne the beautifully gay flowers, which are 

 yellow, spotted with deep red ; its season of flowering is April and May. The 

 lip is panduriform (or obovate sub-repand), wavy, with a horn-shaped lobe on 

 each side at the base. — Brazil. 



¥ia.— Sot. Reg., t. 1542 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3486. 



ONCIDIUM CONCOLOK. 



O. CRISPUM, Loddiges. — A remarkably handsome large-flowered species of 

 ornamental character. The pseudobulbs are oblong, sulcate, and rugose, each 

 supporting a pair of oblong-lanceolate coriaceous obscurely-nerved leaves, and 

 a tall scape which bears either a raceme or panicle of large showy spreading 

 flowers, from 2 to 3 inches across, often from fifty to sixty in a spreading panicle. 

 The sepals are oblong-obtuse, narrowed below, wavy or crisped, of a greenish- 

 brown, spotted ; the petals are broadly obovate-obtuse, also crisped, of a rich 

 brown, the claw yellow striped with brownish-red ; and the lip is crisped, large, 

 roundish cordate, of the same colour as the petals, its base contracted, yellow 

 spotted or barred with red, and bearing two small yellow horn-shaped side lobes, 

 with a deltoid three-lobod crest, which is yellow spotted with red, between them; 

 the column is also yellow. This species blooms at different times in the year, 

 and lasts three or four weeks in beauty. It requires to be grown on a block of 



