ON'CIDIUM. 



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and oblong-lanccolato leaves, flat and equalling the scape, which bears tho 

 charming flowers in nodding racemes, rarely in panicles. The upper sepal and 

 petals are oval, and together with tho connate lateral sepals are rose colour,, and 

 the lip cordato-panduriform, dilated and bilobed at the apex, reddish-purple 

 spotted with deep purple. Those flowers are produced in the spring months, and 

 last a long time in perfection. There are many varieties differing very much jn. 

 colour ; the figure in Flore des Scrres shows a form with a very broad rosy lilac 

 lip spotted with dark crimson. This species will do well in the cool house witli 

 Odontogloasiims. Flowers in spring. — Neiv Grenada, at 8,700 feet elevation. 



Fia.—Paxton, Fl. Ganl , lii. t. 87 ; Lcm. J.ird. FL, t. 317 ; Floro des Sci-n's,t. 835 ; 

 Lindcnia, ii. t. 81 ; Vcitrh'x Miin. Ordi. PL, viii. p. 30. 



Syn. — Lboeliilus saiigiiiitolcntii". 



O. CUCULLATUM FLAVIDUM, 



Hort. — This is a distinct and very 

 desirable form, similar in habit to 

 the type. The flowers have tho 

 sepals and petals yellow blotched 

 with brown, and the lip purple 

 margined with white. Tt must be 

 placed in the coolest house ; the 

 flowers are produced in spring, and 

 continue a long time in beauty. — 

 yctp Grenada. 



O. CUCULLATUM MACRO- 

 CHILUM, Lindl. — An entirely 

 different-looking plant from the 

 previous one, but equally beauti- 

 ful, being, according to Lindley, 

 "the finest Alpine Orchid, yet 

 discovered." It grows about a 

 foot high, and has larger pseudo- 

 bulbs; the scapes also arc stronger, 

 the flexuose racemes being 2 feet 

 in length, and well furnished with 

 its beautiful flowers, which have 

 the sepals aud petals of a rich 

 plum colour and crimson, and the 

 lip, which is 1| inch broad, mauve 

 spotted with dark violet. It must 

 be grown in the coolest house. — 

 Quitinian Andes, at 13,000 feet 

 elevation. 



O. CUCULLATUM PHALAE- 

 NOPSIS — See 0. Phalaenoi>sis. 



ONCIDiaM OURTUM. 



(From the Garden.') 



O. CURTUM, Lindl. — A very handsome and distinct species, of compact 

 growth, somewhat resembling 0. crispiim in foliage and. in the shape of tho 



