ONCIDIUM. 619 



of the country where this Oiioid grows wild is between 55° and 70'^, and that in 

 Desember, 1839, the thermometer in Guatemala at 6 a.m. in the open air for 

 three days averaged 36=, and yet the plants continued to shoot their, young 

 stems. — Mexico ; Ouatemala. 



Fig.— Batema}i, Oreh. Mi-J-. at Gnat., t. 1 ; Flore das &■)■)■«, t. 522 ; Paxton, Man. 

 5oi;.,vii. p. 241,withtab. , 



Syn. — Cyrtockilum IcucocMlum. 



O. LI£TZEI, Regel. — This small flowering species is allied to 0. amictum, 

 and produces fusiform or cylindrical elongated pseudobulbs, 3 inches high, each 

 carrying a single leaf, which is 6 inches long, thick, leathery, dull green, ovate- 

 lanceolate acute ; the scape, which rises from the base of the pseudobulbs, is about 

 18 inches high, and bears a many-flowered raceme ; flowers 1^ inch across, pale 

 brown ; dorsal sepal concave, and like the petals, spathulate ; lateral sepals 

 united, having a bidentate apex ; lip sub-hastate, bilobed at the apex. Flowers 

 in October. — Brazil. 



'FiG.—Gartmfljva, 1831, t. 101 1. 



O. LIMIVIINSHEI, E. Morreii. — This pretty little species is one of the most 

 singular in the whole genus, its habit being similar to that of a Sophroniiis. 

 The pseudobulbs are roundish, compressed, wrinkled, about f inch long; the 

 leaves are solitary sessile cordate ovate, 1 inch long, dark green speckled with 

 dull crimson, arranged closely in a distichous manner on the surface, over which 

 the stem is creeping ; the flowers are solitary, or, according to the figure, two 

 together, on a slender erect scape, the dorsal obovate sepal and two spreading 

 oblong petals dull olive green with crossbars of brown ; and the lip which has 

 roundish auricles and a long isthmus supporting the broad roundish reniform 

 front lobe, is yellow freely dotted on the front edge and on the side lobes with 

 crimson. It flowers in June and July. It succeeds admirably in an intermediate 

 temperature. — Caracas. 



FlG.—Flure da Scrres, t. 1827 ; Belff. Ilort., vi. t. 23 ; Lindenia, i. t. 20. 



O. LONGIFOLIUM — See 0. Cebolleta. 



O. LONGIPES, Lindl. — A pretty dwarf species of compact habit, growing 

 about 6 inches high, and producing its short racemes of flowers in great 

 abundance ; the pseudobulbs are small oblong, tapered upwards on a creeping 

 rhizome, diphyllous, the leaves linear-oblong apiculate, and the flowers borne 

 in short racemes about as long as the foliage ; the sepals and petals are spreading, 

 of a dark brown, the dorsal one spathulate, the lateral ones united at the base; 

 the petals are oblong, tipped with yellow, and the lip is large and of a bright 

 golden yellow, with a broad blood-red ring surrounding the crest, which is downy, 

 three-toothed at the apex. It blooms during the summer months, and will do 

 well on a block or in a small basket. It very much resembles 0. Croesus. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Bot. Map., t. 5193; Batem.. Second Cunt. Orch. PL, t. 165; VeitcKs Man. 

 Orch. PL, viii. p. 55. 



Syn. — O.janeiriense. 



O. LOXENSE, Lindl.— A. rare and beautiful species, named and described by 

 Lindley from dried flowers many years ago, and which has only recently been 

 introduced to cultivation. The pseudobulbs are pyriform, a little compressed, 

 3 inches high ; leaves ligulate, acute, thick and leathery. The long branching 



