ONCIDIUM. 627 



O. PELICANUM, Martins.— A vci-}- desirable species in ivhich the pseudo- 

 bulbs are of a dark green colour, and the leaves are elongate lanceolate and 

 acute ; it produces fine branching panicles of showy flowers, which have the 

 sepals and petals yellow barred with brown, and the lip pale yellow. — Mexico. 



Fig.— Bot. Reg., 1847, t. 70. 



Syn. — 0. friieiifiiiii ; 0. rejtexum pelicanum. 



O. PENTASPILUM.-See 0. Harrisonianum. 



O. PHALAENOPSIS, Linden et JRchb. f.—A. beautiful and distinct slender- 

 habited plant, growing about 1 foot in height ; the pseudobulbs are ovate oblong 

 furrowed, about 2 inches long, and of a very dark green colour ; the leaves in 

 pairs, ligulate-oblong, deep green ; and the scape very slender, bearing a 

 raceme of five or six large flowers, IJ inch across, and 2 inches deep; the 



ONCIDITTM PHALAEKOPSIS. 

 (From the Journal of Horticulture.') 



sepals are lanceolate, mottled all over with reddish-violet, except the edge which 

 is creamy- white ; the petals are of the same form and spreading, also creamy- 

 white, but with cross-bars of a rich reddish-violet ; and the lip is creamy- white, 

 pandurate, the front dilated and bilobed, the narrowed middle part and the less 

 dilated base spotted with violet-crimson; the base also bears a crest of three 

 golden lamellae. It should be grown in the cool house. — Ecuador. 



Fia.—L'Jll. Hort., 3rd ser., t. 3 ; Orcliid Album, ii. t. 96 ; Lindenia, iii. 1. 123 ; Jonrn. 

 of Hort., 1891, xxii. p. 65, f. 12 ; The Garden, 1892, xli. p. 492, t. 859 ; Veitch',': Man. 

 Ornh. PL, viii. p. 31. 



Syn. — 0. cucuUatum Phalaenopsh. 



O. PHYMATOCHILUNl, Linil. — A pretty species, very distinct from all others 

 in its flowers as well as in its growth. The pseudobulbs are broad-fusiform, 



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