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NovVEMBER, 1906. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 337 
ONCIDIUM CANDIDUM. 
THis is a very distinct and graceful little species, which we believe is not 
common in cultivation, though the annexed figure will show that it is well 
worthy of more attention. The figure is reproduced from a photograph, 
taken by Mr. C. P. Raffil, of a plant which recently flowered at Kew, and 
is about one-fourth natural size. It was originally discovered by Hartweg; 
in Guatemala, in 1840, when collecting plants for the Horticultural Society, 
and was described by Lindley in 1843 (Bot. Reg. xxv. Misc. p. 56), the 
author remarking that he only possessed a sketch, he having lost the 
specimen, while the plant had disappeared. Twenty years later Reichenbach 
M CANDIDUM. 
Fig. 44. ONCIDIUM CAND 
described it under the name of Palumbina candida, from a plant which 
flowered in the collection of Consul Schiller, of Hamburg (Walp. A nn. Vi. p- 
699), and this plant, it appears, was obtained from Messrs. Loddiges on = 
breaking up of their collection. It was also figured under this name in t : 
Botanical Magazine (t. 5546), from a plant which flowered in the epee 
John Day, Esq., when Mr. Bateman stated that the original one oh ae 
With Messrs, Loddiges, and that the stock introduced by Hartweg _ 
Probably been lost, owing to being kept too warm, as it was easy to grow In 
4 moderate temperature. 
