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pubes, especially, there are a number of interesting types that I can find no 
classification for. There are also Miltonia Regnellii (three varieties), 
candida, Clowesii, cuneata, spectabilis (three or four varieties), and several 
natural hybrids, with a number of Maxillarias and Epidendrums, mostly of 
no value, several Catasetums, Stanhopeas, two Gongoras, five different kinds 
of Sophronitis, and a number of small Orchids that are beautiful but of no 
commercial value.” 
Mr. Lupton now sends two beautiful flowers of Cattleya Harrisoniana 
alba, which are pure white except for the usual yellow disc to the lip. The 
plant was sent to him by Dr. Lane, who remarks that it is part of a plant 
that came from the Rio Parahyba, near Taubate, in the north of the State 
of Sao Paulo. 
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ONCIDIUM SARCODES. 
AN important question is raised by Dr. Lane in his interesting article on 
the Orchids of Sao Paulo (p. 298). He remarks: ‘‘ Between Oncidium 
sarcodes and O. pubes, especially, there are a*number of interesting types 
that I can find no classification for.’”’ I have long had a suspicion that the 
rare Oncidium amictum, Lindl., was a natural hybrid with some such 
origin, but the evidence was not conclusive, and as it was difficult to 
ascertain which particular species grew intermixed a paper on Hybrid 
Oncidiums (O.R., i. pp. 298-302) was left unfinished. 
The history of O. sarcodes is very imperfect. It was described by 
Lindley in 1849 (Journ. Hort. Soc., iv. p. 266) as a Brazilian species received 
in April, 1849, from Mr. P. N. Don, and it was remarked that the habit was 
entirely that of O. pubes and O. amictum. Over forty years later Messrs. 
Veitch wrote: “‘ Although one of the most admired of Oncids, and one that 
is generally cultivated, the records of the botanical and horticultural history 
of Oncidium sarcodes are of the slenderest description. . . . Itsprecise 
habitat does not appear to have been divulged. The importations are 
received from Rio de Janeiro, and the plants are said to be collected in the 
neighbourhood of Novo Friburgo, on the Organ Mountains (Veitch Man. 
Orch., viii. p. 76). 
A year after the publication of Messrs. Veitch’s note the species was 
figured in the Orchid Album (x. t. 477), anda new locality was recorded. It 
was remarked: ‘‘ Some few years ago we received a consignment from a 
gentleman who had been collecting plants in the province of Sao Paulo, and 
the cases yielded plants of Oncidium varicosum, pretextum, Cattleya 
Loddigesii, and some plants which appeared to be Oncidium sarcodes. As 
the small-flowered and worthless O. pubes, however, so exactly resembles 
this latter species, we hesitated, and wrote for information from the sender, 
who forwarded us some dry flowers, which at once removed all doubts from 
