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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



having- the leaves broken up at the edge, petals coloured, broad and cuspidate, not herbaceous, 

 blunt and serrulate, in the double sepal being* blunt and spoon-shaped, not divided into two 

 taper-pointed divisions, and in its richer colours. 



But this does not apply to the Cuba specimens referred to the Variegated Oncid in the 

 Orchidacece Lindeniana, which certainly belong, at least in part, to a distinct species. It is 

 the more necessary to mention this, because it is possible that Mr. Linden may have 

 circulated plants of them under the name erroneously applied to it in the work above quoted, 

 by the writer of the present article, who looked upon them as mere varieties of the 

 Variegated Oncid. In general appearance they wholly correspond with it, and also in the 

 ragged edge of the foliage; but they differ in the flowers being downy, the wings of the 

 column blunt, the middle lobe of the lip perfectly sessile, and the lateral lobes joining it by a 

 broad base. The crest, too, consists of five tubercles, of which the uppermost are much the 

 longest. The plant is stated by Mr. Linden to vary with white or rose-coloured flowers, as 

 well as in stature — a large form growing in the pine forests of Yatara, in Cuba ; the 

 smaller on coffee trees in the Sierra Maestre, and on the Liban mountain. But it is probable 

 that this applies to both the species in question. 



"In order to enable those who may possess the second species to identify it, if indeed it 

 does occur in living collections, we subjoin the following : — 



Specific Character. 



THE VELVETY ONOLD. — Leaves acute, fleshy, equitant, serrulate. Flowers velvety, panicled. Back sepal obcordate, 

 lower united into one spoon-shaped body. Petals nearly orbicular, a little narrowed to the base. Lip with rounded 

 lateral divisions much smaller than the petals, abruptly passing into the broad two-lobed middle division, without 

 the intervention of any unguis ; crest consisting of two long posterior cylindrical lobes, and three smaller short ones 

 in front. Wings of column hatchet-shaped, blunt, entire. 



In some respects this approaches 0. jpulchellum, which, however, is readily distinguished 

 by the petals being much smaller than the lateral lobes of the lip. 



