ONCIDIUM DIVARICATUM. 
(euSHION-LIPPED ONCIDIUM.) 
ORDER. 
MONANDRIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ORCHIDEiE. 
Generic Character — Lip expanded, lobed, having little knobs, or excrescences at the base. Petals 
spreading. Column winged. Pollen-masses two, and two-lobed behind. 
Specific Character. — Epiphyte. Bulbs in clusters, flat, two-edged, one-leaved. Leaves thick, yellowiab 
green, nearly oval, terminating in a small blunt point. Scape from one to upwards of two feet 
long, erect about half way up, afterwards drooping, many flowered, slender, straggling. Flowers 
yellow and red, very beautiful. Petals five, bright yellow, coloured deeply at the base with orange- 
red. Lip large, flat, three-lobed, notched, yellow, spotted with dark crimson. Column the same 
colour as the lip, vvinged. 
This beautiful plant is a native of Brazil, and was sent to the London Horti- 
cultural Society, throug-h the kindness of A. J. Heatherly, Esq., where it flowered 
for the first time in 1826. 
It thrives in the stove, either in pots of turfy peat, or wood covered with moss, 
but the first is the best way of growing- it to perfection. 
The same system should be followed in potting- as recommended for Stanhopeasy 
page 141, viz., to pile up the pieces of turfy peat six inches above the rim of the 
pot. To prevent this pile falling down, small pegs are run through each square 
piece of peat which constitute the walls ; and, when nicely finished, the appearance 
is very neat. 
The plant from which our drawing was made flowered in our stove at Chats- 
worth, in May, 1835, and continued in bloom for a long time. 
The generic name is derived from Ogkidion^ a tubercle, and is given from the 
peculiar excrescences observable at the base of the lip of all OncidicB ; the specific 
name, from the loose straggling raceme of flowers. 
The plant may be purchased at Messrs. Loddige's, Knight's, Lowe's, Young's, 
and many other nurserymen in the neighbourhood of London, at a moderate cost. 
CLASS. 
GYNANDRIA, 
