PAXTON'S 
MAGAZINE OF GARDENING AND BOTANY. 
ONCIDIUM PLABELLIFERUM. (Fan-iippod on«id.) 
Class, Gynandrta. Order, Monandria. Nut. Order, Orchidace.? 
-(Orchids, Veg. King.) 
Generic Character. — Perianth showy. Sepals often 
undulated, lateral ones sometimes connate with the lower 
part of the labellum. Petals similar. Labellum very large, 
spurless, continuous with the column, variously lobed, 
tubercled or crenulated at the base. Column free, semi- 
cylindrical, winged at the top on both sides. Anthers usually 
two-celled; rostellum sometimes shortened, sometimes 
elongated and beaked. Pollen masses two, furrowed behind ; 
caudicula plain ; gland oblong. 
Specific Character. — Plant an epiphyte. Pseudo-bulbs 
two inches or more long, having from one to three leaves at 
the extremity of each. Leaves erect, lanceolate. Flower 
scape one foot to eighteen inches long, many-fiowered. 
Sepals and Petals ovate-lanceolate, rounded, wavy at the 
edges, thickly spotted and striped with purplish-brown, 
much after the manner of the flowers of the O. tigiinum. 
Labellum large, spreading, fan-shaped, curled at the 
margins, two-lobed, of a bright yellow, thickly spotted on 
the lower margin with purple brown. 
Authorities and Synonymes Oncidium flabelliferum, 
Pinel's MSS. 
This is without doubt one of the most beautiful of that section of Oncids to which it 
belongs, not so much on account of the size of the scape and number of flowers, although 
these are considerable, but 
chiefly from the large size 
of each individual flower, 
the fine tiger striping and 
spotting of the sepals and 
petals, and the dimensions, 
brilliant yellow colour, and 
singular spottingof the lip ; 
altogether, it is a plant of 
surpassing excellence. 
In some respects the 
plant resembles a variety 
of 0. crispmn, but there are 
several particulars in which 
it by no means corresponds 
with that species ; in the 
marking of the flowers, it 
has a similitude to 0. tigri- 
num, but it differs conside- 
rably in habit, size of scape, 
and number of inflores- 
cence : it is evidently dis- 
tinct from every previously 
described species, and must 
be considered as entirely 
new to our collections. 
Our drawing was made some time ago in the Stove of Messrs. RoUisson of Too tin < 
where it continued in bloom for a considerable time, the admiration of all who saw it. 
VOL. I.— NO. III. 
