NOTES. 
Fig. 3. 
L L x . Lobes of the split labellum. x. The new perianth-leaf. 
ordinary flower possesses five sepaloid perianth-leaves, and a bright 
yellow labellum, but the flower in question showed six sepaloid leaves 
and a double labellum (see Fig. 3). It will be noticed that the 
labellum is split completely down to the base, and each half exactly 
resembles, on a slightly smaller scale, the labellum of an ordinary 
ON ABNORMAL FLOWERS IN ONCIDIUM SPLEN- 
DIDUM. — The examples of abnormal flowers in Orchids are very 
numerous, and if I venture in this note to add yet another to the long 
list of recorded monstrosities, I do so because I think the case may 
serve to illustrate some points of interest. 
During the present year I observed a spike of Oncidium splendidum 
on which two of the flowers were abnormal, all the others being 
normal. The lower of the two flowers (which were on the same 
orthostichy) exhibited an increased number of perianth-leaves. The 
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