Refugium Botanicun.] [December, 1872. 
TAB. 124. 
Tribe VANDES. 
Genus Oncrpium, Sw. 
O. ornttHocePHALUM, Lindl. Folia Oncidium, No. 101, pp. 380, 81. 
Walp. Ann. vi. 749! Rhizomate repente seu scandente, pseudo- 
bulbis seriatis approximatis ovoideo-compressis obtusangulis 
bene viridibus, nune pruinosis, monophyllis seu diphyllis, nune 
a vaginis triangulis stipatis nune a foliis cuneato-lanceolatis 
acutis articulatis, foliis bulborum cuneato-lanceolatis acutis, 
usque fere spithamacis, et unum et dimidium pollicem 
latis, inflorescentia tenera pluripedali gracili, basi anantha 
distanter vaginata, ramulis plurimis abbreviatissimis, rarius 
ramulosis, plurimis flores abortivos stellatos gerentibus, paucis 
evolutis, sepalis unguiculatis oblongis acutis, tepalis bene 
latioribus, labello late cuneato-oblongo seu transverso ovato- 
acuto, seu subquadrato retuso cum apiculo, basi tamen utrinque 
obtusangulo dilatato, seu triangulo ima basi ante columnam 
velutina, callo anteposito ex carinis quinis obtuse lobulatis, 
insula velutina parva utrinque extrorsa antepositis carinulis 
triangulis subparallelis extrorsis, columna trigona, alis angustis 
apice ligulatis, infra obtusangulis, tabula infrastigmatica 
utrinque medio extrorsum angulata, supra angulo papilloso 
pilosa, anthera pandurata apiculata, caudicula triangula, basi 
tridentata. Flores pallide flavi, sepalis fascia cinnamomea 
transversa pictis, fascia lata transversa, una per labellum, 
angustiori fascia nune superposita.—Oncidiwm ornithocephalum, 
Lindl. Regel Gartenjlora, tab.689. Oncidiwm abortivum Anglorum 
(pertinacissime ! } 
The original discoverer would appear to be the late L. Schlim, 
Director Linden’s unfortunate half-brother, who found it near 
St. Maria, in New Grenada: his plants flowered with Director 
Linden, where I saw it, as early as 1856, in full flower; and 
Dr. Lindley had obtained it, even in 1852, from the same source. 
More recently Director Linden imported it from Bogota. Then 
it appeared, I believe from Mr. Blunt, in the English collections. 
Finally, Mr. Roezl sent many specimens to Europe, and just now 
(November, 1871) a great plant is producing four inflorescences 
in the Hamburgh Botanic Gardens. When in England I am 
