Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... (Plate 30) ONCIDIUM UROPHYLLUM Tail-leaf Oncidium Native of Antigua and Brazil Family Orchidaceab Orchid Family Oncidium urophyllum Lodd.; Lindl. Sert. Orch. under pi. 48. 1841. An epiphytic plant with long stiff leaves, which are equitant and crowded at the base of the stem, and a racemose inflorescence. The leaves are rather fleshy, almost conduplicate, very acute, and with a sharp keel on the back; they measure up to six inches long and nearly a half inch wide. The peduncle is slender, up to eight inches long, with several scarious distant bracts, and is terminated by a loose raceme of six to eight yellow flowers, sparingly marked with chestnut. The acute sepals are about one fifth of an inch long and a third as broad, and are marked toward the base with chestnut; the dorsal sepal is linear-spathulate; the lateral sepals are united almost to the apex into a two-toothed body. The petals are obovate-oblong, obtuse at the apex, apiculate, sometimes a little longer than the sepals and about half as broad as long, marked at the base with chestnut. The glabrous lip is sessile, a little over a half inch long and about a half inch wide at the rounded base, and is deeply three-lobed; the basal or lateral lobes are small, about three sixteenths of an inch long, narrow, obtuse at the apex; the terminal lobe is large, with a rather long and broad claw, broadly reniform, up to a half inch long and three-quarters of an inch wide, cordate at the base, and with the apex notched; the crest is white, marked with chestnut. The column is about threesixteenths of an inch long, and the obtuse wings about one eighth of an inch long. The plant from which the illustration was made was collected in 1913 by J. N. Rose on the island of Antigua, and flowered at...
