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Cyrtochilum (This genus is now included)

This genus is now included, by Bentham and Hooker, under Oncidium. To the species described on p. 428, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. detortum (distorted). fl., sepals light brown, cuneate-oblong, acute, wavy, the odd one with a little yellow at the upper part; petals yellow, spotted brown, wavy; lip three-cleft, the side laciniae spreading, triangular, and the mid-lacinia ligulate, acute; peduncle very strong, twisted. l. broad-oblong, acute, light green.

C. lutescens (yellowish). fl., dorsal sepal dark brown, with a yellow, recurved margin, much waved at the edge, the stalk very short, with auricles, the lateral ones greenish-brown, acute, longer-stalked; petals with a crisped, yellow limb; lip dark greenish, ligulate, short, the anterior part purple; column greenish, orange, and brown. 1887.