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Cyrtochilum (Supplement)

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.