Solenidium
(from solen, a tube, and eidion, appearance; in allusion to the shape of the flower). ORD. Orchideae. A monotypic genus. The species is a curious, stove, epiphytal Orchid, with the habit of Oncidium. It differs in the crest of its lip consisting of a pair of long, feathery, raised plates, and in one or two other technical details. For culture, see Oncidium. S. racemosum (racemose). fl. yellow, spotted with red, mediocre, long-pedicellate, in a loose raceme; sepals and petals free, spreading; lip spreading at the base of the column, contracted in a long claw; scapes axillary under the pseudo-bulbs, simple. November. l. rather long, ensiform, thinly coriaceous, narrowed at base. Stem shortened, terminating in a one or two-leaved pseudo-bulb. h. 6in. Andes of Columbia. (L. & P. F. G. iii. 102.)