ing many genera of Orchideae, the iabelluni is not parallel 
with the columna in any portion of its length ; the anther, 
instead of being terminal, as in nearly all the genera of 
true Epidendreae, is placed at the back of the columna ! 
exactly as in Neottieae ; there is a large projecting callus 
at the back of the point of the columna, to which we have 
seen nothing similar in this tribe of plants; and the columna 
is tapered off to a point, in which this plant again resem- 
bles Neottieae ; while the secreting stigmatic surface is not 
cv transverse with respect to the columna as in Epidendreae, 
^ but perpendicular, and like a slit in the face of the columna, 
occupying half its length. This curious plant may be named 
* NOTYLIA. 
Perianthium tetraphyllum explanatum : foliolis superioribus aequalibus 
: ^ distantibus; inferiore oblongo bilobo labello supposito. Labellum divari- 
catum integrum medio callosum. Columna libera teres acuminata. An- 
j thera postica unilocularis cum stigmata parallela, Pollinia duo integra 
filo elastico glandulee affixa. Clinundrium planum apice callosum, postic^; 
mai^natam. Stigma : rima antica verticalis. Herbse epiphytce (Americee 
eaquinoctialis). Folia solitaria nervosa stipitata. Spicee radicales. Obs. 
Huic affinis est Cymbidium dependens Lodd. ; planta nimiriUn stnictnr& 
in Orchideis inauditft, et genus proprium (Cirrh£am Nob.) e£R)nnans. 
Sp. 1. Notj^lia punctata. 
Pleurothallis punctata. Suprdfol. 759. ^ 
Sp. 2. Notip'lia multiflora. 
r Pleurothallis ss^ittifera. Humb. Bonpl. et Kunth. nov. gen. et sp. pi. 
. 1.365. t. 91. 
A stemless, parasitical plant. Leaves distichous, sheath- 
ing at the base, deciduous, spreading, oval-lanceolate, 
folded together, nerveless, blunt at the end, mucronulate, 
and oblique ; the upper one thickened at the base, com- 
pressed, two-edged, wrinkled, bulb-like. Spikes axillary, 
many-flowered, cernuous, stalked, the length of the leaves 
before expansion resembling a wheat-ear. Flowers bright 
rose-coloured, one-sided. Pen'flw^Afwwz 4-parted, ringent; 
the upper segments oval, conniving, the lower boat-shaped, 
emarginate, and placed under the labellum. Labellum ungui- 
^ culate, separate ; the claw applied to the face of the columna, 
edged, at the base outside fleshy and cornute ; the lamina 
cuneate, emarginate, obsoletely 3-nerved, fleshy in the 
middle, and bearing an elevated margined callus at the 
base. Columna round, clavate, downy, 2-toothed at end. 
Clinandrium, sloping backwards, naked, elevated like a 
cushion in front. Pollen-masses 2, whitish, waxen, hol- 
lowed out behind, fixed to the common elastic filum of the 
gland. Anther 1 -celled, fleshy, truncate in front. Gynizus 
nearly square, open, with a little inflexed horn on each 
side, finally becoming emarginate at tip. J. L. 
