sisting of only two pseudo-bulbs, connected by a very stout 
rhizoma. To this rhizoma a prodigious number of withered 
flower-stems were attached; a circumstance so remarkable, 
that I confidently expected the new-comer would prove a 
distinct genus, a suspicion which the curious flowers, now 
for the first time produced, have confirmed. The species 
grows slowly, but is of easy cultivation, and of a free flower- 
ing habit. It has not yet increased.” 
As a genus it belongs to the set of Maxillaria-like plants, 
from all which, however, its curious flowers sufficiently dis- 
tinguish it. Among M. De Lessert's Brazilian drawings is a 
second and very fine species, with larger flowers and much 
broader leaves, found by Descourtilz on the trees that sur- 
round the foot of the mountains of La Bucanha, and on the 
borders of the Parahyba, below the town of Rezende, flower- 
ing in January. This species may be distinguished as 
ollows :— ' i 
T. latifolium; foliis obovato-oblongis, vaginis acuminatis supremà ovario lon- 
giore, sepalis lanceolatis acutiusculis, petalis acutis, (labello dorso nudo ?) 
antherà glabrà.——Epidendre à chainons Descourtilz Brasilian draw- 
ings, No. 33. 
In the plate fig. 1. shews the petals and lip, magnified ; 
2. is the lip by itself more magnified ; 3. is the column with 
its gland-crested anther; 4. the pollen masses and gland; 
and 5. a transverse section of the latter. 
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