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so many plants were brought to England in 1834 by Mr. 
Lance, has at length flowered in this country, with Thomas 
Brocklehurst, Esq. of the Fence near Macclesfield, who re- 
cently imported it from Surinam. The flowers were much 
paler in their colours than those of the plant in its native 
country, but this was doubtless owing to the dark season of 
the year. 
13. EPIDENDRUM (HORMIDIUM) uniflorum ; rhizomate moniliformi, 
floribus solitariis, sepalis petalisque linearibus acuminatis incurvis, labello 
trilobo columne adnato laciniis lateralibus rotundatis erectis intermedia tri- 
angulari acuminatá, sepalis lateralibus labello suppositis eique adnatis. 
A Mexican plant of no beauty, with yellowish green 
flowers, imported by George Barker, Esq. of Birmingham. 
The genus Epidendrum 1 once thought very natural ; 
but it is now becoming so very extensive, that it comprehends 
plants with extremely different habits, and it is daily be- 
coming more desirable for it to be divided. But great as is 
the diversity of appearance among the species, there is a 
singular uniformity in the structure of their flowers, and it 
is not a little remarkable that such differences as exist can 
scarcely he said to be connected with corresponding diffe- 
rences in the organs of vegetation ; so that, as far as I am 
at present able to discover, if Epidendrum is broken up, by 
means of characters taken from such modifications as are 
employed for the definition of other genera, the new groups 
are scarcely more natural than the old one. For this reason 
I have suppressed the genera Auliza and Amphiglottis 
of Salisbury, and the Encyclia of Sir William Hooker, as 
genera depending upon mere differences of habit and not of 
fructification. For instance, Encyclia has the labellum sepa- 
rate from the column; and if this were always connected 
with the pseudo-bulbous stem and panicled inflorescence of 
many of the species, it would be an excellent character ; 
but Æ. equitans, smaragdinum, and others, have the disunited 
lip with an entirely different mode of growth; this is espe- 
cially the case with the beautiful Æ. bicornutum.. So with 
Auliza of Salisbury, the type of which is E. ciliare ; this 
supposed genus was distinguished by there being a long 
fistular cavity proceeding from the base of the lip down the 
ovary, or, in other words, by its labellum being calcarate, 
and the calcar consolidated with the ovary, as happens in 
