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Pelargonium ; but the same character exists in £. vesicatum, 
which has no resemblance to E. ciliare. With regard to the 
Mexican plant recently published by Messrs. Knowles and 
Westcott under the name of Prosthecia or Epithecia glauca, 
I fear it must be united with Epidendrum, for it does not 
differ from the greater part of the Encyclia division in 
any essential circumstance; the columna is by no means 
“nana” in the sense in which that word is employed by 
Botanists, and the process at the back of the apex of the 
column is common in numerous species of Epidendrum, 
(rigidum for instance); and is what, when thinned away, 
forms a hard or petaloid scale at the back of the column in 
such plants as E. ciliare, clavatum, nocturnum, cucullatum, 
and many others. 
It is for reasons of this kind that I hesitate actually to 
separate the curious little-plant which has given rise to these 
remarks. Its necklace-shaped pseudo-bulbs placed upon a 
creeping rhizoma give it a peculiar habit, and have suggested 
its name, (ópuos, a necklace); and it is capable of being 
defined with apparent precision by the union of the anterior 
sepals with the base of the labellum, to which I know of no 
parallel in the genus Epidendrum, except in the case of 
Epidendrum pygmeum and E. cespitosum, plants with a 
similar habit, and no doubt belonging to the same section, 
subgenus, or genus, whichever Hormidium may eventually 
become. 
14. BRASAVOLA grandiflora ; folio (plano ?) angusté lanceolato rigido la- 
bello maximo subrotundo-quadrato acuminato ungue longiore, sepalis peta- 
lisque linearibus acuminatissimis. 
Flowers of this, which is much the finest species of 
Drasavola yet known, have been lately received from Hon- 
duras by the Hon. W. F. Strangways. The limb of the 
labellum, which is white, is considerably larger than a half- 
crown, and the sepals and petals are nearly three inches 
long. Those who have commercial relations with Belize 
should make a point of obtaining this beautiful plant from 
their correspondents. It resembles a gigantic specimen of 
Br. nodosa. 
