In appearance the plant has the aspect of Epidendrum 
elongatum, as has been already stated ; and like it has the 
whole of the upper part of the stem provided with closely 
pressed distant sheaths, instead of leaves, on which the spike 
of flowers is arranged. The latter is very rigid, between two 
and three inches long, regularly zigzag, with a short hard 
tooth-like bract at each bend, so that the spike without the 
flowers resembles a coarsely -toothed narrow double-edged saw. 
The flowers are about an inch long, white, and rather droop- 
ing, spreading quite open. The labellum, in which alone any 
colour resides, is straw-coloured on the middle lobe, and violet 
at the tips of the lateral lobes; along the middle, as far as the 
separation of the lobes, it is convex and covered with purple 
down ; while the disk of the middle lobe is broken up: into 
yellow granulations. 
We shall take another opportunity of pointing out in what 
way Bromheadia most differs from its allied genera, Cymbi- : 
dium, Grammatophyllum, Renanthera, &c. 
_ Our drawing was made from a specimen communicated by 
His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, in November 1841. 
_ Fig. 1. represents a front view of the column; 2. the 
inside of the lip; and 3. gland and pollen-masses. 
