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that we know of. It flowered in the nursery of Mr. Groom, 
who received the bulbs from Peru. 
23. ERIA cochleata. 
E. cochleata (Tonse) ; foliis lanceolatis coriaceis- 5-costatis, sepalis glabrius- 
culis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis, labello basi costis 5 apice 3 undulatis 
lineato : lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio oblongo-spathulato, scapo 
elongato radicali multifloro ovarioque alté costato cochleari glabris. 
A plant from Manilla, with very much the appearance of 
E. stellata, from which it differs in having smaller flowers, a 
smooth scape, and a shining ovary with high ribs, which are 
twisted so as to have the appearance of a very deep-threaded 
screw. The sepals are very pale green, the’ petals and lip 
white, the latter painted with crimson veins and margin. 
From Messrs. Loddiges. 
24. The Section of EPIDENDRUM named 
Á MPHIGLOTTIUM. 
Many years ago, in the Transactions of the Horticultural 
Society, Richard Anthony Salisbury proposed the name of 
Amphiglottis for the Epidendrum elongatum of Jacquin. 
More recent writers have, however, preferred to retain that 
species in the genus where it was first stationed. In the 
year 1841, in attempting to form natural subdivisions of the 
great genus Epidendrum, I proposed, in Hooker's Journal of 
Botany (vol. 3. p. 81.) several sections, among which was one 
of which the aforesaid Epidendrum elongatum was taken as 
the type, and to which the name of Amphiglottium was ap- 
plied: Salisbury's name being a little altered, so as to be of 
the same gender as Epidendrum, in order to enable those 
who prefer to regard the plants collected under it as a dis- 
tinct genus, to do so without at all disturbing the nomen- 
clature. | 
The characters by which it was proposed to distinguish 
the section Amphiglottium were the long leafy stem, with 
distichous leaves, the want of any tendency to form pseudo- 
bulbs, a terminal peduncle covered with close sheaths, and a 
labellum entirely united to the column. Three years addi- 
tional experience has brought me acquainted with many more 
species than I then possessed, and, not having induced me to 
