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culis umbilicalibus uncinatis.——Frutices brasiliensis. Rami teretes, 
foliis oppositis, coriaceis. Inflorescentia terminalis, spicata, strobi- 
lacea. Flores lutei, tegmentis persistentibus maximis suffulti. Teg- 
menta quadrifariam imbricata. 
2. St. glabra ; ramulis glabris ; foliis oblongis, subacutis, coriaceis, glabris, 
nitidis, penninerviis, basi in petiolum attenuatis ; floribus luteis, spi- 
catis, terminalibus, tegmentis persistentibus, nitidis maximis, integer- 
rimis, saturate viridibus, obovatis, acutis, convexiusculis, carinatis ; 
calycibus parvis, quinquepartitis, inæqualibus, albidis, laciniis lanceo- 
latis, acutis, basi bracteis duabus, minimis, oppositis, linearibus, acutis, 
convexiusculis, carinatis, albidis, vestitis ; corollis bilabiatis, tubo an- 
gusto, longo, incurvo, fauce oblique ampliato, limbo dilatato, labio 
superiori semibifido : lobis obtusis, emarginatis, marginibus lateralibus 
reflexis, labio inferiori deflexo, trifido, lobis obtuse-emarginatis, latera- 
libus subbrevioribus reflexis ; filamentis duobus inferioribus lanato- 
villosis, superioribus glabris." 
A yellow-flowered Brazilian Acanthaceous plant, with the 
appearance of an Aphelandra, to which it approaches very 
nearly. [t appears in fact to differ from that genus in little 
except the upper lip of the corolla being broad and reflexed, 
instead of narrow and inflexed, and in the lateral lobes of the 
lower lip being as large as the middle lip. It is not hand- 
some enough to be worth cultivation in gardens of ornament. 
36. Tar Sections or EPIDENDRU M. 
Having in former volumes reduced to their proper places 
such of the species of Epidendrum as belonged to the sections 
Amphiglottium, Osmophytum, Encyclium, and Spathium, I 
now proceed to show what are to be arranged in Hormidium, 
Diacrium, Epicladium, Lanium, and Aulizeum. 
$ HORMIDIUM. 
Hormidium, Lindley in Hooker’s Journal of Botany, 3. 81. 
This section includes a little set of creeping species, with 
true pseudobulbs, sessile (or nearly) flowers, and a lip adnate 
to the column. They differ from Aulizeum and Osmophytum 
in the pseudobulbs, and in the flowers not being in conspi- 
cuous racemes; from Lanium in their flowers not being 
panicled and woolly; from Spathium, Amphiglottium, and 
Euepidendrum in their stems not being leafy. 
1. E. pygmeum (Hooker’s Journal of Botany, 1. 49. t. 118. 
E. uniflorum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, mise. 13.); 
