Epimpenprvo ; a species which looks very much like the 
Scnompurexia, or Spead-Eagle of the nurseries, 
but much stronger. Hartwee sent specimens of 
it from Chantla, in the State of Qucelieance 
Opontoctossum elatum. 
Hartwecia purpurea, &c., &c.”’ 
Descr. Root, or more properly, rhizoma, creeping, and 
bearing at uncertain Seiiesiler pseudo-bulbs, four to five 
inches long, which are compressed and two-edged, and which 
have also prominent angles on the two flattened sides, so as 
to render them tetraquetrous. These are clothed with large, 
keeled, membranaceous scales, Leaves generally two from 
each pseudo-bulb, sometimes one, varying much in size and 
length, from five to eight or nine inches, oblong-lanceolate, 
blunt, coriaceous, glossy, smooth and even on the surface. 
Scape from the top of the bulb in the axil of the leaves, a 
foot and a half to two feet long, two-edged, jointed, clothed 
with carinated scales, and bearing two or three large, ex- 
ceedingly showy flowers. Perianth delicate ssiecliah rose- 
colour, spreading : Sepals lanceolate ; petals nearly ovate, 
all much acuminated, and each with a greenish line or nerve 
on the back. It may be observed that the petals and 
sepals in our plant have an exactly intermediate character 
between the 2 and @ of Dr. Linp.ey. Lip large, three-lob- 
ed: the lateral lobes involute, so as to include the column, 
of a deep rose colour at the margin, within yellow with deep 
red lines : middle lobe oblong, acute, recurved, deep purple, 
the disk with the base within yellow, and the middle having 
an elevated, thickened, yellow line, terminatine in three 
ridges. Column semicylindrical. Pollen-masses eight. 
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Fig. 1. Pollen: magnified. 
