pains, while holding the office of H. B. M. Consul General 
at Mexico, to enrich our gardens and herbaria with the 
choicest vegetable productions of that interesting region. 
This, the finest of the very tine Genus Epipenprum, we 
wish to bear his name, in testimony of his botanical exer- 
tions, and we know that, could the late noble possessor of 
the gardens at Woburn express his mind, it would at once 
respond to our wishes and sanction its adoption. 
Descr. Siem elongated, rounded, branched, partially 
sheathed with a greyish, delicate membrane. Leaves three 
on our specimen : of which the lowest is a span or more 
Jong, in shape linear or oblong-lanceolate, remarkably 
thick, (one-fourth of an inch in thickness,) between fleshy 
and coriaceous, rather obtuse at the apex, on the upper 
side having a depressed, central line, and a fainter one of 
the kind on the underside. The middle leaf is a little 
longer than this, somewhat acuminated, the acumen cari- 
nated and grooved: the upper leaf is almost a foot and a 
half long, the base (for about four inches) deeply carinated, 
the rest with the sides closely complicated and tapering 
into a long and very narrow point. The base of this leaf 
ives rise to a large, membranous, sheathing bractea, and 
within this is a short stalk bearing two to three large and 
very handsome but scentless flowers, nearly four inches 
across, Sepals and petals similar, linear-lanceolate, much 
acuminated, spreading, dingy or brownish-green. Lap 
combined with the column, deeply three-lobed, orange, the 
lateral lobes half-cordate, slightly erose, the middle one 
longer than they, linear or lanceolate and acuminate. At 
the base of the lip are two conspicuous, parallel glands. 
The column is short, dilated upwards: the anther-case 
hemispherical, four-celled. Pollen-masses four, flattened, 
each doubled upon its own short stalk. 
Fig. 1., Column, from which the free portion of the lip is removed, just 
above the two glands. 2. Anther-case. 3, Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
