two or three sheathing scales at the base, bearing a single in- 
clined or drooping, large, sweet-scented flower. Sepals white, 
or very pale greenish straw-colour, lanceolate; the lateral ones 
singularly reflexed and twisted. Petals of the same colour, 
ovato-lanceolate, recurved. zp very large, projecting, between 
orbicular and obovate, three-lobed, the lateral lobes ovate, ob- 
tuse, involute, middle lobe very broad retuse: the colour is 
white, with a broad purple margin, and a few purplish streaks 
on the disc. At the base is a large, shield-like, nearly square 
disc, radiated with a few furrows, and streaked with purple, the 
edge emarginate, with three obscure teeth at the apex. Column 
short, covered by the side-lobes of the labellum, white. 
Fig. 1. Labellum. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
Note.—At our Tab. 4759, for “ Mr. Stamford’s Epidendrum,” read “ Earl 
of Stamford’s Epidendrum.” At the time the description was drawn up, we had 
not access to our copy of Mr. Bateman’s Orchidee of Mexico and Guatemala, 
where alone, as far as we know, the explanation of the name is given. 
