Tas. 4869. 
PHYSOSIPHON Loppiaestu. 
Mr, Loddiges' Physosiphon. 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEH.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, basi ventricosus, apice trifidus. Pefala in fundo %: 
calycis, carnosa, nana. Labellum et columna Stelidis. Pollinia 2, spherica— 
Herb epiphyte Aaditu Pleurothallidis. Lindl. 
PuysostpHon Loddigesii ; folio oblongo obtuso racemo solitario multo breviore, 
calycis tubo triquetro, labelli lobo medio serrulato scabriusculo. 
PuysosteHon Loddigesii. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub tab. 1797. 
STELIs tubata. Lodd. Bot. Cad. t. 1601. 
Received at Kew from the Belgian cultivators under a very 
inaccurate name; and we are obliged to Dr. Lindley for the — 
correct one, and the reference to the figure in Loddiges’ Bot. — 
Cabinet. “Under the name of Sfelis tubata,” says Dr. Lindley, — 
l.c., ‘Messrs. Loddiges have published a very curious plant, 
with the habit of Pleurothallis, but with its sepals all united 
into a tube, which is inflated at the base and contracted at the 
mouth. Otherwise its fructification has the structure of Sfelis.” 
Besides the present species, Dr. Lindley includes in the genus 
Phys. emarginatus (Pleurothallis, Lindl.), and Phys. spiralis, 
Lindl. (in Herb. Hook., from St. Catherine, Brazil), Phys. cari- 
natus, Lindl. (a species very near the present), Phys. ochraceus, 
Rich. and Galeotti (probably not distinct from this) ; and he has | 
since expressed an opinion that Pceppig and Endlicher’s Speck- 
linia dichotoma is a fourth species. ‘The present one is a native 
of the mountains of Oaxaca, and flowers with us in July. Mr. 
Loddiges describes and figures his plant as having drooping ra- — 
cemes ; it is not so with us. 
Drscr. From apparently a slender, creeping rhizome, arise 
several, four to six or more, plants, each consisting of a petioled, 
oblong, subspathulate, coriaceous, obtuse, one-nerved /ea/, the 
SEPTEMBER IsT, 1855. 
