Tas. 6022. 
ARPOPHYLLUM spicatum., 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord, Orcuwwea.—Tribe EpipEnpRE. 
Genus Arpornyiium, Llav. and Lex. ; (Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid., p. 151.) 
ARPOPHYLLUM spicatum; caudice repente crassitie perme olorine, vaginis 
inferioribus granulatis, folio pedali complicato arcuato ligulato subacuto 
carinato, pedunculo brevi suberecto, spica cylindracea densiflora — 
3-5-pollicari, floribus purpureo-roseis } poll. diam., petalis sepalis 
subequalibus margine postico eroso, labello 3-lobo concavo margine 
eroso, lobo medio parvo orbiculari. 
ARPOPHYLLUM spicatum, Llav. and Lex. Nov. Veg. Descript., vol. ii. p. 195 
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid., 151; Bot. Reg., vol. xxv. Mise. p.16; 
Ann. Nat. Hist. 1840, vol. iv. p. 384; Benth. Pl. Hartweg., p.72; 
Walp, Ann, vol. vi. p. 448, 
Apparently a very rare plant, since, though described up- 
wich of forty years to by Sate and Lexarca, and introduced 
into this country in 1839 by Hartweg, it has hitherto never 
been figured or accurately described. Indeed, so imperfect is 
the original character given by the author just mentioned, that 
I depend less upon it for the identification of the plant here 
figured, than upon Lindley’s having referred the plant collected 
by Hartweg (with the dried specimens of which this accords) 
to Llave and Lexarca’s Arpophyllum sprcatum. Tt is a native 
of Mexico, and was first found by its describers at Sultepec, 
and near Aricubaro (localities which I do not find in any map 
or gazetteer), and later by Hartweg, at the Hacienda del 
Carmen, wherever that may be. There are other specimens 
of apparently the same plant in the Hookerian Herbarium, 
collected by Galeotti, in the Oak and Pine region of Oaxaia, 
at 7000 to 8500 feet elevation; and by Jurgensen on the 
Sierra San Pedro Nolasco, Talea, &c. These differ greatly in 
MARCH Ist, 1873, 
