NEW OR RARE ORCHIDE.B. 307 



tlie Nile up to its source. Such a purpose appears to call 

 for assistance and support, not only from friends of science, 

 but from all who would benefit mankind in general. We 

 believe that from our long Directorship of the Unio Itine- 

 raria concerns, we have in some degree gained the privi- 

 lege of making such an appeal; and we also think it our duty 

 earnestly to plead for our traveller, from feeling assured that 

 his courage, his objects, and his past services, will meet with 

 the sympathy of every Naturalist. 



A MS. of twenty large sheets, containing one portion of 

 the journal of his Abyssinian enterprise, now lies at Alexan- 

 dria, and will very shortly reach us. 



At the same time, we can also, in accordance with a notice 

 received, announce that the consignment of Kotschy's Plants 

 has not only reached Trieste safely, and passed quarantine, 

 but has also been thence despatched to us on the 4th instant, 

 and insured. 



Prof. Hochstetter, 

 Dr Steudel. 



EssLiNGEN, 9^/iZ>ec. 1840. 



XXII. — New or Rare Orchide^. 



Tab. YII— XII. 



{Continued from page 273 of Vol. I.) 



Epidendrum. 



1. E. porphyreum (Lindl.;) foliis distichis oblongis acutis- 



siniis, squamis spathaceis dense imbricatis acuminatis pedun- 



culo longioribus, panicula acuta simplici multiflora, floribus 



corymbosis, sepalis oblongis acutis lateralibus fulcatis, petalis 



lineari-spathulatis, labelli trilobi laciniis lateralibus rotunda- 



tis intermedia quadrata bidentata, disci axi elevata basi et 



apicem versus bicallosa. (Tab. VII. VIII.) — Lindl. Jonrn. 



of Bot. vol. iii. p. 86. 



Hab. Woods on the Western side of Pichincha, Andes of 

 Columbia. — Prof. IV. Jameson. 



Fig, 1. Flower, f. 3. column and lip ; magnified. 



