sisting of only two pseudo-bulbs, connected by a veiy stout 

 rhizoma. To this rhizonia a prodigious nvimber of withered 

 flower-stems were attached ; a circumstance so remarkable, 

 that I confidently expected the new-comer would prove a 

 distinct genus, a suspicion which the curious flowers, now 

 for the first time produced, have confirmed. The species 

 grows slowly, but is of easy cultivation, and of a free flower- 

 ing habit. It has not yet increased." 



As a genus it belongs to the set of Maxillaria-like plants, 

 from all which, however, its curious flowers sufficiently dis-' 

 tinguish it. Among M. De Lessert's Brazilian drawings is a 

 second and very fine species, with larger flowers and much 

 broader leaves, found by Descourtilz on the trees that sur- 

 round the foot of the mountains of La Bucanha, and on the 

 borders of the Parahyba, below the town of Rezende, flower- 

 ing in January. This species may be distinguished as 

 follows : — 



T. latifolium ; foliis obovato-oblongis, vaginis acuminatis suprema ovario lon- 

 giore, sepalis lanceolatis acutiusculis, petalis acutis, (labello dorso nudo ?) 

 anthera glabra. Epidendre a chainons Descourtilz Brasilian draw- 

 ings, No. 33. 



In the plate fig. 1. shews the petals and lip, magnified; 

 2. is the lip by itself more magnified ; 3. is the column with 

 its gland-crested anther ; 4. the pollen masses and gland ; 

 and 5. a transverse section of the latter. 



