In appearance the plant has the aspect of Epidendrum 

 elono-atum, as has been ah'eady stated ; and hke it has the 

 whofe of the upper part of the stem provided with closely 

 pressed distant sheaths, instead of leaves, on which the spike 

 of flowers is arranged. The latter is very rigid, between two 

 and three inches long, regularly zigzag, with a short hard 

 tooth-like bract at each bend, so that the spike without the 

 flowers resembles a coarsely-toothed narrow double-edged saw. 

 The flowers are about an inch long, white, and rather droop- 

 ing, spreading quite open. The labellum, in which alone any 

 colour resides, is straw-coloured on the middle lobe, and violet 

 at the tips of the lateral lobes ; along the middle, as far as the 

 separation of the lobes, it is convex and covered with purple 

 down ; while the disk of the middle lobe is broken up into 

 yellow granulations. 



We shall take another opportunity of pointing out in what 

 way Bromheadia most differs from its allied genera, Cymbi- 

 dium, Grammatophyllum, Renanthera, &c. 



Our drawing was made from a specimen communicated by 

 His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, in November 1841. 



Fig. 1. represents a front view of the column ; ^2. the 

 inside of the lip ; and 3. gland and pollen-masses. 



