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that we know of. It flowered in the nursery of Mr. Groom, 

 who received the bulbs from Peru. 



23. ERIA cochleata. 



E. cochleata (Tonsse) ; foliis lanceolatis coriaceis 5-co?tatis, sepalis glabrius- 

 culis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis, labello basi costis 5 apice 3 undulatis 

 lineato : lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio oblongo-spathulato, scapo 

 elongato radicali multifloro ovarioque alte costato cochleari glabris. 



A plant from Manilla, with very much the appearance of 

 ]E. stellata, from which it differs in having smaller flowers, a 

 smooth scape, and a shining ovary with high ribs, which are 

 twisted so as to have the appearance of a very deep-threaded 

 screw. The sepals are very pale green, the petals and lip 

 white, the latter painted with crimson veins and margin. 

 From Messrs. Loddiges. 



24. The Section of EPIDENDRUM named 

 Amphiglottium. 



Many years ago, in the Transactions of the Horticultural 

 Society, Richard Anthony Salisbury proposed the name of 

 Ampliiglottis for the Epidendrum elongatum of Jacquin. 

 More recent writers have, however, preferred to retain that 

 species in the genus where it was first stationed. In the 

 year 1841, in attempting to form natural subdivisions of the 

 great genus Epidendrum, I proposed, in Hooker's Journal of 

 Botany (vol. 3. p. 81.) several sections, among which was one 

 of which the aforesaid Epidendrum elongatum was taken as 

 the type, and to which the name of Amphiglottium was ap- 

 plied : Salisbury's name being a little altered, so as to be of 

 the same gender as Epidendrum, in order to enable those 

 who prefer to regard the plants collected under it as a dis- 

 tinct genus, to do so without at all disturbing the nomen- 

 clature. 



The characters by which it was proposed to distinguish 

 the section Amphiglottium were the long leafy stem, with 

 distichous leaves, the want of any tendency to form pseudo- 

 bulbs, a terminal peduncle covered with close sheaths, and a 

 labellum entirely united to the column. Three years addi- 

 tional experience has brought me acquainted with many more 

 species than I then possessed, and, not having induced me to 



