70 ESSAYS. 
This is doubtless the S. wncinata of De Candolle ; but not, I 
think, of Willdenow. I may here remark, that the reticulate- 
leaved species (S. uncinata, Torr. & Gr.) is the Leptoglottis 
of De Candolle (‘ Mem. Legum.”’), as I have ascertained from 
a fragment of the original specimen in the rich herbarium of 
Mr. Webb, which that gentleman obligingly sent me; but I 
find no neutral flowers or sterile filaments in the numerous 
specimens of this plant, from different localities, which I have 
from time to time examined. 
