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the species is therefore most remarkable, the two last-named localities 

 being separated from each other by the entire breadth of the South 

 American Continent at its widest part, and both remote from the 

 station in which it was first discovered. 



E. selligerum. 



Encyclium. Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, clothed when young with pale mem- 

 braneous sheaths, smooth and pea-green when older, variable in size, the 

 largest 3 — 4 inches in diameter, diphyllous. Leaves linear-ligulate, 9 — 12 

 inches long, leatbery, deep green. Peduncles 3 — 4 feet long, loosely 

 paniculate, many flowered. Flowers fragrant, 1-| inches in diameter; 

 sepals and petals similar and equal, clawed, spathulate, concave, brown 

 with a pale margin ; lip adnate to the column at the base only, three- 

 lobed, the side lobes spreading, roundish oblong, white, the intermediate 

 lobe ovate, apiculate, crisped, light purple ; disk fleshy, scooped. Column 

 triquetral, winged, green above. 



Epidendrum selligerum, Batem. in Bot. Keg. 1838, misc. No. 66. Lindl. Fol, 

 Orch. Ep. No. 26. 



First sent from Guatemala by Mr. G. Ure Skinner to Mr. 

 Bateman in 1836, and, fide Lindley, subsequently detected by 

 Galeotti, near Oaxaca, in Mexico, growing on rocks and trees at 

 an elevation of 3,000 feet. It is occasionally imported with other 

 Mexican and Guatemalian orchids, the plant from which our descrip- 

 tion was taken being an instance and which flowered in our houses 

 in the summer of 1889. As a species it comes near Epidendrum 

 ionosmum, from which its larger-sized pseudo-bulbs and leaves and 

 especially the acute, not emarginate, labellum of its flowers chiefly 

 distinguish it. The specific name, selligerum ("saddle-bearing''), 

 refers to the saddle-like disk of the labellum. 



E. Skinneri. 



Barkeria. Stems slender, 6 — 12 inches high, resembling those of the 



smaller fasciculate Dendrobes. Leaves lanceolate, acute, 3 — 5 inches long, 



Peduncles slender, a foot or more in length, jointed below with a closely 



adherent acute whitish bract at each joint, racemose above. Flowers on 



slender pedicels, 1^ inches long, coloured like the perianth which is bright 



magenta-purple except the yellow disk and orange lamellae of the lip ; 



sepals and petals ovate-lanceolate, acute ; lip oval-oblong with three long 



and two short elevated lines, the longer ones confluent at the apex. 



Epidendrum Skinneri, Iktem. in Bot. Reg. 1836, t. 1881. Bot. Mag. t. 3951. 

 Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 196. Warner, Set. Orch. I. t. 38. Barkeria Skinneri, 

 Paxt. Mag. Bot. XF. (1849), p. 1. De Puydt, Les Orch. t. 6. 



One of the numerous discoveries of Mr. G. Ure Skinner, who sent 



