HEMISCLERIA. 
SEPALA erecta, agp eats eequalia. 
ALA conformia, branacea. 
LaBetiumM dependens esters lineare, sessile, coriaceum, 
sepalis longius, basi c. columné continuum ; lineis 3 rectis 
elevatis. 
OLUMNA nana, semiteres, basi juxta labellum utrinque auri- 
culatum ; clinandrivum membrana marginatum. Stigma fovea 
circularis. 
Portia 4, ovalia, eequalia; caudiculis 2 pulvereis replicatis 
in unam connatis ; glandu en Anthera 4-locularis, carnosa, 
loculis membranaceo- -margina 
Herba epiphyta, Americze ini caulescens. Folia coriacea, 
disticha. Corymbus terminalis, pedunculatus. Flores coriacei, 
semiclaust. 
A singular plant, with quite the habit of an Amphiglottian Epidendrum. 
From that genus it differs in its — sepals — girs — the lip and 
in no degree oblique ; in the latter gradually passing i he column ; and 
i Pp all round eth i 
connection with the former. It may be added that p hangs 
down from the foot of the column, instead of being parallel with it, as in 
Epidendrum. 
1. H. nutans. 
Wildin Perv ; Chachapoyas—Mathews, (v. s. sp. in hb. Miers.) 
The single a i “art rare plant, preserved in Mr. Miers’ herbarium, 
has no number. ate of a hard stem about six inches long, closely 
covered with c pes gee soho leaves. The Beene: ape of sal so 
sho at its b: 
it thickens into ms club- shaped fata closely covered with sm 
coriaceous flowers, and stiff acute bracts, very much shorter than the stiff 
icels, The oh Paget are roundish ovate, concave, very obtuse, and erect. 
ut fla 
ere 
central is much the largest. The auricles of the column are 
petaloid. 
Fes, 19, 1853. 
