Together with Cymhidium f bituberculatum, soon to be 
figured in this work, Mr Shepherd was so obliging as to send 
me from the Liverpool Garden the present highly curious little 
plant, introduced by Mr Wiles from Jamaica, but of which 
I am equally at a loss as with the Cymbidium just mentioned, 
to ascertain accurately the genus. Indeed I have only reduced 
it to the genus Epidendrum, on account of its general affinity 
with Epidendrum polybulbion of Swartz, a plant, again, 
which cannot belong to the same genus as the E. nutans of 
this work, which latter may probably be considered as the true 
type of the genus Epidendrum. 
Fig. 1. Plant, natural size. Fig. 2. Back view of a flower. Fig. 3. Under 
view of the same. Fig. 4. Side view of the same. Fig. 5. Flower de- 
prived of its three outer petals. Fig. 6. Column and lip. Fig. 7. Front 
view of the column and of the two inner petals. Fig. 8. Upper part of 
the column; the anther having fallen away. Fig. 9« Anther. Fig. 10. 
Pollen-masses, removed from the same.'—All but Fig. 1. more or less mag- 
nified. 
