ovate, blunt or emarginate; a cartilaginous depressed cuneate- 
oblong callus goes out in three teeth at the very base of the 
middle lacinia; sometimes there are some warts on the middle 
lacinia, sometimes not, as we have ascertained in various years 
on the flowers of the same plant in Consul Schiller’s collection. 
Column trigonous. Androchnium bordered by three lacinie, 
the middle one often cucullate, oblong, with toothlets, bearing, 
as is seen in Osmophytum, before it a little short broad tooth- 
letted membrane; the side laciniz are serrate outside. The 
stigmatic hollow is subject to many variations, transverse oblong 
or transverse pandurate. Both lp and column are the same 
colour as the sepals and tepals. The depressed anther-case is 
often orange. ‘The callus is sometimes whitish. The fruits are 
pear-shaped, with three argute and three depressed coste. 
The figure of the ‘ Botanical Register’ is certainly taken from 
a plant flowering the first time. W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., 
complains, in a memorandum, that the plant we have named 
ochraceum is widely distinct from Dr. Lindley’s,—that one has a 
triangular middle lacinia to the androclinium, a callus contracted 
in the middle, and three rows of warts. Plants flowering the 
first time are very deceptive, the buds having frequently suffered 
considerably from the voyage, of been formed by an indisposed 
plant. 
We have never seen an inflorescence quite similar to the one 
represented in the ‘ Botanical Register.’ Thus our correspondent 
is quite right. But we are right too, knowing perfectly Dr. Lind- 
ley’s typical specimens, and having his own handwriting on the 
label of a specimen given to us. 
Materials : — Described from living plants in Consul Schiller’s 
garden, with the assistance of consulting our own sketches and 
fifty-seven specimens in our herbarium. 
Tab 88.— The plant. 1, expanded flower; 2, side view of the flower, 
seen obliquely ; 3, oblique anterior view of lip and column; 4, 5, 6, ex- 
panded lip; 7, column, side view: 8, the same, oblique anterior view ; 
9, pollinaria, viewed from above; 10, side view of pollinaria: all mag- 
nified (+). Figures 5, 6, 7, from H. G. R. f—H. G. BR. f. 
Eipidendrum ochraceum is an interesting free-flowering species, 
which I received from Guatemala through the kindness of the 
late Mr. G. U. Skinner. It lasts in flower some time, and is not 
difficult to grow in a cool temperature, attached to a block of 
wood with a little green moss, or placed in a basket filled with 
peat, moss and charcoal. It is impatient of too much moisture, 
but does not like a dry atmosphere.—W. W. S. 

