lip. All the veins are covered with crisped keels. Colour 
whitish, with purplish or purplish violet radiating rays over the 
lateral lamin and the middle one. Colwmn semiterete, with an 
impressed androcliniwm, whose limb is often toothletted. Anther- 
case depressed, sometimes a little impressed at the top. Stig- 
matic hollow oblong. Colour of column whitish, with some 
purplish or purplish violet streaks, according to the colour of the 
radiating streaks of the lip. 
Materials : — Ure Skinner's wild specimens and sixteen garden 
‘Specimens ; one specimen, out of the Jardin de l’Ecole de Méde- 
cine at Paris, bears unusually large flowers; others, from the 
Botanic Garden at Geneva, 1853, and the garden of M. Van 
Houtte, Ghent, are unusually small-flowered ; we saw once more, 
the other day, the types in Dr. Lindley’s collection ; description 
from the living plant in the Hamburgh Botanic Garden. 
Tab. 89.—A very small plant. 1, an expanded flower; 2, side view of 
the same; 8, lip of the same; 4, expanded lip; 5, oblique view of 
column, anterior and side view; 6, pollinaria, seen from the top; 7, pol- 
linaria, side view: all magnified (+). Fig. 4 by Professor Reichenbach, f. 
—H. G. BR. f. 
I first knew this Epidendrum from a specimen received from 
Mons. Von Houtte, of Ghent. I afterwards obtained it from 
Guatemala, through the Messrs. Low, of Clapton, and also from 
the late Mr. G. U. Skinner. It is a pretty sweet-smelling species, 
producing its flowers freely in the Mexican house, where it is 
grown suspended on a block of wood. It should be kept dry 
during the season of rest.—W. W. S. 
