Refugium Botanicum. | [June, 1869. 
Abe Ok. 
Tribe EprpENDRE. 
Genus EpipeNpDRUM, Sw. 
Ii. ANTENNIFERUM, Lindl. Paxton’s Flower Garden, 1., Gleanings, 234 
te 118! (labello forsan monstrose quinquedentato), Folia i. Hpiden- 
drum, No. 195; Rehb. f. in Walp. Annal. vi. 882! Amphiglottium 
seu potius Aulizeum, caulibus cespitosis humilibus pauci-vaginatis 
di- triphyllis, foliis cuneato-oblongis acutis geminis ternisve, pedun- 
culo longissime exserto multivaginato, vaginis compressis acutis 
marcescentibus, anthesi terminali peracta ramulis lateralibus evo- 
lutis Hpidendri fuscati, Sw., more, bracteis triangulis acutis parvis, 
ovariis longi-pedicellatis, sepalo summo a basi unguiculata ligulato 
seu ligulato, sepalis lateralibus oblongis acutis multo latioribus, 
tepalis linearibus summo apice spatulatis sepala in planta spontanea 
prope quater, in planta culta nunc vix ter, longe excedentibus 
deflexis, labello a basi rotundato dilatato obtuse trilobo, lobis late- 
ralibus rotundatis, callo depresso antice tridentato in ima basi, 
androclinio integro.— LH. longipetalum, A. Rich. d Gal. in Ann. des 
Se. Natur. 1845, p. 22, et tab. ined. Orch. Mew. 17. 
This curious plant was discovered, as it appears by Galeotti, 
in 1840, at Talea, near Oaxaca, in Mexico, 4000! Perhaps the 
discovery belongs to Jiirgensen, as the high numbers above 5000 
of Galeotti usually do: our plant is his No. 5238. In 1841 it 
was gathered on Quercus crassipes, H. B. K., at the foot of the 
Pic de Orizaba, over Calcahuallo, 6—7000’, by Liebmann, whose 
specimen was at hand, lent from the Museum of Copen- 
hagen. We obtained two very good specimens out of Schmitz’s 
Mexican herbarium; one has a lateral inflorescence, with leafy 
bracts. Though no locality is indicated, one may guess they 
came from the vicinity of the capital of Mexico, since the late 
Schmitz could not extend far his excursions from that town. 
Dr. Lindley, we believe, got the plant only from gardens. The 
two specimens he obtained came from Xalapa, Henchmann, 
and out of the famous garden of M. Pescatore at La Celle de 
St. Cloud. We have ascertained that his own specimens have a 
trilobed lip, not a five-toothed one, as the woodcut in Paxton’s 
‘Flower Garden’ represents. It perhaps would be justice to rest 
on Achille Richard’s elder name, his diagnosis being quite ex- 
ceptionally good, indeed almost suflicient for us to fairly 
