Flower-stalk longer than the leaf, very thin, with a few short 
distant sheaths, racemose at the summit. Bracts triangular, very 
Short. Stalked ovaries with numerous hyaline rounded warts. 
Sepals ligulato-linear, acute. ‘'epals narrower, attenuated near 
the base. Lip nearly free, unguiculate, trifid; lateral lacinie 
spreading out above the base; middle lacina unguiculate, trowel- 
shaped or nearly cordate, crisp at the margin, middle line from 
three thickened contiguous lines, with a scurfy mealy surface, 
confluent over the claw and having there a groove. Column 
slender, contracted in the middle. Androcliniwn with three teeth. 
I have seen the sepals brown, with cinnamon lines over the nerves ; 
tepals brown; lip and column yellowish. The artist has repre- 
sented the Saundersian plant with brownish orange sepals, and 
too yellow tepals. 
Materials :—My old original sketch and the poor specimen; 
inspection of the Saundersian plant, 1568. 
Tab. 111.—The plant. 1, flower, side view + ; 2, lip +; 8, column 
and part of ovary +; 4, column, front view +; 5, 6, pollinaria +. 
A neat, interesting, and very distinct Epidendrum, received 
from Santa Martha, and collected by Mr. Weir. It does well in 
a warm part of the Mexican house, placed upon a block or grown 
in a small pot. During the season of rest it should be supplied 
very moderately with water—W. W.S. 
