gardeners have sent it sometimes as if from there; I have, how- 
ever, no typical specimen certainly gathered there. Brazil; 
Dr. Lindley said (Folia!) that the locality given by Professor 
Morren, St. Catharine’s, is certainly erroneous. Now, the plant 
occurs in the collection of drawings and descriptions made near 
Lagoa Santa, in Brazil, by Dr. Warming, from Copenhagen. The 
flowers, put in spirits, appear to be lost, but the drawing 1s, I 
cannot doubt, as faithful as possible. It must, however, have 
been a very poor, wretched specimen, since Dr. Warming saw it 
but with a 5-flowered inflorescence. I must state that I never saw 
any tolerable plant, comparable to the giant wild specimens, in 
any garden: it would appear that the plant can never be kept 
alive for any considerable time. 
Stem bulbous, tumid at the very base, nearly terete, with 
sheaths and distichous cuneate oblong-acute or cuneate ligulate- 
acute leaves. Flower-stalk long, exserted, ancipitous, sheathed. 
Terminal raceme and numerous lateral racemes from the sheaths, 
sometimes two or three close together, often nodding, sheathed 
at their base. Bracts minute. Ovaries scabrous, in very different 
development. Dorsal sepal cuneato-oblong ligulate, bluntly acute, 
Lateral sepals broader, blunter. Tepals filiform, a little dilated 
at their apex. Lip adnate with the claw of the column; lateral 
lacinie semi-ovate, with some teeth on the outside, or a very pro- 
jecting tooth at the anterior edge, or rounded semi-ovate, some- 
times much lobed, or very much heart-shaped at the base; middle 
lacinia linear-ligulate, blunt, bilobed, with diverging lobes. ‘I'wo 
obtuse-angled calli before the column, running out into long keels, 
and bearing a third middle keel. Androcliniwm minutely lobed. 
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Materials:—Various sketches from fresh flowers made at 
different times; twenty herbarium specimens. 
Tab. 112.—A plant, in the narrow state in which it is seen in 
gardens. 1, front view of flower +; 2, side view of flower, with 
scabrous ovary +; 8, lip and column of another variety +, given by 
Professor Reichenbach. 
This is an unpretending species of Hpidendrum, with dull 
brownish flowers, but tall graceful foliage. I have to thank the 
Messrs. Veitch for this addition to my collection. The plant 
erows freely in a damp, cool, shady house, grown in a pot with 
peat and sphagnum.—W. W. 8. 

