Refugium Botanicum. | [ November, 1872. 
TAB. 139. 
Tribe KprmpENDRE®. 
Genus Epmrnprum, Sw. 
KB. non-cutnensr, Rehb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 824! Beitr. Orch. Centr. 
Am.p.108! Radicibus adventitiis flexuoso-filiformibus, pseudo- 
bulbis aggregatis fusiformibus plurifoliis, vaginis ampliusculis 
nervosis, laminis cuneato-ligulatis acutis hysterochronicis, 
pedunculo terminali longius exserto usque ultra pedali, vaginis 
scarlosis nervosis acutis demum emaciatis onusto, apice race- 
moso seu paniculato, bracteis scariosis plurinerviis triangulis 
acutis ovaria pedicellata subequantibus seu eisdem (precipue 
in plantu culta) multo brevioribus, ovarii caniculo longe adnato, 
sepalis ligulatis acutis, tepalis paulo latioribus, labello cuneato- 
oblongo seu ovato seu acuto, integerrimo seu antice crenulato, 
nunc trilobulo cucullato, carinis in basi geminis humilibus 
semiligulatis, venis ternis medianis nune valde approximatis 
nunc distantibus squamuligeris, venulis lateralibus hinc ramosis 
ramentaceis, columna semitereti juxta foveam dilatata apice 
trifida, lacinia postica lineari. Flores candidi. Labellum sul- 
phureum, venulis lateralibus brunneo tinctis. Columna alba, 
antice sulphurea. Anthera rubido-purpurea. — Broughtonia 
chinensis, Lindl.! Hook. Lond. Journ. 1842, p. 492! Laeltopsis 
chinensis, Lindl. ! Paat. F'l. Garden, 11. 105! 
This plant has an uncommon mysterious history. It was 
introduced to Science with the following remarks by our excellent 
Dr. Lindley, nearly thirty years ago:—‘‘It is perhaps not very 
surprising that an American genus should occur upon one of the 
most westerly* points of Asia; yet it is a circumstance so striking 
as to demand strict investigation before 1t can be accepted as 
correct. It does not, however, appear possible to doubt it in the 
case of the Broughtonia, which, although in an indifferent state 
of preservation, indicates all the main features of the genus to 
which I have referred it. It is unquestionably Epidendreous, as 
is distinctly shown by its well-preserved pollen-masses. The 
only doubt that I entertain respecting it 1s whether to place it in 
Barkeria or Broughton. ‘The habit is more that of the former 
than of the latter; but it has the adnate spur belonging to the 
* « Westerly,” a mistake for “ easterly ” ? 
