labellum of Broughtonia, and it has not, as far as T can discover, 
the peculiarly deflexed dorsal sepal of Barkeria. Its lip, too, is 
distinctly cucullate, after the manner of a Laelia.” It had been 
given to Dr. Lindley by Mr. Hinds, among plants collected near 
Hong Kong. 
Thus matters stood till the autumn of 1856. It was remark- 
able that no one had seen the plant again. Neither Major 
J. G. Champion, nor Mr. Hance had seen it. “ Lhe Laeliopsis 
chinensis, Lindl., described from Mr. Hinds’ specimens, is not 
among Major Champion’s plants.” At that period I studied 
carefully Dr. Lindley’s Orchid collection, and when I found the 
Laeliopsis I could not help laughing very heartily, not altogether 
to Dr. Lindley’s full satisfaction. I had obtained the American 
plant at several periods—I was very sure of the fact; and Mr. 
Hinds, too, having collected plants in Central America, it was 
much to be wondered at that such an acute observer as Dr. 
Lindley had not immediately suspected some confusion. When 
Dr. Lindley described his Lipidendrum nevosum (K/pidendrum, 
Folia, No. 6) he spoke of the fresh plant; “a plant that flowered 
some years since with Mrs. Lawrence had white sepals and tepals, 
a crimson anther, and a yellow lip, richly dotted with crimson.” 
Now there is in the Lindleyan herbarium, no doubt from Miss 
Drake, a frontispiece painted, only differing a little in the very 
sharp angles of the column, added to the true Specimens of 
E. nevosum from Galeotti; and that is, no doubt, once more the 
HE. non-chinense, with a very cordate-triangular acute lip. I have 
but once seen the true H. nevosum alive, from Mr. Borsig’s garden 
at Moabit, near Berlin; that has whitish flowers, with a somewhat 
rosy hue. 
There is but little doubt that the plant was originally found 
near Veraguas by Mr. Hinds. My specimens come from Mexico, 
Schiede! Costa Rica: Ojo de Agua, Dec. 1855, Dr. Carl Hoft- 
mann! Guatemala, Dr. Bernoulli! It has also been gathered 
near Chontales by Friedrichsthal! (Museum of Vienna !), who 
observed it on sterile stony places. He says it is called 
“ Cebollin,” and the stems give a certain gum. 
Adventitious roots filiform, flexuose, very unequal in extent in 
various specimens. Pseudobulbs close together, as in Dendrobium 
crassinode, stalked, fusiform, with several leaves. Sheaths gene- 
rally wide, nervous. Leaf-blade cuneate, ligulate, acute, the 
lower ones falling off early, all distant. Flower-stalk terminal, 

