more than a foot long, with many nervous scariose acute sheaths, 
which wither early. Inflorescence racemose, or even panicled with 
a few side-branches. Bracts scariose triangular acute, many- 
nerved, as long as the stalked ovaries, or much shorter, especially 
in the garden-plant. Ovary with a long thin adnate spur. Sepals 
hgulate-acute. TJ'epals a little broader. Lip cuneate-oblong or 
ovate-acute, perfectly entire or a little crenulate, also obscurely 
three-lobed, cucullate, with two small keels at its base running into 
two nerves, and with the third central nerve covered with small 
wartish lobules; lateral veinlets with ramentaceous erect mem- 
branes. Column half-terete, wider near the stigmatic hollow, trifid 
at its apex, the posterior lacinia linear. Flowers white. Lip 
sulphur-colour, with brownish purple radiating streaks on the 
veinlets. Column white, sulphur-colour under the stegmatic hollow. 
Anther-case brownish purple. The dried flowers have brownish 
pallid sepals and petals, and the lip has a purplish hue. 
There are several species, near to one another, which would 
stand very well with old Hpidendrum Skinneri, Bat., if they had 
no free column. 7. neévosum, Lindl.! is immediately recognized 
by its rounded goitre at the base of the lip. I have it in nine 
specimens: Oaxaca, Karwinski! Galeotti! two garden specimens. 
Dr. Lindley having written in his diagnosis “cuniculo ventri- 
coso,’ we must keep his name. J. non-chinense has a long 
adnate spur. 
A third unpublished species is this :— 
EpipENDRUM sTRopHINX. Pseudobulbis fusiformibus plurivaginatis, 
pedunculo elongato dense vaginato, racemo plurifloro, brac- 
teis triangulis acutis plurinerviis, ovariis pedicellatis duplo 
brevioribus, cuniculo adnato apice valde ampliato, non ventri- 
coso, sepalis tepalisque ligulatis acuminatis, labello cuneato- 
oblongo acuto, callo in basi depresso in venas tres medianas 
ramentaceas exeunte, venulis lateralibus omnibus muticis. 
It had small rosy flowers, ike those of #. non-chinense, the lip 
pallid, lateral veinlets purplish, ramentaceous part of lip yellow. It 
was said to come from Guatemala with a “ Barkeria” spectabilis, 
and flowered about 1860 in Consul Schiller’s garden. It died 
long since, and my sketches and one inflorescence are all that is 
left in Kurope, to my knowledge. 
Materials :—A careful copy of Dr. Lindley’s herbarium speci. 
men and of his analytical sketch; various analytical sketches 
made by me from the dried Mexican, Guatemalan and Chontales 
