of those members of the distichous Hpidendra which have free 
labella,—a section I once called Amblostoma,—which must also 
receive the so-called Barkerias. My private opinion is, that Hpv- 
dendra must be resolved into many natural smaller groups. 
I began to do so with very good success in my herbarium, ‘and 
will try to explain those groups in my General Monograph, which 
would have been, perhaps, already published if I had found 
sincere assistance at certain places. 
Adventitious roots filiform, much bent. Stems crowded, with 
distichous leaves. Sheaths narrow, obliquely cut, with many small 
transverse folds, then brown, geminate, ribbed; ribs very rugose. 
Leaves linear-subulate, semiterete, apiculate, nearly cordiform in 
the transsection, green, in first youth yellow-green, laterleek-green, 
with many impressed groves. /'lower-stalks terminal, solitary or 
several together, with a few sheaths, very short and small, bent 
over. Bracts triangular, not nearly equalling the stalked ovaries. 
A little goitre at the top of the ovary. Sepals ligulate bluntly acute, 
lateral ones with an obscure keel over the middle nerve. Tepals 
ligulate-rhomboid, obtuse-angled. Jip pandurate, with a blunt 
apiculus, quite even. Column trigonous, free, broader above. 
Materials :—Description of the living Saundersian plant, 1868 ; 
inspection of a type of Swartz’s in Osbeck’s herbarium, and of 
Dr. Lindley’s types; my own rich materials quoted above; my 
sketches, but from dried flowers only. 
Tab. 140.—A plant. 1, 2, 8, three summits of stems in flower, or 
fruit (8); 4, flower, sepals cut +; 5, lip and column +; 6, column 
and lip +; 7, expanded lip +; 8, column, front view +; 9, 10, 
pollinaria +. 
A very unpretending member of the large genus Epidendrum, 
which with me grows slowly and seems wanting in vigour, 
although it flowers pretty freely. It seems to do best in the 
temperate house, grown upon a block. My specimens came from 
Trinidad, and were sent to me by Mr. Hance.--W. W. S. 
