plant from which this drawing was taken flowered in the 
stove in March of the present year. 
Easily cultivated in decayed vegetable soil, in a good 
stove, not exposed to the direct rays of the sun. Being 
‘one of the bulbous tribe of Epidendrums, it is not advisable 
to cultivate it in baskets suspended in the air, such treat- 
ment being applicable to those kinds only which are not 
bulbous. 
This species offers the only instance we at present 
recollect, in the tribe, of hairs being produced around the 
margin of the stigma; they exist here in the form ofa soft, 
conspicuous, thin, villous border. 
Bulbs forming a tuft, about 6 inches long, round, com- 
ressed, wrinkled. eaves solitary, about twice as long as 
bulbs, elliptical-lanceolate, acute at each end, coriaceous, 
plaited, obsoletely nerved. Scape radical, weak, round, 
longer than leaves, clothed with a few distant membranous 
scales. Panicle simple, rather one-sided, spreading, many- 
flowered. Bractee ovate, membranous. lowers scarcely 
resupinate, olive-green outside, banded and spotted with 
light brown in the inside. Two lower sepals connate, 
smaller than the rest. Labdellum panduriform, much tuber- 
culated on the disk. Coluwmna with two little linear blunt 
fleshy wings. Cliandrium with a toothletted margin. 
Stigma and rostellum downy. 
J. L. 
