1867 
y EPIDÉNDRUM armeniácum. 
Apricot-coloured Epidendrum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ EPIDENDREZ. 
EPIDENDRUM.—Supra, vol. 1. tab. 17. 
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E. armeniacum ; caulibus teretibus, foliis lanceolatis coriaceis acutis subplicatis, 
racemis pedunculatis cylindraceis nutantibus, sepalis patulis ovatis acutis, 
petalis setaceis, labelli subcucullati laciniis lateralibus rotundatis intermediá 
ovatá acuminatá : callo magno oblongo in disco. 
Caules erecti, compressi, semipedales, foliis 3-4ve distantibus in spa- 
tham abeuntibus vestiti. Racemus 3-4 poll, Flores minuti armeniaci coloris. 
Bracteze setacee ovario triplă breviores. 
A native of Brazil, where it was found in company with 
Grobya Amhersti®, figured at fol. 1740 of this work. It 
was first seen in England in flower in the year 1835, at one 
of those splendid exhibitions in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society, which attest more strongly than even the 
country residences of our nobility and gentry, the skill and 
perseverance of English gardeners. There, in the midst of 
the dazzling scarlet or pink of various kinds of Cacti, and 
surrounded by the brilliant plumes of Chinese Azalea flowers, 
that weighed down their graceful branches, which really 
seemed as if they were proud of their lovely burthen, from a 
basket of humble moss, a little tuft of stems of this species was 
seen to rear its modest head, as if in hopelessness of attracting 
notice in so gay acompany. The neatness however of its tiny 
flowers, the pleasing tint of its apricot-coloured petals, the ele- 
gant form of their slightly nodding or even drooping clusters, 
and the novelty of their form in so well known a genus as 
* See folio 1415. 
