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EPIDENDRUM glumaceum. 
Glumaceous Epidendrum. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA, $ EPIDENDREX. 
EPIDENDRUM. Botanical Register, vol. 1. fol. 17. 
$ OSMOPHYTUM, Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. no. 135. 
E. glumaceum ; pseudobulbis ovatis apice angustatis diphyllis, foliis anguste 
oblongis patentibus, racemo terminali cylindraceo e squamis glumaceis 
acuminatissimis pedunculo longioribus erumpente, sepalis linearibus pe- 
talisque į lineari-lanceolatis acuminatissimis, labello obovato acuminato 
convexo integerrimo basi unicalloso. Bot. Reg. mise.no. 50. \ 
This very pretty plant was imported from Brazil by 
Messrs. Rollissons. It has the habit and sweet odour of 
E. fragrans, from which it differs in the colour of its flowers, 
in the long tapering figure of the flower-buds, which is 
caused by the peculiar form of the sepals and petals, and in 
the shape of the labellum, which is convex not concave, obo- 
vate, and delicately striped with pink at its base. 
It derives its specific name from the long, withered, sharp- 
pointed, ribbed scales, resembling the glumes of grasses, out 
of which the raceme of flowers grows. 
It submits readily to cultivation in the moist stove. The 
soil in which it grows best is rich brown turfy peat, well 
mixed with the materials of drainage. It requires a good 
supply of water, both at its roots and also over its leaves, and 
is not so easily injured from this element as many other plants 
belonging to the order. This treatment however is of course 
only applicable during its growing season, for, like other 
plants of the kind, it should be kept nearly dry at certain 
periods. 
It is propagated by division of the rhizoma or prostrate 
ringed stem, out of which the pseudo-bulbs grow. Every 
ring is produced by the fall of a scale, or rudimentary leaf; 
