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42. EPIDENDRUM rufum. 
E. rufum ; pseudobulbis pyriformibus 2-3-phyllis, foliis brevibus lanceolato- 
ligulatis patentibus scapo paniculato brevioribus, sepalis petalisque ova- 
libus acutis subcarnosis, labelli trilobi laciniis lateralibus brevibus semi- 
ovatis intermedià obovato-oblongà convexa margine revolutä apice 
rotundatà basi secus axin elevatà carnosà, columnà membranaceo- 
margınata. 
This species of the Encyclium division is very near E. 
flavum, from which it differs in the colour of the flowers, the 
form of the lip, and the shortness of the leaves. The following 
memorandum from Mr. Booth, gardener to Sir Charles 
Lemon, fully explains its history. | 
**'Phis plant was imported from Rio in 1842, by Lieut. 
Turner, of H. M. Packet ‘ Ranger,’ and presented to Sir 
Charles Lemon, Bart, M.P., with whom it flowered at 
Carclew, in May, 1844. It has a great resemblance both in 
habit and general appearance to Encyclia patens; but its 
flowers are very different, and although not so gaudy as some 
of its brethren, I have no doubt of its proving a desirable 
plant when well grown. It requires a warm moist atmo- 
sphere, and thrives pretty well attached to a block of wood 
suspended from the rafters of the stove. 
* Pseudo-bulbs two or three-leaved, pear-shaped, about 
three inches long, and four inches in circumference, furrowed 
when old and of a deep-shining green, but almost wholly 
covered when young with several large pale brown sheathing 
scales. Leaves of a dark green, flat and rigid, erect or 
slightly spreading and recurved; oblong-lanceolate acute, an 
inch wide, and from six to eight inches long. Scape issuing 
from the crown of the pseudo-bulb—round and erect, from 
fifteen to eighteen inches high, with several joints having 
each a small dark brown acuminate bract, and bearing a 
profusion of brownish yellow flowers at the top for about a 
third of its length, arranged in a sort of loose panicle. 
Pedicells round and slender, slightly curved, pale green. 
Sepals spreading oblong lanceolate, blunt at the point, an 
inch long, and about a quarter of an inch wide—thinnish 
towards the base, but fleshy outwardly — the upper one 
curved, the other two slightly twisted and undulated. Petals 
rather shorter than the sepals, and narrower, having their 
edges somewhat reflexed. Labellum three-lobed, curved and 
deeply divided. The two lateral lobes are small, ovate- 
