Tas. 5336. 
E PIDENDRUM PRISMATOCARPUM. 
Prism-fruited Hpidendrum. 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pr®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 4 
Gen. Char. Sepala patentia, subsqualia, lateralibus basi haud productis. 
Petala nunc conformia et wqualia, nune diversissima. Ladbellum unguiculatum, 
cum columna parallelum et omnino v. parte connatum : limbo integro v. diviso, 
basi szepius callo duplici, costa v. tubereulo nune interjectis instructo ; nunc veri- 
similiter in ealcar productum, pedicello immersum ideoque columne caniculum 
formans. Columetla elongata: clinandrio marginato spe fimbriato, semiteres 
ecornis, basi seepius caniculata. Podlinia 4, coriacea, eequalia, compressa ; caw- 
diculis totidem replicatis ; glandula libera nulla. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis.— 
Herbze epiphyte Americe calidioris, nunc terrestres. Caulis nunc pseudobulbosus 
nunc elongatus, foliosus. Folia carnosa rarissime venis elevatis striata. Flores 
solitarii, spicati, racemosi, corymbosi, vel paniculati, terminales vel laterales, se- 
pius siccati coriacei, raphibus farcti. Lindl. 
EpIDENDRUM prismatocarpum ; pedunculo elongato multifloro, ovario abbreviato 8 
triptero, sepalis petalisque ligulato-lanceolatis acutis, labello unguiculato — 
cordato acuminato utrinque obtuse auriculato, crista bicruri linea interjecta — 
lanceolata, clinandrii appendice quadrata tridentata. Lindl. es 
EvrpEnprum prismatocarpum. H. G. Reichenbach, in Bot. Zeit. 1852. p. 729. 
Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Epidendr. p. 9. n. 23. es 
Epripenprum Uro-Skinneri. Hortulan. 
This peculiar-looking species of pidendrum we have received 
in July, 1862, from the stove of Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nur- 
sery, and also from Mr. Tucker, gardener to George Reed, Ksq., 
Burnham, Somerset. It appears to have been cultivated in some cee: 
gardens under the name of £. Uro-Shinneri, but Dr. Lindley | 
refers us to the Bot. Zeit. for 1852, where it was published _ 
from dried specimens under the name of &. prismatocarpum, so 
named on account of the three sharp angles or wings of the — 
ovary. It isan inhabitant of Chiriqni, Veragua, Central America, — 
and is one of the many interesting discoveries of the botanical — 
- SEPTEMBER Ist, 1862. 
