Tab. 5643. 

 EPIDEKDKUM ebtjknbtjm. 



Ivory-flowered Epidendrum. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^e. — Gynandria Diandria. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5336.) 



Epidendrtjm (Euepidendrum) eburneum ; caulibus erectia fasciculatis 

 teretibus foliosis, foliis oblongia lineari-oblongisve planiusculis obtusis 

 coriaceia enerviis, racemo termin:ili 4-6-floro brevi inclinato, bracteia 

 parvis viridibus late ovato-triansularibus, aepalia lineari-lanceolatis 

 acuminatia integerrimia pallide citrinia, petalis angustioribus, labeJlo 

 ungue columnae adnato lamina ampla cordato-rotundata acuta inte- 

 gerrima planiuscula eburnea baai 2-tuberculata, columna crasaiuscula 

 apice truncata sub-5-dentata. 



Epidejtdruh eburneum. Reichenb. fil. in Gard. Chron. 18G7, p. 404. 



A handsome stove Orchid, discovered by Mr. P. Hender- 

 son, of the Royal Mail Packet Company's service, by whom 

 it was sent to T. R. Tuffnell, Esq., of Spring Grove, Isleworth. 

 It was found within a few miles of Colon, in Panama, grow- 

 ing in swamps, close by the railway, and flowered with Mr. 

 Tuffnell in December, 1866. It belongs to the subsection 

 " plain [folia racemosa" of the section Euepidendrum in Lind- 

 ley's arrangement of this vast and difficult genus, as given in 

 his ' Folia Orchidacea,' but is wholly different from all de- 

 scribed species, and from any preserved in the Lindleyan or 

 Hookerian Herbaria at Kew. Though wanting the gorgeous 

 colours of so many stove Orchids, its good foliage and ivory- 

 white lip recommend it for cultivation. 



Descr. Stems tufted, one to two feet high, terete, leafy, as 

 thick above as a swan's quill, more slender below, deep green. 

 Leaves alternate, spreading, plane, three and a half to four 

 and a half inches long, and an inch and a quarter broad, 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, amplexicaul, very coriaceous, with an 

 impressed costa but no nerves, dark green on both surfaces. 

 Raceme terminal, without spathes or membranous bracts, 



siat 1st, 1S67. 



