Tab. 5654 



EPIDENDEUM Coopeeianum. 



Mr. Cooper's Epidendrum. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide,e. — Gynandria Monandria. 

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



Epidendkum (§ Spathium) Cooperianum ; caulibus rigidis erectis versus 

 apicem foliosis, foliis disticbis lanceolatis acutis pedunculo denso 

 nutaube multifloro e spatba herbacea carinata subduplici orto vix 

 a?quantibus, bracteis minutis setaceis, flonbus carnosis, sepalis ovali- 

 lanceolatis acutis, petalis minoribus lineari-lanceolatis acutis, labello 

 amplo basi bicalloso trilobo, laciniis lateralibus, maximis subrotundo- 

 cuiieatis, intermedia transversa reniibrmi alte eniarginata, liuea elevata 

 per discum currente ; clinandrio obtuse dentato. — Bateman. 



Epidendrum Cooperianum. Batem., mss. 



Cultivators scarcely need to be told that the vast genus 

 Epidendrum is divided, as respects habit, into two grand 

 divisions, i.e. the species that have and the species that have 

 not pseudobulbs. They are also well aware that it is among 

 the latter that the most describable kinds ai^ generally to 

 be found. There are, however, a few exceptions, amongst 

 which must be numbered the plant now represented, which 

 has a neat, compact, caulescent habit, and will well repay 

 cultivation. It is named in compliment to Mr. Cooper, of 

 Alpha House, Old Kent Eoad, a very zealous collector and 

 successful grower of Orchids, who had the merit of exhibit- 

 ing it for the first time at one of the Tuesday meetings of 

 the Horticultural Society in the spring of last year. A 

 month or two later, it was exhibited at another of these 

 meetings by Mr. Dawson, of Meadow Bank, near Glasgow. 



It is a Brazilian plant — probably from the neighbourhood 

 of llio — and grows readily in the Cattleya house, but it 

 should also be tried in the Mexican house, in which very 

 many Brazilian Orchids — especially divers Oneidia — would, 

 I conceive, succeed perfectly. The Cattleya house itself 

 jult 1st, 1SG7. 



