Tas. 4606. 
EPIDENDRUM verrucosum. 
Warted Epidendrum. 
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Nat. Ord. Orcurpp#.—GynanpRria Monocynia. — 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Ta. 4107.) 
Eprpenprvum (Encyclium, § labello trilobo) verrucosum ; pseudobulbis ovatis, 
foliis ensiformibus obtusis, scapo pedicellis’ ovariisque verrucosis, racemo 
nutante, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, labelli trilobi lobis 
lateralibus subfalcatis acutis nanis intermedio ovali crenulato basi serrato 
bilamellato, columna alis 2 nanis truncatis. Lindl. 
EpipENDRUM verrucosum. Lindl. Bot. Rey. 1844. ¢. 51. 
A very lovely species of Hpidendrum of the Encyclia-groupe, 
fragrant as well as handsome, a native of Mexico, imported from 
that country by Messrs. Loddiges. The very fine specimen here 
represented flowered in the Royal Gardens of Kew in July 
1851. > 
Duscr. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, clustered, the flowering ones 
narrow-ovate, smooth, dark green, and more or less sheathed with 
scales or the fibrous remains of them ; the older ones larger, paler 
coloured, broader, wrinkled, and naked. eaves two, from the 
apex of the bulb, from ten inches to a foot long, broad-linear or 
loriform, one-nerved, obtuse. From the axil of these leaves the 
scape arises, as thick as a goose-quill and warted, except where 
it is covered with the sheathing bracteas, when nearly as long 
as the leaves gracefully drooping, and bearing a branching 
panicle of large lilac and white flowers. Branches and ovary 
also minutely warted. Sepals and petals, each two inches long, 
linear-lanceolate, uniform, spreading horizontally. Zip more 
than two inches long, pendent, three-lobed ; lateral lobes oblong, 
subfaleate, half-embracing the column; middle lobe obovate, 
subrhomboid, very large, acuminulate, streaked and lined with 
dark red, the margin crenulate, the disc white, bearing two 
lamelle. Column as long as the Jateral lobes of the lip, deep 
OCTOBER Ist, 1851. 
