bear exposure to the light, and, while growing, must have a 

 good amount of heat. 



When I first examined the plant I thought it was probably 

 new, but I am now satisfied that Professor Reicbenbach v 

 right in referring it to the E. dickromxm of Lindley, in despite 

 of some minor discrepancies, for which its tendency to run into 

 varieties may readily account. 



The species of Epidendrum are not usually popular with culti- 

 vators, few of them possessing much brilliancy of colour ; bat 

 the present subject is a notable exception — rivalling, as it does, 

 the best of the Barkerias — and there are others of equal or 

 greater beauty still to introduce. Among the latter I would 

 specially instance E. erubescens, which produces a panicle nearly 

 four times the size of the one represented in the Plate, and with 

 flowers of a similar hue. It is a native of Oaxaca, whence liv- 

 ing specimens were imported more than twenty years ago, they 

 all however died because they were kept too warm. Surely an 

 attempt ought to be made to re-introduce so desirable a plant, 

 which we should now be able to manage with perfect ease. — 

 ./. B. 



Descr. Pseudobulbs clustered, from three to six inches long, 

 smooth, round, ovate-oblong. Leaves two or three on each 

 bulb, strap-shaped, from six inches to a foot or more in 1» ngth, 

 rather blunt at the ends, erect, and rigid. Srf/pe, in tin- wild 

 specimens, three feet high or more, bearing a many-flowered 

 panicle. The flowers vary both in their size and tints, some 

 being as large and as brilliantly rose-coloured as the specimens 

 represented in the Plate, while others are almost entirely white, 

 and considerably smaller. Sepals about an inch long," lin< 

 lanceolate, rather sharp at the ends; petals wider than the 

 sepals, and obovate. Lip deeply three-lobed, the middle lobe 

 obcordate, with many ribs on its disk, of a beautiful deep crim- 

 son, with light margin; the lateral lobes are shorter, spreading 

 at the ends, white, externally turned up with purple. Column 

 as long as the lateral lobes of the lip, bearing two short blunt 



Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Polleu-masses :— all slightly magnified. 



