Tas. 5902. 
EPIDEN DRUM eEvectum. 
Native of New Grenada ? 
Nat. Ord. Orcuipez.—Tribe EpipENDREz. 
Epwenprum, Linn. ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid., part 2, p. 1). 
Epipenprum (Amphiglottium) evectum ; caulibus gracilibus valde elongatis 
teretibus ramosis radicantibus, ramis apices versus foliosis, foliis distichis 
4-5-pollicaribus oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis emarginatis planiusculis, 
racemo brevi densifloro, bracteis parvis subulatis, floribus patentibus 
1}-1} poll. diam. lzte roseo-purpureis, sepalis petalisque anguste 
obovatis obtusis, labello column adnato 3-lobo, lobis profunde laceris, 
lateralibus brevibus quadrato-cuneatis, intermedio 2-fido lobis divari- 
catis sinu acuto, disco callo obtuse triangulari sublobulato et basi 
(inter lobos laterales labelli) tuberculis 2 parallelis elongatis instructo. 
I advance this fine plant as a new species with great hesi- 
tation, though supported by the authority of Reichenbach f. 
himself, who has kindly taken great trouble to identify it 
with the numberless closely allied species in the sub-section, 
(Schistochila tuberculata,) to which it clearly belongs. It has 
been’ cultivated in Kew for many years, flourishing in the 
cool end of an “intermediate” Orchid house, where it forms 
@ very conspicuous feature, from the great length of the 
stems, the bright purple of its flowers, which last for a long 
time, and its branching, rooting habit. Its nearest ally 
appears to me to be LZ. Lindeni, Lindl., from which it differs 
in the longer leaves, and more deeply laciniate lip, with the 
midlobe divided into two spreading segments, like a black- 
cock’s tail. There is, however, very little to distinguish it 
from the descriptions of F. fastigiatum, Lindl., dichotomum, 
Presl., Jamesoni, Rchb. f., ellipticum, Graham, and others, of 
which the West Indian F. elongatum, Jacq, (Tab. nost. 611), is 
the first published type, and which all differ by very variable 
May Ist, 1871. 
