Tas. 5929, 
EPIDEN DRUM PsevupeprEenprvm. 
Native of Central America. 
Nat. Ord. OrcuipEa.—Tribe EpipENDREZ. 
Genus Epwenprom, L. (Lindl. Fol. Orchid., Epidendrum.) 
Epipenprum (Amphiglottium) Pseudepidendrum ; caulibus cespitosis validis 
teretibus simplicibus basi modice incrassatis, apicem versus foliosis, 
foliis distichis lineari-oblongis acuminatis coriaceis enerviis, racemo 
terminali laxo paucifloro, pedunculo compresso spathaceo, pedicellis . 
ovariisque gracilibus, bracteis parvis, floribus majusculis viridibus, 
labello columnaque miniato-aurantiacis, sepalis 14-pollicaribus anguste 
spathulatis acutis, petalis sepalis equilongis angustissimis apice dilatato 
elliptico, labello fere orbiculato retuso serrulato, disco carinis 5 percurso, 
callo basi lobato. 
Kpipenprum Pseudepidendrum, Reich. fil, Xen. Orchid., vol. i. p. 160, t. 53, 
PsEUDEPIDENDRUM spectabile, Reich. fil. in Mohl. and Schlecht. Bot. Zeit., 
vol. x. p. 733. 
A very curious species, remarkable for the singularity of 
its colouring, discovered by Warscewicz, growing on a species 
of Ficus, in the Cordillera of Chiriqui, at an elevation of 
4000 feet, flowering in January and February. For this 
information I am indebted to Reichenbach’s “ Xenia,” quoted 
above, where the plant is figured and ‘coloured from a 
drawing made by its discoverer. ; : 
The district of Chiriqui is in the peninsular portion of 
New Grenada, westward of Panama, and bordering Costa 
Rica on the East; it is a hot and humid climate, where the 
Cordillera reaches no great elevation. The specimen here 
figured flowered in Messrs. Veitch’s establishment in the 
King’s Road, Chelsea, in July of this year. It was oblig- 
ingly sent for figuring in the Botanical Magazine. 
OCTOBER Ist, 1871. 
