Tab. 7201. 

 EPIPHYLLUM Gaebtnebi. 



Native of Brazil. 



Xat. Ord. Cacte^e. — Tribe Echinocacte^e. 

 Genus Epiphylitjm, Pfeiff.; (Bent/i. et HooJc.f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 850.) 



Epiphyllum Gaertneri; internodiis 2-3 pollicaribus 1-1J poll, latis late 

 truucatis crenatis crenispiliferis, passim tuberculis longepiliferisinstnictis, 

 floribus terminalibus binis speciosissimis sanguineis coeruleo micantibus, 

 calyce brevi vaginato inequaliter lobato basi pilis elongatis cincto, 

 petalis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis patent! recvurvis, staminibus nume- 

 rosissimis, filamentis capillaribus, antheris minutis oblongis confertis, 

 stigmatibus 5 lineari-elongatis patentibus. 



Epiphyllum Kussellianum, var. Gaertneri, Begel Gartenflor. v. 1844, p. 323, 

 t. 1172 ; Carriers, in JSev. Sortie. 1887, p. 516, cum Ic. chromolith. ; Pape 

 in WittmaeJc. Gartenflor. 1890, p. 581 ; Pynaert in Rev. Hortic. Beige, 

 1889,114; Font. Gad. -p. 873. 



E. Makoyarmm, Hort. ex Pynaert. in Rev. Hortic. Belg. 229, cum Ic. ; The 

 Garden, 1889. p. 375 ; Hamburg Garten & Blumenz.1889, p. 419 ; Journ. 

 of Hortic. 1889, p. 352, cum Ic. ; W. Wats. \in Rev. Hortic. Beige, I.e. 267 ; 

 Kew Bulletin, 1890; App. ii. p. 45. 



Unaccountably as it appears to me, this brilliant species 

 was for long supposed to be a variety of Epiphyllum 

 Russell 'ianum, Hook., figured in this Magazine half a century 

 ago (Plate 3717), a plant that has ever since been a 

 universal favourite with all lovers of horticulture. 



From E. Russellianurn, E. Gaertneri differs in its much 

 larger, broader, thicker crenulate articulations, which arc 

 broadly truncate at the top, regularly crenate on the sides, 

 and with tufts of long hairs both in the crenatures and 

 around the bases of the flowers ; the flowers present even 

 more important differences, in the brilliant colouring, 

 length, and narrowness of the petals, in the almost 

 terete (not broadly winged) calyx tubes, in the very 

 numerous stamens with clustered minute anthers, and in 

 the long spreading stigmas. 



I have followed previous authors in retaining this 

 plant in Epiphyllum, though having regard only to the 

 technical character employed to distinguish that genus from 

 Phyllocadus (the very oblique two-lipped flower of the 



October 1st, 1891. 



