Tab. 7586. 

 EPIDENDRUM xanthtnum. 



Native of Brazil. 



Nat. Ord. Obchide.e. — Tribe EpidexdrE/E. 

 Genus Epidendbttm, Linn.; (Benth. 8c Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 528.) 



Epidendrtjm (Euepidendrum) teantkinitm ; caulibus casspitosis elongatis 

 gracilibus polyphyllis, foliis distichis 3-4-pollicaribus lineari-oblougis 

 obtusis v. apice obtuse 2-dentatis carnosis, pedunculo caule continuo et 

 sequilongo gracili decurvo per totam longitudinem vaginato apice multi- 

 floro, floribus xantbinis in racemnm multiflorum congestis, bracteis 

 snbulatis persistentibus, sepalis petalisque consimilibus patentibus 

 oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, labello usque ad apicem columnae adnato 

 3-lobo, lobis snbasqualibus patentibus fere ad medium laceratis, lateralibns 

 quadratis, terminate subflabelliforme 2-fido, disco basi callo lato depresso 

 4-lobo etalis 2parvis carnosulis instructo, columna aurantiaca, clinandrio 

 parvo marginibus serratis, anthera ovoidea rostrata. 



E. xanthinnm, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. 1844, Misc. p. 18 ; Fol. Orchid. Epiden. ? 



No. 229. Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 395. Veitch. Man. Orchid. Pars. vi. 



p. 127, cum Ic. 

 E. ellipticum, /3 flavnm, Lindl. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. iv. (1810) p. 382. 



Epidendrum xanthinum was discovered by Von Martius 

 on the Sierra del Frio, in the province of Minas G-eraes. 

 It was afterwards collected in the same province by 

 Burchell, and more recently (in 1840) by Gardner, who had 

 previously (1837) found it in the Organ Mountains, near 

 Rio de Janeiro. 



According to Reich enbach in " Walper's Annales," it 

 was cultivated in Loddiges' Nurseries, having been brought 

 from Caraccas by Linden, but this is no doubt an 

 error. It belongs to Lindley's section Euepidendrum, 

 characterized by long, leafy stems, without pseudobulbs or 

 spathe. It has long been in cultivation in the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, where it forms a bamboo-like tuft, in the 

 cool Orchid House, flowering freely in spring. 



Deser. — Stems tufted, one and a half to three feet hi^h. 

 as thick as a goose-quill, sub-erect, except when flowering, 

 leafy throughout, greenish brown. Leaves distichous, 

 uniform, three to four inches long, spreading, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, or tip minutely two-toothed, thickly coriaceous, 



March 1st, 1898. 



