EPIDENDRUM osmantHom. 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. Orcnipra.—Tribe EPrpenpReat, 
Genus Errpenprvm, Linn. ; (Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 528.) 
Ermenprum (Encyclium) osmanthum; pseudobulbis 3-5 poll. longis obpyri- 
formibus teretibus 2-phyllis vaginis scariosis tectis demum nudis, felis 
8-18 poll. longis 1}-poll. latis sessilibus loriformibus apice rotundatis 
corinceis enerviis medio sulcatis costa subtus gracili, scapo gracili fusco- 
viride roseo maculato laxe paniculatim ramoso ramis elongatis apices 
versus paucifloris, bracteis brevissimis triangularibus late scariosis, — 
ovario cum pedicello 1}-pollicari viridi, perianthio 13-2 poll. lato 
.  explanato, sepalis petalisque equilongis carnosis incurvis concavis apici- 
bus rotundatis flavis rubrolineatis, sepalis obovato-oblongis, petalis 
orbicularibus unguiculatis unguibus luteis, labello submembranaceo 
sepalis triente longiore unguiculato trilobo, ungue columnam amplec- 
tente, lobis lateralibus explanatis rotundatis grosse crenatis albis roseo 
suffusis, terminali late obcordato crenato lateribus deflexis albo roseo 
. lineato, disco breviter costato, colamna aurea apice auriculis 2 quadratis 
porrectis instructa, anthera depressa. 
E. osmanthum, Rodrig. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. Nov. vol. ii, (1882) p. 134. Rolfe 
'. tm Orchid Rev. vol. iv. (1896) p. 291. Cogniaur in Martius Fl. Bras. 
vol. iii. pars V. p. 64, t. xix. fig-2. eee. 
E. Godseffianum, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol.i. p. 136. DL. Orchidoph, 1892, 
p- 289. Rolfe in Orchid Rev. vol, ii. (1894) p. 323. - 
E. Capartianum, DL. Lind, in Lindenia, vol. vii. p. 93, tab. 333; in Journ. des 
Orch, vol. vii. (1896) p. 209; Orchid. Hxot. p. 758, . 
The Brazilian species of Hpidendrum have quite lately 
been described in detail by Cogniaux, in a monograph 
of the Orchidex of that country, now appearing as a 
volume of Martius’s * Flora Brasiliensis.” This admirably 
executed work will undoubtedly prove, when finished, the 
most valuable contribution to American Orchidology that 
has hitherto appeared, and it has the best wishes of all 
botanists for its completion. The Brazilian species of 
_Epidéndrwm (of which there are one hundred and forty-one) 
are grouped under five sections, to one of the largest of 
which, Eneyclium, FE. osmanthum is referred It ir » native 
of forests in the pruvinces of Minas Geraes, and of Pernam- — 
buco, from which latter province it was introduced by 
Messrs. Sander & Co.in 1899, from whom the fine 
specimen here figured was purchased for the Royal 
SEpremBer Ist, 1901. 
