Van, 7278. 
EPIDENDRUM sponptapom. 
Native of Jamaica and Costa Rica. 
N at. Ord. OrncnipE#. Tribe ErrpenpDREZ. 
Genus Errpenprum, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 528.) 
Epipenprum (Osmophytum) spondiadum ; pseudobulbis elongato-fusiformibus 
teretiusculis 1-foliatis, folio ligulato obtuso, peduuculo brevi crasso erecto 
paucifloro basi vaginis 2 oblongis flavis instructo, bracteis parvis trian- 
gularibus, floribus breviter crasse pedicellatis erectis aureis rubro irvora- 
tis, sepalis lanceolatis acutis, petalis spathulato-ovatis acutis, labello 
column crass adnato late cordato apiculato disco 2-calloso, capsula 
globoso-oblonga hexaptera. 
E. spondiadum, Reichb. f: in Bot. Zeit. vol. x. (1852) p. 731. 
KE. variegatum, Hart in Gard. Chron. (1886) vol. ii. p. 11 (non Hook.). 
I am indebted to Mr. Morris, F.L.8S., Assistant-Director 
of Kew, for the following information respecting H. span- 
diadum :—“ This is a rare Orchid in Jamaica, and is 
apparently confined to elevations of about four thousand 
feet in the Blue Mountains. The first specimens were 
gathered in 1881, were cultivated in the Government 
Cinchona Plantations and regarded as a Jamaican form of 
E. variegatum, from which it is evidently quite different. 
_ The specimen figured was noticed by me in flower at 
Whitfield Hall, Jamaica, in February, 1891; and was 
given me for Kew by Mr. Spencer Heaven. I found it in 
flower at Kew on my return from the West Indies in the 
Same year, and it has now (February, 1892) flowered again. 
A note on the self-fertilization of the species (under the 
name of H. variegatum) is given by Mr. Hart, Superintendent 
of the Cinchona Plantations, in the ‘Gardener’s Chronicle’ 
(cited above). The true H. variegatum has not been found 
in Jamaica, in recent years at least, and I am led to doubt 
its occurrence there.” With regard to this last statement, 
it is to be observed that Lindley (‘‘ Fol. Orchid.”) gives 
Jamaica as a habitat for variegatum, misled by a specimen 
labelled as from that country in “ Herb. Hook.” but 
JaNvARY Ist, 1893. 
