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Tas. 6094, 
EPIDENDRUM orinirerum. _ 
Native of Costa Rica. 
Nat. Ord. Orcuipex.—Tribe EpmpenpREz. 
Genus Eprpenprum, Linn. ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Epidendrum). 
Eripenprum (Spathium) criniferum ; caulibus repentibus et fasciculatis 
' simplicibus gracilibus ima basi tuberosis superne foliosis, foliis sub- 
distichis, vaginis teretibus, lamina sessili lineari-lanceolata acuta 
patenti-recurva, spathis pluribus viridibus lineari-oblongis apice 
truncatis, racemo terminali subsessili, bracteis minutis appressis, floribus 
2 poll. diam., sepalis subulato-lanceolatis acuminatis aureis rubro-fusco 
maculatis, petalis equilongis fere filiformibus, labelli laciniis lateralibus 
semi-ovatis incurvis lateribus in processus subulatos undulatos fissis, 
lacinia media porrecta lineari angusta, disco callis 2 parvis supra stigma 
ornato. 
EPmpenprvo criniferum, Reichb. J. in Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 1291. 
This belongs to a large West-Indian and South-American 
section of Hpidendrum, of which many species have been 
described by Lindley in his “ Folia Orchidacea,” by Reichen- 
bach, and by others; of the latter the Cuban JZ. rivulare, 
Lindl, according to Reichenbach, comes nearest to this, but 
differs in the longer and narrower leaves, shorter bristles on 
the lip, and different midlobe of the latter. Reichenbach 
further observes that the lip of this is totally white, but in 
the specimen here figured it is blotched with pale red, and- 
the midlobe is yellow. 
Lipidendrum criniferum was sent for figuring by Messrs. 
Veitch, in whose splendid collection of Orchids it flowered in 
January of the present year. 
Descr. Stems a foot high, in tufts from a creeping root- 
stock, slender, green, leaty, as stout as a swan’s-quill, the 
basal joints swollen and ‘half an inch in diameter. Leaf- 
sheathes one inch long, green, cylindric, with a truncate 
mouth; leaf-blade, three to four inches long by half inch 
broad, spreading and recurved, linear-lanceolate, acute, sessile, 
APRIL Ist, 1874. 
