Tas. 6098, 
EPIDENDRUM (Barkers) LInDLEYANUM. 
Native of Costa Rica, 
Nat. Ord. Orcuipem.—Tribe EpIpENDREA. 
Genus Eprenproum, Z.; (Lindley Fol. Orchid. Epidendrum). 
Eprpenprum (Barkeria) Zindleyanum; caule tereti ramoso non bulboso, 
foliis elliptico-oblongis acutis patenti-recurvis planiusculis enerviis sub- 
tus carinatis, vaginis breviusculis, scapo gracili terminali laxi-plurifloro, 
bracteis viridibus subulato-lanceolatis, floribus patentibus purpurels, pedi- 
cello ovarioque gracillimis, sepalis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis 
consimilibus sed latioribus, labello” oblongo-quadrato apiculato ungue 
brevi basi column adnato, disco albo 2-carinato, columna clavata anguste 
alata, apice 3-loba. 
E. Lindleyanum, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann., vol. vi. p. 375. 
Barkerta Lindleyana, Batem. in Bot. Reg., vol. xxviii. Mise., p. 2, et in 
Orchid. Mex., tab. xxviii.; Paat. Mag. Bot., vol. xiii. p. 193. 
According to Reichenbach the genus Barkeria falls into 
Epidendrum, and no doubt rightly ; and I cannot but wonder 
how it was that Lindley, when revising the latter genus in 
- his “ Folia Orchidacea,” failed to perceive that Barkerva must 
be united with it, the character of the winged colun.n being 
a very trivial and far from conspicuous one, and the amount 
of adnation between the column and lip in Epidendrum itself 
being, as in Barkeria, very variable. eee 
Reichenbach further places all the Barkerias 1m a natural 
section of Hypidendrum, which he designates as Amblostoma, 
characterized by a free or nearly free lip; to which section 
the name of Barkeria, now so well known amongst horticul- 
turists, may be equally well applied. 
E. Lindleyanum is a native of Costa Rica, where it was dis- 
covered by the late Mr. Skinner. The specimen here figured 
flowered in Mr. Veitch’s establishment in December last, and 
has larger flowers, of a paler colour than those of the plant 
figured by Bateman, and by Paxton in his Magazine. _ 
“Descr: Stems a foot or more high, terete, sparingly 
MAY Ist, 1874, 
