Tab. 5731. 

 EPIDENDEUM PANICULATUM. 



Paniculate Epidendrum. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide-e. — Gtnandria Monandiua. 

 Gen. Char, (Vide supra, Tab. 5336.) 



Epidendrtjm paniculatum ; foliis distichis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminata, 

 caule apice vaginis membranaceis setaceo-acuminatis vestito, panicula 

 effusa multiflora, floribus gracile pedicellatis roseo-purpureis, sepalis 

 spathulato-ligulatis obtusis, petalis sepalis multo angustioribus fere 

 filiformibus, labelli profuade 4-lobi laciniis lateralibus obovatis obtusis 

 intermedii 2-partiti lobis divarieatis oblique linearibus obtusis, disco 

 2-carinato, cariuis basi subcornutis. 



Epidendrtjm paniculatum. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. Si/st. p. 243. Lindl. 

 Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 10S. 



This, the most superb of all the paniculate Epidendrums, 

 and perhaps the most floribund of Orchids, was discovered 

 by Ruiz and Pavon, near Huavaquil, in Peru ; and since then 

 in the province of Pasto by Hartweg, in Bolivia by Bridges, 

 and in the province of Pamplona, New Granada, by ScnJim, 

 at an elevation of 7-8000 feet above the sea. Its robust 

 yet graceful habit, profuse and lovely rose-lilac flowers that 

 last a long time, and its odour, render it one of the most 

 charming of cool-house Orchids. The specimen here figured 

 was flowered by Messrs. Veitch in April of the present year, 

 and was four feet in height. 



In Lindley's Herbarium we find a much broader-leaved 

 plant bearing this name, with shorter pedicels to the flowers 

 which are described as green, having a white labellum; it 

 was gathered at Truxillo by Funck and Schlim (n. (6^). 



Descr. Stems tufted, erect or inclined, simple, two to tour 

 feet high, covered with the distichous leaves, except at the 

 terete base. Leaves four to seven inches long, narrow-ian- 

 ceolate, acuminate, spreading and recurved, green, otten 

 spotted with purple, keeled. Panicle a foot or more long, 



SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1868. 



