Tab. 7855. 

 EPIDENDRtJM Endresn. 



Native of Costa Eica. 



Nat. Ord. Okchide^. — Tribe Efidendre^. 

 Genus Epidendbum, Linn.-, {Benth. & Hooh.f. Oen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 628.) 



Epidendrum (CBrstedella) Endresn; caulibus casspitosis strictis rigidia 

 suberectis crassitie pennae columbinse vaginia foliorum verracoaia 

 undique tectis, veraccia rubro-brunneis, foliis bifariis sessilibus 1 poll, 

 longia patenti-recurvis oblongia apice rotundatis v. 2-lobia coriaceis basi 

 semi-amplexicaulibua aupra saturate viiidibna aubconvexis nitidis, costa 

 impresaa, subtua pallidis, racemo terminali breviter pedunculato erecto 

 laxifloro, bracteia lineari-lanceolatia pedicellia pollicaribua dimidio 

 brevioribus, sepalis ad ^ poll, longia oblongia obtusia albis, petalia sepalia 

 SBquilongis obovato-oblongis apiculatia albia, labello aepalis longiore 

 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus oblongia unolatere al bia altero pallide roseis, ter- 

 minali obcordato sinu lato, diaco macula sanguinea notato, columna 

 apice truncata 4-fida, antbera mitriformi. 



E. Bndresii, Rchb.f. in Gard. Ghron. 1883, vol. i. p. 432. O'Brien, I.e. 1885, 

 vol. i. p. 504, fig. 91. 



E, Endresii is a peculiar-looking little species, with 

 box-like leaves, of one of the largest American genera of 

 Orchids. It is a native of Costa Rica, where it was 

 discovered bj Endres, and whence it was imported by 

 Mr. Lehman in 1878. The plant figured flowers annually 

 in an intermediate Orchid house of the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, in the winter months, and has the odour of a freshly 

 sliced cucumber. 



Descr. — 8tems tufted, about a foot high, slender, about 

 as thick as a pigeon's quill, stiff, sub-erect, clothed 

 with green leaf-sheaths, which are thickly studded with 

 minute red-brown warts ; internodes a quarter to half an 

 inch long. Leaves about an inch long, bifarious, sessile, 

 spreading and recurved, coriaceous, broadly oblong, tip 

 rounded or emarginate, deeply channelled along the 

 middle, sides convex, very dark green and shining above, 

 pale green beneath. Raceme terminal, very shortly 

 peduncled, erect, three to five inches long, lax-flowered ; 

 bracts narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, green ; pedicel with 

 ovary about an inch long, slender. Perianth an inch 

 broad. Sepals oblong, obtuse, white. Petals as long, 



SErxE-MBEK 1st, 1002. 



