BPIDENDRUM 89 



Plant to 1 ft. high. Stem 2-3 dm. 1., covered with leaf-sheaths, leafy 

 above. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, very acute, longer than the raceme, 

 blade 4-11 cm. L, 1-2 cm. br. Bracts triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 keeled, 12-5 mm. 1. Pedicels 11-12 mm. 1. Ovary rather longer than 

 pedicel. Sepals oblanceolate, 12-16 mm. 1. Petals narrowly linear, 

 -lightly shorter than sepals. Lip, limb 8 mm. 1., 12 mm. br. Column 

 short, branching upwards, 9 mm. 1. ; clinandrium hooded, undivided. 



9. E. verrueosum Sw. in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 68 (1790; ; 

 without pseudobulbs ; bracts much shorter than flowers ; flowers 

 in a diffuse panicle, sepals and petals J in. 1. ; lip much longer 

 than sepals, 3-lobed with median lobe 2-lobed, lateral lobes and 

 median lobes somewhat oblong with upper margins more or less 

 eroded, three calli on disk at base ; column connate with lip to 

 apex. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1197 : IAndl. Fol. Orel. Epid. 92. 

 (PI. 15, f. 11.) 



On trees, rocks and dry banks; in fl. Dec, -Jan.; Swartzl Wright ! 

 Bancroft I Christiana, Purdiel Lane I March ! Fairfield, Wullschlaegel, 

 1089 ! Manchester, J.P., 2008, 2040, Syme ! Morris ! Blue Mts., J. P. 2048, 

 Morris ! Cinchona; Clydesdale; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7542, 7819. Colombia. 



Plant 1-4 ft. high. Stems 1-6 dm. 1., covered with leaf-sheaths. 

 Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, blade 8-14 cm. 1., 13-30 

 mm. br. ; sheaths covered with minute warts. Bracts triangular, 

 acuminate, 2*5-4 mm. 1. Flowers creamy- white or light yellow. Pedicels 

 about 1 cm. 1. Ovary about 1 cm. 1. Sepals with seven to nine nerves, 

 prominent on inside, elliptical, apex thickened, obtuse, 9 mm. 1., 



4 mm. br., lateral rather narrower and slightly oblique. Petals with 

 three to five branching nerves, linear-oblanceolate, 9 mm. 1., 2-25 mm. br. 

 Lipvath. numerous fine nerves, about 12 mm. 1. Column short, about 



5 mm. 1. (to apes of clinandrium) ; clinandrium with four broad truncate 

 lobes ; anther slightly 2-lobed above. Capsule spindle-shaped, beaked, 

 2-5 cm. 1. 



10. E. patens Sw. in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 68 (1799); w-ithout 

 pseudobulbs ; bracts much shorter than flowers ; flowers in a 

 panicle ; perianth nearly h in. 1. : lip as long as median sepal, 

 3-lobed with median 1< >be 2-lobed, lateral lobes roundish, median 

 lobes oblong, margins of lobes entire, three calli at base of median 

 lobe : column connate with lip to apex. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 149") : 

 non Lindl. in Paxt. Flow. Gard. ii. Glean. 119, /. 198, nee Fol. 

 Orck. Epid. 75; Griseb. op. cit. 617 (in part). 



Stems 20-30 cm. 1. Leaves, blade 5-10 cm. 1., oblong or oblong-lanceo- 

 late ; sheaths smooth. Bracts linear-lanceolate. Flowers pale yellow, 

 shortly stalked. Sepals oblanceolate-oblong, acute, median 1-1 - 1 cm. 1., 

 lateral "9-1 cm. 1. Petals oblanceolate to elliptical, 1 cm. 1. Lip 

 1-1*1 cm. 1. Column stout, concave in front, widening upwards, with a 

 dorsal keel ; clinandrium 3-lobed, median lobe broad, truncate, crenulate. 



We have not seen any specimen from Jamaica, but a specimen in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit, labelled in Solander's hand " Epidendrum patens fl. ind. occid., 

 Barthol." agrees with Swartz's description. Swartz assigns the species to 

 Jamaica and the Carribean Islands and cites Fahlberg as the collector. 

 Samuel Fahlberg, a Swede, visited St. Bartholomew in 1785. The specimens 

 referred by Lindley to this species, belong to the section Amphiglottum, 

 characterised by a closely sheathed peduncle, and have flowers 1 in. across. 



