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EPIDENDRUM glumaceum. 

 Glumaceous JEpidendrmn. 



Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Epidendre^. 

 EPIDENDRUM. Botanical Register, vol. l.fol. 17. 



§ OsMOPHYTUM, Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. no. 135. 



^.glumaceum ; pseudobulbis ovatis apice angustatis diphyllis, foliis anguste 

 oblongis patentibus, racemo terminali cylindraceo e squamis glumaceis 

 acuminatissimis pedunculo longioribus erumpente, sepalis linearibus pe- 

 talisque ! lineari-lanceolatis acuminatissimis, labello obovato acuminate 

 convexo integerrimo basi unicalloso. Bot. Reg. misc. no. 50. 



This very pretty plant was imported from Brazil by 

 Messrs. Rollissons. It has the habit and sweet odour of 

 ^. fragrans, from which it differs in the colour of its flowers, 

 in the long tapering figure of the flower-buds, which is 

 caused by the peculiar form of the sepals and petals, and in 

 the shape of the labellum, which is convex not concave, obo- 

 vate, and delicately striped with pink at its base. 



It derives its specific name from the long, withered, sharp- 

 pointed, ribbed scales, resembling the glumes of grasses, out 

 of which the raceme of flowers grows. 



It submits readily to cultivation in the moist stove. The 

 soil in which it grows best is rich brown turfy peat, well 

 mixed with the materials of drainage. It requires a good 

 supply of water, both at its roots and also over its leaves, and 

 is not so easily injured from this element as many other plants 

 belonging to the order. This treatment however is of course 

 only applicable during its growing season, for, like other 

 plants of the kind, it should be kept nearly dry at certain 

 periods. 



It is propagated by division of the rhizoma or prostrate 

 ringed stem, out of which the pseudo-bulbs grow. Every 

 ring is produced by the fall of a scale, or rudimentary leaf; 



