340 ORCHIDES. 



EPIDENDRUM. 



rotundo plano venis rugulosis, disci callo medio excavato in lineas tres 

 rugulosas procurrenle, columnae auriculis minutis acutis, clinandrio den- 

 ticulato. 



Wilfl in the Caraccas — Purdie v. s. sp. comm. cel. Hoolier). — A slender fjrassy 

 plant. wiih leaves flfieen inches long by half an incli broad. The stellate fiowers 

 and llat round lip are striking peculiarilies in ihe dried state. 



87. EPIDENDRU.M .ADENOCAULON La Mave. LO. 15. Huc Lindl. I. c. 64. 



E. foliis in pseudobulbis binis v. ternis ensiformibus coriaceis , scapo 

 simplici glanduloso, sepalis caiinatis petalisque lineari- lanceolatis sub- 

 aequalibus pafenlissimis , labello tripartito laciniis lateralibus acutis 

 involutis intermedia cordata emarginata obtusa, columnae auriculis pe- 

 taloideis. 



Wild in Mexico ; on trees near Valladolid — La Llave. — Scape two to three feet 

 high. Flowers pale violet, wilh a veiny li|x of the same colour. Bracts membranous. 

 According to La Llave the lip is uniled to the column. 



88. EPIDENDHU.M GRAYIDUM Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. IV. 114 (1849). Huc Lindl 

 1. c. 65. 



E. scapo paucifloro apice flexuoso laeviusculo, floribus pendulis lon- 

 gipedunculatis clausis, pedicellis laevibus, ovariis fusiformibus maximis 

 verrucosis; labelli trilobi lobis lateialibus linearibus, intermedio ovato 

 acuto venis elevatis, columnae angulis superioribus inflexis. 



VVild in Mexico ; near Xapatam — Hartwe? (v. v. c.) — Scape six inches high , four- 

 flowered. Flowers green , never expanding, seaied on a large fusiform dcep olive- 

 green ovary , studded with pale green warts. The ovary is one inch and a halflong, 

 the llower scarcely half an inch. 



Ob.t. Potius monstrum, quam species mihi visura I Rchb. fil. 



89. EPIDENDRUM TRACHYC.VBPUM Lindl. Bot. of Sulphur p. 172. Huc Lindi. I. c. 66. 

 E. pseudobulbis elongato-conicis 2— 3-phyllis. foliis rigidis ensifor- 



mibus canaliculatis aculis, scapo subpaniculafo ramulis pedunculisque 

 scaberrimis, floribus carnosis, sepalis petaJisque oblongis obtusis, labelli 

 laciniis lateralibus nanis semiovatis acutis, intermedia rotundata emargi- 

 nata laevi, capsula ovali scaberrima. 



Wild in W. Mexico; Manzanilla Bay — Hinds (v. s. sp.) — Dried flowers nearly black; 



nalural colour unknown. 



c. Lobo intermedio manifesle bilobo. 



90. EPIDENDRUM TESSELLATUM Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. 9. Hooker , Boi. 

 Mag. t. 3638. Huc Lindl. 1. c. 69. 



E. pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis 2-raro 3-phyIIis, foliis lineari- 

 lanceolatis scapo simplici flexuoso paucifloro longioribus, sepalis lincari- 

 lanceolalis acutis mucronatis pelalisque minoribus subspathulatis, labelli 

 laciniis lateralibus brevibus rotundatis, intermedia majore oblonga un- 

 dulata biloba v. retusa, disci callo lineari tomentoso seriebus tribus 

 verrucarum nunc connatartim a fronte. 



Epidcndrnm livuinm Lindl. in Bot. Rcg. 1838 misc. 91. 

 Wild in Guatem.ila — Skinner; Mexico near Onxacn nt ihe height of 3— 5000 feel - 

 Gnleotti , 50 and 5320; Caraccas Sa. Martha — Purdie (v. v. c. et .s. sp.) — Flowers 

 dingy olive-hrown ; wiih a pale lip tessellated wiih crimsoii. The speciniens vary in 

 the waris of ihe lip ; in one case now bt-fore me ihey form three complete lines wilh 

 rugosities between ; in GalPOtti's n. 50. ihe lines are broken and incomplete ; in 

 anoiher garden specimen seen by me in 1815. the warts were confluent inio a single 

 line lying between ihe downy callus and ihe point of ihe lip. 



