346 ORCHIDES. 



EPIDENDRUM. 



Unis , lobo medio triangulo acuto , lamellis gemiriis infra excavatis ovatis obiusis, an- 

 trorsis , contiguis. — Caracas Wngenerl Panama P. Chagres Behrl 



107. EPIDENDRUM DIGIBDtlROSUM Rchb. fll. MSS.: minus , labelli lobis medianis acut- 

 angulis antrorsis. lobo medio oblongo - ovali acuto , callis geminis infra excavatis 

 triangulis , extrorsis distantibus. — E Guatemala in horl. Schill. iniroduct. 



§ 4. Hormidium. Lindley in Hooker's Jonrnal of Botany III. 81. 



We here flnd a set of creeping species, with true pseudobulbs . sessilc (or nearly 

 sessile) flowers, and a lip adnate lo the column. They differ from Aulizeum and Os- 

 mopbytum in ihe pseudobulbs , and in the flowers not beitig in conspicuous race- 

 mes; from Lanium in their flowers not being panicled and woolly; from Spaihium, 

 Amphigloltium , and Euepidendrum in iheir stems not being lenfy. 



(Tota sectio superflua ad Aulizea pertinet!) 



108. EPIDENDRUM PYGMAEUM Hooker Journal of Doiany L 49. t. 118. Bot. Mag. t. 

 3233. Huc Lindl. 1. c. 84.: 



E. foliis brevibns lanceolatis subundulatis acutis, floribus solilariis, 

 sepalis ovalo-lanceolatis acuminatis laleralibus majoribus iabello sublus 

 adnatis, pelalis angustioribus acnminalis incurvis, labelli trilobi columnae 

 adnali laciniis lateralibus rotundalis erectis intermedia Iriangulari acu- 

 minata. 



Epideniirum uniflomm Liiidl. in Bot. Reg. 1839. Misc. 13. 

 Wild in Brazil — Harrison; Jamaica — Hooker; Mexico — Darker (v. v. c). -- 

 Flowers small, yeilowish green . one or two togelher. I have nowhere found a 

 wild specimen of this. 



109. EPIDENDRUM MISERUM Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1^41. Misc. 62. Huc Lindl. 1. c. 85.: 

 E. caulibus ovalibus exuvialis cornpressis aggregatis, foliis , 



scapo brevissimo subbifloro, spatha bivalvi pedunculis subaequali mem- 

 branacea, sepalis ovatis acutis, petalis linearibus, labelli trilobi lobis 

 iateralibus rolundatis inconspicuis, intermedio truncato emarginato callis 

 nuUis (?). 



Wild in Mexico ; near Oaxaca — Loddiges (v. v. c). — Pseudobulbs about half an 



inch high. Scape, peduncules, and ovaries, taken togelher , aboul tlie same length. 



Flowers a dull , dingy , greenish brown , not unlike those of E. musciferum. 

 110 EPIDENDRUM CAESPITOSUM Po|.pig and Endl. N. G. et Sp. Pl. II. t. 101. Huc 



Lindl. I. c 86.: 



E. pseudobulbis subcyliiuli icis diphyllis , foliis ovali-lanceolatis aculis, 

 floribus in sinu folii paucis brevissime spicatis aut sessilibus, sepalis 

 petalisque subaeqiialibus lanceolalis, labello integro transverso reniformi 

 lateribus rotundalo breviler apiculalo nudo, capsula subrotunda triptera. 



Coelogyne tripfera Ad. Brongn, Voy. Duperr. t. 42. A. 

 Wild in Peru; on trees in dense forests belween C.uchero and Pampayaco — Poppig. 

 — Flowers hnrdly a line iong, green , with a white lip. 



111. EPIDEjNDRUM SERPENS Lindl. in Bonlh. Pl. Hartweg. p. 149. Huc Lindl. 1. c. 87.: 

 E. pseudobulbis oblongis 2 — 3-phyllis, ioliis ovato-lanceolatis 



aculissimis, sepalis ovatis, petalis lineari-Ianceolatis, labello cochleato 



serrulalo laevi, capsula ovali triquetra. 



Wild in Peru ; inountains near Chiquirihamba , creeping among Lichens — Hartweg 

 (v. a. sp ). — Flowers rather large , deep violet ; the pseudobulbs so crowded 

 togelher , ihat ihey must form a carpct when growing wild. It is remark^ihle , tiiat 

 no straps nppear lo he connected wilh ihe pollen - masses in ihis species, but some 

 powderj maitcr is formed in its stead. The capsule is larger iban the leaves. 



