EPIDENDRUM. 



ORGHIDEIS. 36& 



Very like E. geminillorum , bui the flowers are largfer , more fleshy , and have a long 

 (listended pouch in front of the ovary. The lip is undivided , has oniy two calli , and 

 in place of the iniermediate lameila there is a dull triangular space, covered wiih 

 minute asperities. 

 202. EPIDENDRUM LACUSTRE. Huc Lindl. I. c. 157: 



E. loliis ialis obLusis , spalha duplici suprema acinaciformi, racemo 



brevi umbellaeformi, pedunculis ovariisque 4-plo longiohbus, sepalis 



petalisque linearibus acuminalis patentissimis, labello subcordato-ovato 



acuminato obsolete trilobo, callis baseos acutis linea elevata interjecta. 



Epulcndrum leucochilum Lindl. Orch. Linden n. 47. nec Klotzsch. 



VVild in Veneziii.la ; on holf - submersed rotten trees in the marshes of Laguneta , in 



the province of Merida , at ihe height of 8000 feet — Linden 684 (v. s. sp.) — Tbis 



is described as being from ibree to four feet high , with tbe purest white flowers. 



They are iwo inches and a haif across . and consequently among the largest in 



tbe genus. 



m EPIDENDRUM LEUCOCHILUM Klotzsch in Allg. Gartenz. 11. p. 146. Ic. Plant. rar, 



berol. t. 46. Paxlon's Flower Garden HI. ; gieanings n. 622. ic. 303. Huc Lindl. I. c. 158. 



E. foliis coriaceis obtusis, spatha magna solitaria pedunculo longiore, 



umbella brevi cernua, sepalis petalisque lineari-Ianceolatis patentissimis, 



labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus magnis oblique orbiculatis, intermedio ovali 



basi bicalloso lineisque tribus elevatis, clinandrio cucullato truncato. 



Epidendrum flavidum Lindl. Orch. Lind. n, 48. 

 Wild in New Grenada ; terrestrial in tbe cold region near Chitaga in the province of 

 Pampiona, at the beight of 9000 feet ; April — Linden 2213 ; Funck and Scblim 1084; 

 province of Ocanna , near S. Pedro , at the elevaiion of 6000 feet — Schiim 743 ; 

 Caraccas — E. Otto at the beight of 4500 feet (v. s. sp. comm. cei. Linden). — A very 

 fine cauiescfini piant. Leaves coriaceous , oval , acute. Fiowers green , with a snow- 

 wbite iip. In Fiinck and Scb!im's 1084, the calii at tbe base of ibe lip are wrinkled, 

 and seem almost liiree - lobed and the spatbe is not more tban three- quarters of an 

 inch- iong. VVben tbe Orchidaceae Lindenianae were pubiished , I only knew this 

 plant by the specific character and description given of it in ihe Aiigememe Garten- 

 zeitung; and I tlien supposcd it to be different from wbat a flgure in the Icone» 

 Berolinenses now sbows it to he. Under this misapprehension , when I found it 

 among Mr. Linden's Orchids (n. 2213), 1 thought it new, and calied it E. flavidum, 

 an error wbich is now correcled. 



Epidendrum leucochilum Kiotzsch. Rchb. fli. in Bonpl. II. 20. „PaIoma blanca." 

 Barbacoas. Marz. 4000'. Wagener. 



204. EPIDKNDRUM LO.NGIFLORUM Humb. et Kunth. Nov. Gen. et Sp. PI. l. 354. LO. 

 n. 45. Huc Lindl. I. c. 159: 



E. foliis obloijgis oblusis, racemi nutantis peduncuio spatha maxima 

 breviore, sepaiis petalisque lanceolato-linearibus acuminatis margine 

 revolutis, labelli tripartiti laciniis lateralibus ovatis oblique truncatis 

 revolutis: inlerniedia lineari cuneata mucronata margine revoluta duplo 

 longiore, callis 2 lineisque 3 elevalis. 



Wild in New Grenada : on tbe slope of Mount Puruguay , a lofty poini in the Andes 

 near the viliage of Aguacillas, at tlie height of 8880 feet — Humboldt and Bonpland; 

 Popayan , near tlie viliage of Sotara — Hartweg (v. s. sp.) — A most noble plant, 

 wiih yeilow flowers more ilian four inches across. Some of the leaves are about 

 a foot long. 



205. EPIDENDRUM SPECTATISSIMUM Rchb. fli. in Bonpl. III. 68. 



Affinc E. longilloro Hb. B. Klh, callis 2 in basi anlrorsurn rhombeis 

 bidentatis, labelli partitione media lancea acuminata (nec apiculata uti 

 in Epidendro longifloro tantum ex speciminibus Hartwegianis nobis cog- 

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