EPIDENDRUM- 



ORCHIDES. 383 



Wild in Guatemala; on trees in cool cliniate — Skinner (v. v. c). — One of llie 

 raost beautiful of ils race. Flowers iarge , deep rose - colour , in long racemes. It 

 is difficult to cultivate. Mr. Skinner says tiial ii inhabits a middling temperature , and 

 will ihrive besl in a climate graduated from 56° to 70". He directs us not to put it 

 in earth , but to permii it to have free scope for ihe young roots and sbools , which 

 it, when wild , ihrows out in August. E. Fuchsii is certainly a starved staie of this 

 common and well - known piant. 



Epidendrum Fuchsii Regel. Rchb. QI. in v. IVJohl et v. Sc|ilechtdl. D. Z. 1842. 672. 

 Nach einer erhaltenen Orii^iualabbildung nichts als Epidendrum Skinneri Lindl., zwar 

 eine alle Gartenpdanze , aber kein Euepidendrtim, sondern eiu Amphigloitium. 



250. EPIUEiNDRUM COSTATUM Richard and Galeolti Orch. Mex. 22. Huc : Lindl. 

 I. c. 197.: 



E. caule compresso crasso vaginis maculatis, apice folioso, foliis ob- 

 longis subundulalis acutis panicula cernua bispalhacea brevioribus. brac- 

 teis spathaceis costatis pedicellis brevioribus, sepalis lanceolatis apice 

 involutis, pelalis angustioribus incurvis , labello transverso rotundato 

 dentato emarginalo basi bicalloso venis radianlibus, clinandrio integro. 



Wild in Mexico — Galeotti Loddiges (v. v. c). — Flowers rich crimson , as large as 



in E. nulans. 



251. EPIDEiNDRUM FILICAULE LO. n, 23. Huc: Lindl. I. c 198.: 



E. caule gracili rainosissimo, foliis linearibus acutis, sepalis cuneato 

 oblougis pelabsque tllilormibus palentibus, labello subrotundo cordato 

 retuso repando, spicis terminalibus 3-floris, rachi capillari bracteis 

 spathaceis paucis membranaceis. 



Wild ia Brazil — Prescotl ; branches of trees , Pedra Bonita Tejuca — Gardner 242 

 (v. s. sp.). — A branched reed - like plant. Flowers small, in little tliree- to - four- 

 flowered racemes, half hidden amoiig the grassy leaves. 



252. EPIDEiNDRUM SELLOWII H. G. Reichenbach in Linuaea XXII. p. 839. Huc: Lindi. 

 I. c. 199. : 



E. pedunculo brevi squamato, squamis vaginanlibus subacutis, brac- 

 teis subaequalibus, ovariis pedicellatis longioribus, florum (3) sepalis 

 oblongis acutis, petalis anguslioribus, labello cordato acuto basi bica- 

 rinato. 



Wild In Brazil — Sellow. (Rchb.). — ..Stems erect , leafy, Leaves longish, rounded 

 Dt the point." 



253. EPIDEiNDRUM GALEOTTIANUM Richard and Galeotti , Orch. Mex. p. 21. Huc; 

 Lindl. I. c. 200. ; ' 



„E caule simplici, foliis ellipticis obtusis carnosis, racemo simplici 

 terminali, flonbus parvulis purpureis. labello adnato cordiformi sub- 

 obtuso. 



Wild in Mexico — Galcotti. 



254. EPIDENDRUM HEMISCLERIA Rchb. fll. Huc: Hemiscleria Lindl. Folia l. fasc. 4.: 

 Sepala erecta, coriacea, concava , aequalia. Petala conformia, mem- 



branacea, Labellum dependens. concavum, lineare, sessile, coriaceum, 

 sepalis longius , basi c. coluinna conlinuum ; lineis 3 rectis elevalis. 

 Columna nana, semiteres, basi juxla labellum utrinque auriculatum; 

 clinandrium membrana marginatuin. Stigma fovea circularis. Pollinia 

 4, ovalia, aequalia; caudiculis 2 pulvereis replicatis in unam connatis; 

 glandula 0. Anthera 4-locuIaris, carnosa, loculis membranaceo-margi- 

 natis. 



Herba epiphyla Amcricae tropicae , caulesceiis. Folia coriacea, dislicha. Corymbus 

 lerminalis , peduncuialus. Flores coriacei , semiclausi. 



