[Plate 30.] 
THE LONG-PETALED EPIDENDRUM. 
(EPIDENDRUM LONGIPETALUM.) 
A Stove Epiphyte, from Guatemala, belonging to the Natural Order of Orchids. 
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THE LONG-PETALED EPIDENDRUM. — Pseudobulbs 
ovate. Leaves in pairs, straight, sword-shaped, blunt. 
Panicle loose, much longer than the leaves. Sepals and 
petals alike in form, spathulate, stalked, blunt. Lip poste- 
rior, free, three-lobed ; the stalk callous and concave, the 
segments rounded, those at the side erect, that in the 
middle convex, much larger, notched at the end, wavy, 
with numerous elevated coloured radiating veins. 
foliis 
]TMVM ; pteudobulhifl 
btusis, panicdfc hutft mu 
►nforraibus spathulatis ui 
latis obtusis, labelli |- W liberi trilobi ungue concavo 
calloso laciniis rotundatis lateraiihus eredb tatermed.o 
convexomultomajoreemarginato muhihto veni* pluribus 
elevatis coloratis radiantibus. 
Epidendrum aromaticum, van *f*me kns. 
T 
lat time 
had been studied only, and very imperfectly, upon dried specimens 
Lately 
- 
Horticultural Society and Mr. Skinn 
opportuniti 
Among 
he 
and only then. 
aromaticum 
ome resemblance when ill dried, 
all 
with 
green Epidendrum (R virens), whose sepals and petals 
green lip, the three 
0, with a long straggling pamelc of dull brown 
beautifully marked b, straight eri,u,.n vcms on a 
.green petals relieved by a white lip, beautifully marked t>y mw» »-»"- < „ fc , 
It i. a na,ive of ( buteuralo, whence the Horticultural Society obtan.cu ,., and rc-pure. all 
