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IX.—EPIDENDRUM SECUNDUM AND 
E. ELONGATUM. 
R. A. Rorre. 
A good deal of confusion centres round the species known under 
the names of Epidendrum secundum, J acq., and £, elon gatum, 
Jacq., and as the latter has recently been renamed F, sulfura- 
torum, K. H. L. Krause, it seems desirable that the history of 
the two species should be cleared up, especially as some allied 
species are involved in the confusion. 
Epidendrum secundum, Jacq., is a West Indian plant, which 
was briefly characterised in 1760 as “ foliis caulinis oblongis; 
spicis secundis; tubo nectario longitudine corollae.’’ The old 
igure “‘ Plum. Ic. 184, £. 1” is cited, but this, as will be pre- 
sently shown, does not agree with the character given, and 
must be excluded. Somewhat later the plant was fully described 
and figured by Jacquin (Sel. Stirp. Amer. p. 224, ¢. 137), the 
habitat being recorded as mountains of Martinique. Plumier’s 
old figure is again erroneously cited, for it belongs to the species 
next described and figured by J acquin (L. anceps, J acq., l.e. p. 
224, t. 138), a view which is amply confirmed by coloured figures 
he afterwards published. : 
In 1803 a West Indian plant which flowered in the collection 
of E. I. A. Woodford, 
former number was not so distributed, a 
tinguish it from FE. secundum. The latter I have not seen. 
Epidendrum elongatum, Jacq., was described in 1789, being 
based on material collected at Caracas. Jacquin pointed out 
that the plant was near his E. secundum, but that the flowers 
were not secund, and were different in structure. An excellent 
coloured plate afterwards appeared, which, in spite of the sub- 
sequent confusion, leaves no room for doubt as to the plant 
intended. 
In 1845 Lindley described a species under the name of 
Epidendrum Lindenii, basing it upon a plant which flowered 
with Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney. It had been collected by 
- J. Linden. on rocks near Merida, at an altitude of 5000 ft. 
He cited Linden’s field number 636, and remarked, ‘‘ From the 
ticket attached to the dried specimens, we learn that the plant 
appears in the form of three well-marked varieties; in one the 
Owers are of a bright carmine, in another rose-coloured, and in 
