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EPIDENDRUM TAMPENSE 



Epidendrum tampense, Lindley, Edioards' s Bot. Reg. 33, sub t. 

 35 (1847) ; Folia Orchidacea, Epidendrum 34. — Rolfe, Gard. 

 Chr. ser. 3, 4: 150 (1888). — Britton, TV. N. F. Acad. 9: 13 

 (1889). — Trelease, Bej). Mo. Bot. Gard. 9: 137, t. 38(1898). 

 — Veitch, Mail. Orch. PL, Epidendrum, p. 121. — Chapman, 

 Fl. S. U. S. ed. 3, 480. — Hansen in Cyd. Am. Hort. (Bailey) 

 2 : 534. — SmaU, Fl. Se. U. S. 327. — Ames, Contr. Orch. Fl. 

 Fla. 16. 



Epidendrum venosum, Chapman, Fl. S. U. S. ed. 1, 455 (1860), 

 not Lindley. 



" E. tampense (Encyclium) ; pseudobulbis anguste ovatis acumi- 

 natis teretibus, f oliis linearibus apiculatis panicula racemosa sparsa 

 duplo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongo-linearibus acutis, la- 

 belli tripartiti laciniis lateralibus linearibus obtusis intermedia basi 

 obscure 3-nervia oblonga acuta paulo longiore." — Lindley, Bot. 

 Beg. 33, sub. t. 35 (1847). 



Pseudobulbs clustered, 2-7 cm. or more long, clothed with 

 scarious bracts, smooth or rugose, rounded or pyriform, terete, 

 gi'een, often suffused with madder-purple, shining or glossy, mono- 

 or diphyllous. Leaves linear, or linear-oblong, mostly rigid, acute 

 or sub-acute, straight or slightly twisted, recurved, 8 mm. -2 cm. 

 wide, 9-30 cm. or more long. Peduncle terminal, slender, rough 

 with scattered warts or smoothish, terminated by a loose few 

 to many-flowered raceme or panicle. Bracts closely appressed. 

 Flowers fleshy, 30-38 mm. across. Sepals all similar, oblong, nar- 

 rowed toward the base, or obscurely spatulate, sub-acute, 6-7 mm. 

 wide, about 19 mm. long, broader than the petals. Petals about 

 17 mm. long, 7 mm. broad above, spatulate. Lip 15 mm. long, 

 3-lobed; the lateral lobes directed obliquely forward, 9 mm. long 



