ORCHIDACE^ 33 



EPIDENDRUM FUCATUM 



Epidendrum fucatum, Lindley, Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24 : Misc. 

 15 (1838); Bot. Reg. 28: Misc. 31; Folia Orchidacea, Epi- 

 dendrum 36. — Lindley & Paxton, Paxt. Fl. Gard. 1: 

 150. — Moore, niustr. Orch. PL, Epidendrum 25. — Veitch, 

 Man. Orch. PL, Epidendrum, p. 101. — Grisebach, Cat. PL 

 aih. 262. — Sauvalle, FL Cub. 227. — Linden et aL Orch. 

 Exot. 760. — Lyons, Treat Man. Orch. PL 147 (fls. said to 

 be green and blue!). — Richard, FL Cub. 2: 236; Ic. FL Cub. 

 pi. 76. — Autrun & Durand, Hort. Boissier. 301 (1896). — 

 Keichenbach, f ., in Walj). Ann. 6 : 330. 



" E. fucatum ; pseudobulbis subrotundo-ovatis caespitosis mono- 

 phyllis, foliis ligulatis coriaceis obtusis scapo brevioribus, panicula 

 nutante multiflora, bracteis ovatis acutis squamiformibus, sepalis 

 petalisque lineari-oblongis tessellatis sequalibus obtusis eonniventi- 

 bus, labelli liberi tripartiti lobis lateralibus erectis linearibus apice 

 rotundatis intermedio acuto ovali multo brevioribus, callo sulcato 

 piano elevato basi lobi intermedii." — Lindley, Bot. Reg. 24 : 

 Misc. 15 (1838). 



Pseudobulbs clustered, narrowly or broadly pyriform or rotund, 

 smooth or furrowed, the more recent ones clothed with scarious 

 sheaths, mono- or diphyllous, 1-6 cm. long. Leaves linear-oblong, 

 obtuse or acute, thick, rigid, often stained or suffused with madder- 

 purple, 17-35 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, with margins slightly de- 

 flexed. Peduncle terminal, slender, rigid, 3 dm. or more long. 

 Bracts closely appressed, acute or obtuse, scarious. Inflorescence 

 paniculate, loose or dense. Rhachis smooth. Flowers 2-2.5 cm. 

 across, 3-10 on each branch of the panicle, subtended by minute, 

 scale-like bracts. Pedicel and ovary together 11-22 mm. long. 

 Sepals and petals tawny yellow with deeper colored veins, lip 

 white, becoming yellow with age, mid-lobe streaked along the 



