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middle with magenta-purple, side-lobes with several similarly 

 colored veins which fork near the tips. Sepals all alike, narrowly 

 spatulate, thickened near the tips, 10-15 mm. long, 3 mm. wide. 

 Petals sub-similar, shghtly shorter. Lip 3-lobed, about 1 cm. long. 

 Lateral lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, enclosing the column, 6 mm. 

 long ; mid-lobe various, oblong-elliptic and acute to wedge-obovate 

 and obtuse, or apiculate ; between the lateral lobes a whitish, pur- 

 ple-marked, smooth, channelled, longitudinal callus, narrowly oval 

 in outline, longer than the column. Column 5 mm. long, exalate, 

 triangular in cross-section, streaked dorsally with dull purple. 

 Anther orange-yellow. Pollinia 4. 



According to the account which accompanies the original de- 

 scription of this species, Uj^idendrum fucatum was first imported 

 from Havana to England by Captain Sutton in 1835. The species 

 was cultivated in the collection of Sir Charles Lemon at Carclew, 

 where it flowered in 1837. In 1838 Dr. Lindley described the 

 plant, alluding by the specific name fucatum to the brownish 

 reticulations on the petals of his specimen. 



This species has a wide range of distribution in Cuba, where it 

 grows under various conditions. Most of my specimens were col- 

 lected from Royal Palms and Eriodendron trees, both in shaded 

 and in exposed situations, sometimes in open savannahs, sometimes 

 in densely wooded places near streams of water. The vegetative 

 parts are quite similar to those of Epidendrum tampense, Lindl., 

 and exhibit the same remarkable variability. The pseudobulbs 

 range from " about the size of a large marble," as described by Mr. 

 Booth in his account of the species (Botanical Register, loc. cit.), 

 to that of a hen's egg. The panicles may be either loose or dense, 

 the flowers may be few or many, and either strongly or faintly 

 odorous. The species is nearly allied to U. odoratissimum, Lindl., 

 from which it is readily distinguished by its white and magenta 

 lip. From JEJ. tampense it differs in its smaller flowers and in the 

 callus of its lip, which is not 3-lobed at the apex. In Cuba it is a 

 common plant, and in this respect parallels U. tampense, which in 

 southern Florida is so plentiful. 



