Pseudobulbs are ovate (sometimes pear-shaped), with a pair of dark green, narrow, 
leathery leaves. The long spike grows from the top of the pseudobulb and bears 
a number of large flowers. Sepals and petals are oblong and spreading, greenish 
at the base and dark brown to the top. Lip is large, spreading and three-lobed, 
pure white in colour with a leathery-like blotch of reddish-purple at the base. 
Flowers in late Spring and early Summer, the blooms lasting for about five weeks. 
Variety roseum—has purplish sepals and petals, and a dark rosy-pink labellum. 
EPIDENDRUM CATILLUS. Native of Colombia. 
One of the reedy type of long leafy stems, the leaves being fleshy, oblong, and 
acute. The flowers are produced in terminal racemes and appear in many flowered 
cymes, the pedicels and ovaries being scarlet. The sepals and petals, which are 
narrow, lanceolate and pointed, are deep reddish-gold in colour, the sepals being 
glossy. The lip is vermilion, the middle lobe being bifid, and the ends toothed. 
In general it resembles the form of E. Boundii. Flowers in Winter and early 
Spring. Flowers last a month. 
EPIDENDRUM CILIARE. Native of Tropical America. 
A fragrant species of the Cattleya type, the stems of which closely resemble those 
of Cattleya Mossiae, in mistake for which it is sometimes sold. Leaves appear in 
pairs at the top of the stems and are oblong and rounded in shape and leathery in 
texture. Flower scapes, about six inches long, grow from the apex between 
the leaves, and carry from three to six large flowers (about 5 inches across). 
These vary considerably in colour from a creamy white through various tones 
to a greenish tinged yellow. The white lip is three-lobed, the middle one being 
long and pointed, while the laterals are deeply fringed. Flowers in Winter, and 
lasts about 6 weeks. The blooms are delightfully fragrant. 
Variety crispidatum. Flowers larger and brighter yellow in colour, while the 
middle lobe is only slightly longer than the lateral lobes. 
EPIDENDRUM CINNABARINUM. Native of Brazil. 
One of the reed-like stemmed species, the leafy stems reaching a height of more 
than four feet, clothed for the greater part with oblong slightly veined leaves in 
pairs. The racemes spring from the apex and carry a large number of brilliant 
scarlet flowers with a handsome orange-yellow, red-spotted trilobed lip. This 
species is found in the sandy thickets near the coast at Bahia, in Brazil, and on 
sandstone rocks near Villa Rico in the Rio Grande. It will do quite well grown 
under the same conditions as the hybrids Boundii and O’Brienianum (which it 
resembles). Flowers in the Winter time, the corymbiform sprays of bloom mak- 
ing a brilliant show with their succession of opening flowers for two or three 
months. 
EPIDENDRUM COCHLEATUM. Central America and West Indies, etc. 
A very interesting species with flattened oval, deep green pseudobulbs topped 
with two broad, oblong, acute, deep green leaves with slightly undulated edges. 
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