EPIDENDRUM RADICANS. Native of Guatemala. 
This is one of the parents of the hybrid E. Boundii, so popular as a garden plant 
in Brisbane. Stems very long and thin, reaching a height of over ten feet, using 
its long, white, adventitious roots to hold it to a tree or other convenient support. 
Leaves are in two opposite rows along the stem. They are from 3 to § inches 
long and about 3 inch wide, fleshy in texture and shining green in colour. Flowers 
are produced in large terminal panicles. Sepals and petals bright orange-scarlet, 
lip cross-shaped, deep yellow edged with scarlet. It likes warm, moist, sunny 
conditions. Flowers in Spring and Summer, the individual blooms being produced 
in succession, the plant making a brave show for 8 or 9 weeks. 
Syn. E. rhizophorum. 
EPIDENDRUM STAMFORDIANUM. Native of Brazil. 
A beautiful species, with stout, long pseudobulbs tapering at top and bottom, 
having three or four stout, thick, leathery leaves at the apex, each § or 6 inches 
long and 14 to 2 inches broad. The flower spikes spring from the base of the 
pseudobulbs and carry a large number of good-sized flowers, greenish-yellow in 
colour, spotted and blotched with pink. The flowers are fragrant. 
Treat as for Cattleyas. Water moderately at all times, and sparingly in the 
Winter. A position where it will get the morning sun is particularly suitable. 
EPIDENDRUM VITELLINUM. Native of Mexico. 
A brilliant species with short, egg-shaped, glossy green pseudobulbs, topped with 
two (sometimes three) glossy green, oblong, acute leaves. The racemes, which are 
erect and many flowered, reach a length of about 18 inches, and carry a num- 
ber of large, fleshy flowers with sepals and petals orange-scarlet, the pointed lip 
being bright yellow. Flowers in Summer and lasts 8 weeks. It likes sunlight and 
cool conditions. 
Variety majus. Much larger than the type. 
. (Occasionally this plant is imported and sold as Zygopetalum Mackayi—Var. 
majus, although it bears very little resemblance to the Zygopetalums. | 
EPIDENDRUM WALLISII. Native of Colombia, 
A lovely species, with tall leafy stems up to about 4 feet high, having raised spots 
of brownish-purple, and clothed with two rows of fleshy, green, four-inch leaves. 
Flowers are produced from the apex and from the axils of the leaves in the upper 
part of the stems, and are borne on drooping racemes. . The blossoms are numerous 
and up to 2 inches across. Sepals and petals are strap-shaped, yellow spotted with 
crimson. The fan-shaped lip is large, white with feathery crimson lines. Flowers 
are musk scented. Blooms in Autumn and lasts for some months. Likes warm, 
moist, sunny conditions with plenty of water all through the year. 
There are many hybrids, the two best known to us being Boundii and O’Brien- 
ianum. Another excellent hybrid is E. Endresio-Weallisii. 
Epidendrums have also been crossed with Cattleyas, Laelias, Sophronitis, Cal- 
anthes and Zygopetalums. 
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