EPIDENDRUM 85 



On trees; in fl. July-Dec; Shepherd in Herb. Kew! — Porto Rico, 

 S. Thomas, Tortola, St. Cruz, St. Martin, St. Bartholomew, Saba, 

 St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, 

 St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Bequia, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad, Venezuela, 

 B. Guiana, French Guiana, Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala, Costa Rica, 

 Mexico, B. Honduras. 



Plant IJ ft. high and more. Pseudobulbs 1-2 dm. 1. Leaves leathery, 

 oblong-ligulate to elliptical-oblong, obtuse, 1-2 dm. 1., 2 -5-4 -5 cm. br. 

 Raceme with few or many flowers above, as long as the leaves, sometimes 

 longer, clothed below with compressed keeled sterile bracts (2 '5-5 cm. 1.). 

 Bracts, floral large, spreading, broadly lanceolate, acute, 2 5-5 cm. i. 

 Pedicels about 1 cm. 1. Floivers large, sweet-smelling, pale yellowish- 

 green with white lip. Sepals narrowly linear-lanceolate, long acuminate, 

 many-nerved, 4-5 "5 cm. 1., 3-5 mm. br. Petals like the sepals but 

 slightly smaller, and somewhat falcate. Lip, lateral lobes 1-2 cm. 1., 

 2-3 mm. br., median lobe 3-3*5 cm. 1. Column white, dilated above, 

 13-15 mm. 1. Capsule oblong-spindle-shaped, 4-5 cm. 1., 1*5-2 cm. br. ; 

 beak 2-2*5 cm. 1. 



The sole authority for including this species rests on a specimen from 

 Shepherd "from Jamaica" in the Kew Herbarium. If truly native, it is 

 remarkable that so striking a plant should have escaped the notice of so 

 many collectors from Swartz onwards. 



2. E. fragrrans Sw. Prodr. 123 (1788) ; pseudobulb spindle- 

 shaped or ovoid-lanceolate, 1 -leaved ; lip creamy- white with 

 purple lines, on upper side of flower, undivided, ovate-roundish, 

 acuminate ; column connate with lip beyond the middle. — Sw. 

 Fl Ind. Occ. 1487 & Ic. ined. t. 46 ; Andrews Bot. Bep. x. t. 645 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1669; Lindl Fol. Orch. Epid. 39; Griseh. op. cit. 

 615 ; Cogn. op. cit. 83 & in Symh. Ant. iv. 174 ; Salish. Ic. ined. vi. 



fol. 575. 



On trees and rocks ; in fl. all the year ; Swartz ! Bertero, Distin ! 

 Lane ! Fairfield, Wullschlaegel, 1066 1 Moneague, Prior I J.P. 11, Morris ! 

 Ramble, Hanover ; Bath ; Fawcett 1 Silver Hill, 4000 ft. ; Dolphin Head, 

 1600 ft. ; Han-is ! near Radnor, Miss B. Gosset 1 Fl. Jam. 7859, 10,441.— 

 Cuba, Florida, Hispaniola, Dominica, Martiiiique, St. Vincent, Grenada, 

 Trinidad, Venezuela, B. Guiana, Surinam, Brazil, Panama, Colombia, 

 Ecuador, Nicaragua, Guatemala. 



Plant 12-18 in. high. Pseudobulb 6-13 cm. 1., with a few, rather large 

 scarious sheaths, soon decaying. Leaves leathery, ligulate-oblong, obtuse, 

 2-3-5 dm. 1., 2-4 cm. br. Raceme 6-10 cm. 1., with few or several flowers, 

 much shorter than the leaf ; spathe at base broadly ovate, compressed, about 

 4 cm. 1. (3-6). Bracts minute, triangular or triangular-lanceolate, acute 

 or shortly acuminate, 3-6 mm. 1. Flowers fragrant, shortly stalked, 

 perianth 1 in. or more 1. Sepals lanceolate, long-acuminate, 5-7 nerved, 

 yellowish-white with greenish tint outside, 25-35 mm. 1., 3*5-5 mm. br. 

 Petals oval-lanceolate, long acuminate, 7-nerved, yellowish-white, 22- 

 28 mm. 1., 7-10 mm. br. Lip 11-13-nerved, 16-18 mm. 1. (to junction 

 with column), 10-13 mm. br. Column greenish-white, short, 5-8 mm. 1., 

 thicker above, at the apex three obtuse lobes with a long tooth on the 

 inner side of the median lobe ; anther indistinctly 2-lobed above. Capsule 

 ellipsoidal, 2*5-3 cm. 1. 



3. E. eochleatum L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1351 (1763), excl syn. 

 Shane ; pseudobulb with one to three small joints at base and 

 apex, ovoid-lanceolate or cylindrical, with two or sometimes 



