318 ORCHID -grower's manual. 



E. paEiculatum, Ruiz et Pavon. — This is a noble plant, 

 with leafy stems, three or four feet high, in the way of those 

 of E. mijrianthum . The dark gi'een leaves are distichous 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate, often spotted beneath with 

 purple. The flowers are produced from the top of the stem 

 in a dense branched nodding panicle upwards of a foot long, 

 many-branched, and bearing a profusion of lovely rosy lilac 

 fragrant blossoms, which are produced in April, and last a 

 long time in beauty. The sepals are small spathulate ligu- 

 late, the petals almost filiform, and the lip deeply four-lobed. 

 It will succeed in a cool house. — Peru; Bolivia ; New Grenada. 

 FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5731 ; 111 Hort., 3 ser., t. 211. 



E. Parkinsoniamim. — See Epidendrum aloifolium. 



E. plKEniceuni, Lhulley. — A. rather pretty species, with 

 roundish ovate pseudobulbs, a pair of erect narrowly oblong 

 leathery leaves, and a scabrous panicle two to three feet high, 

 bearing good-sized scentless flowers, of which the obovate 

 lanceolate sepals and petals are purple, and the roundish 

 undulated emarginate lip is of a clear bright rose with deep- 

 coloured veins and stains in the centre. It blooms during 

 the summer months. The variety ranillosnnnn , which is the 

 same as E. Grahami, diflers in being vanilla-scented, and in 

 having a white lip spotted with rose. 



Fig.— Ser^. Orch., t. 46; Paxton, Mag. Bot, ix. 97, with tab.; Fl. des 

 Serres, t. 47 ; Id., t. 306 (var. vanillosmum) ; Bot. Mag. t. 3885 (G-rahami). 

 Syn. — E. Gj-ahami. 



E. prismatocarpum, Bchh. f. — A strikingly handsome 

 Orchid, well-marked in character, and deserving of general 

 cultivation. It is robust in habit, and has pyriform slightly 

 furrowed pseudobulbs tapered upwards, and crowned with 

 two or three ligulate evergreen leaves a foot long. The 

 scapes are erect, produced from the top of the pseudobulbs, 

 and each bear a raceme of about fourteen flowers, which 

 have oblong-lanceolate acuminate sepals and petals, pale 

 ereamy yellow with large dark purple blotches, the column 

 of the same creamy yellow, and the narrowly triangular free 

 part of the lip rose colour mai-gined with pale yellow. It 

 blooms in June and July, and will last several weeks in 

 perfection. There are several varieties of this species. — 

 Central America : Chiriqui. 



¥iQ.—Bot. Mag., t. 5336 ; Xe7iia Orch., ii. 1. 123; Wa)-ner, Sel. Orch. PL, 

 i. t. 9 ; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. 109. 



Syn. — E. maculatum ; E. nigromaculatum ; E, Uro-Skinneri. 



