EPIDENDRUM. 319 



E. pseudepidendrum, Rchb.f. — A very distinct and striking 

 species, producing rather scanty terminal racemes of lovely 

 flowers. It has long reed-like stems two to three feet high, 

 cylindrical with a tumid base, and bearing near the top the 

 distichous linear-oblong acuminate leaves, which are leathery, 

 dark green, and about six inches long. The terminal few- 

 flowered racemes have very slender peduncles and pedicels. 

 The flowers are two and a half inches in diameter, with the 

 narrow spathulate sepals and narrower petals of a bright green, 

 and the lip an inch broad, nearly orbiculate, retuse, with the 

 margin yellowish and serrulate, rich orange-scarlet, the disk 

 traversed by five keels and having a three-lobed callus at the 

 base. The efi'ect of the scarlet lip against the green sepals 

 and petals is charming, and is a combination of colours 

 seldom met with. It was introduced by M. Warscewicz, and 

 flowers in January and February. — Central America : 

 Chiriqui, elevation 4,000 feet. 



¥lG.—Boi. Mag., t. 6929 ; Xenia Orch., i. t. 53. 

 Syn. — Pseudejiidendruni sjiectabile. 



E. radicans, Pavon. — A pretty but shy-flowering evergreen 

 scandent Orchid, the tall erect leafy stems often reaching 

 ten feet in height. The distichous leaves are ovate oblong 

 subcordate and partially sheathing. The bright orange- 

 scarlet flowers are produced in corymbiform racemes on 

 the leafless scaly terminal growths, the sepals and petals 

 being acutely lanceolate, and the lip three-lobed, with the 

 side lobes toothed, and the cuneate biparted front lobe deeply 

 laciniate ; the same spike will keep in beauty for three 

 months. It is best grown in a pot in peat, with good 

 drainage. When the plant becomes tall it should be trained 

 round some sticks, which is the best way to make it flower. 

 We have known Mr. Woolley, of Cheshunt, to have the same 

 plant in flower for twelve months at a time. — Mexico; 

 Guatemala. 



Fig. — Paxton, Mag. Bot., xii. 145, with tab.; Orchid Album, iv. t. 161. 

 Syn. — E, rhizophorum, 



E, Sceptrum, Lindley. — A very old and pretty species, but 

 very rare in cultivation. It is quite distinct in growth, 

 having compressed pear-shaped pseudobulbs a foot long, long 

 thin remote lorate leaves, and erect racemes one to two feet 

 long, bearing very numerous flowers, as many as three dozen 

 sometimes being collected in one raceme, the peduncle of which 



