EPIDENDKUM. 



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time in perfection. There are two varieties of this plant, one 

 having much brighter coloured flowers than the other ; the 

 best form is characterised by having longer and thinner bulbs 

 than the other. 



¥iG.—Bafem. Orch. Mex. et Guat., t. 11 ; Khtzsch, in L. K. 4- 0., Ic. PI. 

 Ear. BeroL, t. 45 ; Bot. Jfacf., t. 4759 (pictum) ; Lem. Jard. FL, t. 251 

 (pictum). 



Syn. — E. basUare ; E. cycnostalix — fide Rchb. 



E. syringOtliyrsilS, llchh. /'. — A tall-growing and extremely 

 handsome cool house species, the moderately slender tufted 

 stems of which attain a height of three to four feet, and are 

 clothed with distichous sheathing elliptic-lanceolate recurved 

 leathery leaves, which are about six inches long, and of a 

 light green colour. The flowers are produced in dense ovoid 

 racemes, which bear from seventy to eighty flowers on long 

 slender pedicels, which are of a reddish purple like the flowers, 

 the sepals and petals being small elliptic-lanceolate, and the 

 small three-lobed lip white on the disk with three tumid 

 yellow calli, and of the same reddish purple as the rest of the 

 flower in front. — Bolivia, elevation 7,000 — 8,000 feet. 



7iG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6145. 



Et TitelliEUlIL, Lindleij. — A beautiful dwarf-growing plant, 

 one of the most brilliant of the family, and one which is very 

 distinct in character. The pseudobulbs are ovate acuminate, 

 and bear two oblong-ligulate acute glaucous leaves, and erect 

 many-flowered racemes of brilliant vermilion-orange blossoms, 

 of which the sepals and petals are ovate-lanceolate, and the 

 lip linear-acuminate and together with the column of a bright 

 yellow colour. It blossoms during the autumn months, and 

 lasts six weeks or more in good condition. This is best 

 grown in the Mexican house, as it delights in an abundance 

 of light ; but it will also do well with the Odontoglots in the 

 cool house, and requires plenty of moisture at the roots. — 

 Mexico ; Guatemala, on cloud-ca'pped mountains amidst con- 

 tinual mists. 



Fig.— Serium Orch., t. 45 ; Bot. Reg., 1840, t. 35 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4107 ; 

 Moore, III. Orch. PL, Epidendrum, t. 1 ; Paxt. Mag. Bot , v. 49, with tab. ; 

 Fl. des Serres, t. 1026 ; III. Hort., t. 4 ; Otto cf Deit., Allg. Gartenz., 1855, 

 t. 9. 



E. Titellinum majUS, Hart. — This beautiful variety is of the 

 same colour as the typical E. vitellinum, the only difference 

 being in the size of the flowers, which are considerably larger, 



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