HORTUS VEITCHII 



in 1870. The specific name, from crinis, " a lock of hair," and ferre, " to 

 bear," relates to the hair-like side lobes of the lip. 



EPIDENDEUM LINDLEYANUM, Bchb. /., var. CENTERS. 



Syns. Barkeria Lindleyana Centerae, Rchb. 



Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vi. p. 105 ; Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 1597 ; The Garden, 1885, 



vol. xxvii. p. 396, pi. 490. 



Introduced from Costa Eica through Endres in 1873, and dedicated to 

 Mrs. Center, wife of the then superintendent of the Panama Eailway. 



The flowers are larger than those of the type, purplish-lilac in colour, 

 with a number of large blotches about the column. 



EPIDENDEUM PHYSODES, Bchb. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 289. 



Sent from Costa Eica by Zahn. 



A small-flowered species with whitish-brown flowers, of botanical 

 interest only, and apparently not now cultivated. 



EPIDENDEUM PSEUDEPIDENDEUM, Bchb. f. 



Rchb. Xen. Orch. i. p. 160, t. 53 ; Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 763 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5929; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vi. p. 113, figs. 



Specimens of this species were orginally collected by Warscewicz, who 

 presented them to Professor Eeichenbach, and from this material the 

 description and plate in the Xenia were prepared. For twenty years no 

 more was heard of the plant till Zahn sent home specimens, which flowered 

 for the first time at Chelsea, in July 1871. 



The colouring of the flowers is peculiar, the sepals and petals being 

 bright frog-green, and the labellum bright scarlet. 



EPIDENDEUM SYEINGOTHYESIS, Bchb. /. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6145 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PL pt. vi. p. 121. 



Introduced to Chelsea by Pearce in 1868, and flowered for the first time 

 in May of the following year. It is a native of Bolivia, and had previously 

 been gathered in the neighbourhood of Sorata, and also in the Andean 

 valley of Challasuya by Man don, who sent specimens to Professor 

 Eeichenbach. 



The great size of the dense-flowered raceme, and its general resemblance 

 in form and colour to the Lilac, suggested the specific name. 



EPIDENDEUM THEOMBODES, Bchb. f. 



Linnea, xli. p. 79; Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. xx. p. 606 (W. B. Hemsley's List of 



Garden Orchids). 



A species allied to Epidendrum aromaticum with yellow flowers 



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