536 EPIMEDU 



A. Spurs conspicuous, oflm 1 ;, 

 as long as the sln<ii-ii 

 macT&nthum, Morr. & I).- in ■. 

 ternate ; leaflets corduti-'A aii- 

 sharply toothed; petiolt"^ \\itl 

 spicuous hairs : outer se|i:iU >< 

 red, remaining after the huvr. r . 

 fl. have fallen: inner srpal- i 

 spurs white. Japan. B.K. 'I'l: 

 Gn. 40:984, which is E. pinnni 



[E. nlveum, Hort.), has pure white fls. Var. roseum, 

 Voss {E. rbseum, Hort. E. nlveum, var. rbsemn, Hort. ), 

 has fls. white, tinged with pink or pale rosy red. Var. 

 violioeum, Voss (E. violAeeum, Morr. & Decne.), has 

 violet spurs, shorter than in E. macranthum, but much 

 larger than in the other species. B.M. 3751. B.E. 

 26:43. P.M. 4:123. -A very interesting species. 



EPIPHYLLUM 



sometimes twice 

 ■ P'tls. 



lit. Lvs. thrice 

 :t\ .It the base, 

 v|preading, con- 

 - colored bright 

 .1 i.r parts of the 

 iK.-olate, violet: 

 '.M. 5:151. Not 

 nlveum, Voss 



Spu 



edium-si. 



lo.uj 



the 



B. Inner septtis bright red. 



alplnum, var. rdbrum, Hook. (E. riibrum, Morren). 

 Pig. 764. Lvs. biternate (but Hooker's picture shows a 

 tendency to the thrice ternate condition), minutely 

 toothed : spurs white, marked with red, as in Fig. 764, 

 which shows the very distinct appearance of the flower. 

 Japan. B.M. 5671. R.B. 3, p. 33, t. 6 (1853). Hooker 

 says thi.s differs in no way from E. alpinnm, except in 

 the larger and red fls., while the type which grows wild 

 in England (though probably not native) has dull red- 

 dish yellow fls., and, though advertised, is probably not 

 in cultivation. 



BB. Inner sepals ivhitish or pale yelloir. 



MusBohiinum, Morr. & Depne. I.r-. "tiIv owv ter- 

 nate, sharply toothed, as in E. mar,' ". ,. .n iloi-al 

 parts whitish or pale yellow. Jaiin i ■ The 



least showy kind, but worth growing ::. ; li 'ii. its 

 spurs having an individuality dilliuuli lu ■.{•■zeru v. Var. 

 riibrum, of Pitcher & Manda's catalogue, is prt-sum- 

 ably an error, as a red-fld. form would be very unex- 

 pected. 



AAA. Spurs much shorter than the inner sepals, being, 

 in fact, mereh/ sm.ill ii.ri,, r-./hnids. 



pinn^tum, Fisch. Fig. 7iU. Lvs. usually biternate, 

 with 5 leaflets, 3 above and 1 on each .-iide; leaflets with 

 a deeper and narrower basal cut than in E. macranthum: 

 fls. typically bright yellow; nectaries red, a third or 

 fourth as long as the inner sepals. Shady mountain 

 woods of Persia and Caucasus. B.M. 4456. Gn. 46:984, 

 erroneously as E. macranthum. Gn. 48, p. 486. 



Var. 61egans, Hort., presumably has larger, brighter 

 and more numerous fls. E. sulphureum of European 

 catalogues is regarded by J. W. Manning and J. B. 

 Keller as a pale yellow-fld. form of E. pinnatum, but 

 by Voss as a variety of E. macranthum. A yellow 

 form of the violet-fld. E. macranthum would be very 

 surprising. 



Var. Colcliicum, Hort. {E. C6lchicum, Hort.), has 

 brilliant golden yellow fls. and nectaries 1-1>^ lines long. 



BB. I/vs. always once ternate. 



FerraldeTii.iium, Cosson. This is the African repre- 

 sentative of E. pinnatum, from which it differs in the 

 key characters and also in the much more strongly cili- 

 ate-toothed leaflets. Its flowers are a "paler yellow than 

 tlio ty|.ic:il A', jiinnatum. It is far from improbable that 



s|H ( i' 11^ roiiuecting them will be found in southern 



F,un.|„. ,r „ot in Africa." Algeria.'* B.M. 6509.-Lvs. 

 rt'iiiaiu all winter. Less desirable than E. pinnatum. 



E. diphiillum, Lodd. See Aceranthus diphyllus.— £. nfceum 

 is catalogued by Van Tubergen as a synonym of Musschianum, 

 but the chances are that all the plants .idvertised as E. nivenm 

 are E. macranthum, var. nivenm. The spurs are so obviously 

 longer in E. macranthum that there is no excuse for confusion. 

 W. M. 



EPIPAtTIS (Greek, epipegnuo; it coagulates milk). 

 OrchidAcew. Hardy terrestrial orchids of minor value. 

 The first mentioned may be obtained through dealers in 



native western and Jai 

 in the American cdiii 

 orchids with creeping' i 

 lvs. ovate or lanceohitt 

 brown, nearly white 



ts; the second is listed 

 utch catalogue. Leafy 

 iTi'l uubranched stems: 

 1.(1 veins: fls. purplish 

 .1; lower bracts often 



longerthan the fls. ; sepals free, spreading.nearly as large 

 as the petals; lip free, deeply concave at base, without 

 callosities, narrowly constricted and somewhat jointed 

 in the middle, the upper portion dilated, pctaloid. 



Eoyle4na, Lindl. (A'. ," '" , T. .:ijl, . S;.,ut. 1-4 ft. 



high: lvs. from ovatr i. ImIc above, 



3-8 in. long: fls. :i- 1' . immI with 



purple. June, July, w :i n. i^ ^n.i;! li f^rasttoS. 



Utah and W.Tex., ;>iil.ai,kr,oi.sUvaiu:.. Al-o Himalayas. 

 Int. by Pringle and Hursford, 1SS3. JIu. 8:145. 



atrdrubens, Schult. ((£. nibigindsa, Crantzl. Lvs. 

 often reddish : fls. and ovary dark purple ; lip oval, 

 acute, or slightly notched: bracts equaling the fls. or 

 rarely longer. Jiily-Sep. Eu.. W.Asia. 



EPIPHRONiTIS is a bigoniric orchid hybrid of Epi- 

 dendrum and Sophrouitis, fur a charming picture of 

 which see R.H. 1896:476. It has about 10 fls., chiefly a 

 brilliant scarlet, set off with bright yellow. Gt. 46, p. 

 555. 



EPIPHtLLUM {on a leaf: v f. n;,,- : . iIi- leaf-like 

 branches on which the fls. ^ ' -' . Ckab 



Cactus. This genus isconjii r -o far as 



known, where the plants gmi' '- >; i^^ npon the 



trees, along with orchids. trn.M hik in km,'' . lusiers on 

 the branches: stems flat and juiuted, becoming rounded 



/m 



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' I 



if 



V 



765. Epiphyllum truncatum. 



with ago, hearing areol.-p only on the margins and more 

 or less truncated ends, from which grow the new 

 branches and fls.: fls. more or less conspicuously 

 zygomorphous : ovary devoid of bracts, and those of 

 the tube conii)arativi.|v large and colored as tlir prtals. 

 The genus i. rl.,-, N Mli-.I i- n,;, II -.-i-'Im-, :,i:.;, ii,,li . .1, 

 the last t\\.' I ' i' I ■ ' '• • .' ' ■ lo 



that genus, i ■ : • : lo- 



duced throiiL'ii ii\ io'.m i,-:j. i-n i.i'i .-, '■•■ii i, i , ■ i,i -|i.-- 



cies and with l'li.\ llucaclu., an. I Cir^n.^. so iL.a lyi.jcal 

 plants are rarely met with. c. H. Thompson. 



Epiphyllums are among the most useful as decorative 

 plants of all the Cactaceffi. Their brilliant colored blos- 

 soms, together with the profusion with which they are 

 usually borne, makes them worthy of a place in every 

 collection of plants. They are propagated by cuttings, 

 which root readily when inserted in an ordinary propa- 

 gating bed. Being low-growin? or pendent-habited 

 plants, they are very useful snl.j.-.-ts for hanging 

 baskets. I.,ike most of the Ca.tu^ imiily. they may be 

 grafted readily upon other Ca.ti. Wli. n lt.iwu as pot- 

 plants, they are often grafted to elevate them above 



