a small bract. Ovary long, curved. SEPALS and PerTats all similar 
and equal, spreading, lanceolate, pointed, narrowed at the base, above 
half an inch, or nearly three-quarters in length, of a rich scarlet. 
LaBELLuUM borne on a claw which is connate with the column, into a 
club-shaped scarlet tube with a yellow orifice, rather shorter than the 
petals; the limb broadly orbicular, more or less deeply divided into 
three broad obovate, cuneate lobes, irregularly fringed on the margin; 
at the base are two projecting calli, and between them a projecting 
longitudinal line. 
PoputaR AND GeocrapHicaL Notice, The genus Epidendrum 
which, in the days of Linneus and his immediate successors, was the 
common receptacle for nearly all tropical Orchidaceous Epiphytes 
known at that time, was first reduced to its natural limits by Brown, 
and, as adopted by Lindley, it remains at once a well-defined and a 
very numerous genus; probably the most numerous in America, to 
which hemisphere it is strictly confined. Every collection from the 
hotter parts of that country furnishes some new species, and the 
seventy-one enumerated by Lindley, in 1831, are, perhaps, now nearly 
doubled. The one here figured, one of the finest of the genus, chiefly 
from the richness of its colour, was discovered at the foot of the 
mountain Attarypon, near the Rupunoony, in British Guiana, by 
M. Schomburgk, who in a letter to Dr. Lindley, quoted in the Botani- 
cal Register, states that he found it growing, in company with Coryan- 
thes on a tree on the banks of the river, exposed to full light. The 
description made in the same work, taken from dried specimens and 
from a drawing of M. Schomburgk’s, and the anticipations as to its 
beauty, have been fully confirmed now that the plant has flowered in 
our stoves, G. B.- 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This was drawn from 
plants sent over to this country to the Messrs. Loddiges, in whose 
epiphyte house it flowered in great perfection last spring. Its culture 
would be the same as mentioned under No. 116. 
DERIVATION OF THE NaMES 
Eprpenprom, from ez: EPI, upon, and devdpoy DENDRON, a tree, in allusion to 
the mode of growth of this sort of plants. Scsomsurextt, in honour of 
M. Schomburgk. 
SyNoNYME. 
EpmpenDRuM Scnompurcxit. Lindley: Botanical Register. 1838, p. 15, t, 53. _ 
