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be cultivated in the same house and under the same conditions as the 

 Mexican Laelias. 'No cultivator need be under any apprehensions of 

 failure from adopting the sectional divisions as a basis for cultural 

 purposes as here suggested ; the classification of the Epidendra sketched 

 above is so simple that no one of ordinary intelligence would scarcely 

 fail to assign to any species brought before him, its correct sectional place. 

 As we have given the cultural treatment of the Cattleyas and Laelias 

 in detail under their respective headings, those details need not be 

 repeated here. 



Epidendrum alatum. 



Encyclium. Pseudo-bulbs pyriform, 3 — 4 inches long, di-triphyllous. 

 Leaves lorate, leathery, 12 — 15 inches long. Peduncles erect, purplish, 

 longer than the leaves, paniculate, many flowered. Flowers fragrant, 

 2 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals similar, linear-spathulate with 

 revolute margin, the basal half pale greenish yellow, tlie distal half brownish 

 purple ; the side lobes of the lip sub-quadrate, erect, pale yellow with 

 a few red streaks at the base ; the middle lobe broadly deltoid, undulate, 

 light yellow bordered with orange and traversed longitudinally by several 

 lines of minute purple hairs. 



Epidendrum alatum. Batem Orch. Mex. etGuat. t. 18 (1839—43). Lindl. Fol. Orch. 



Ep. No. 53. E. calochilum, Bot. Mag. t. 3898. E. lon^niietalum, Lindl. in Paxt. 



Fl. Gard. I. t. 30 (1850). E. formosum, Klotzsch, Allg. Gait. Zeit. 1853, p. 201. 



Discovered by Mr. G. Ure Skinner in 1837^ in Honduras, growing 

 in company with Epidendrum Stamford I an am ; afterwards detected 

 by Hartweg, in Guatemala, It has since been frequently imported 

 with other Central American orchids. 



E. arachnoglossum. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. Steuis cyliudric, 3 — 5 feet high, leafy above. Leaves 

 sessile, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 3 — 4 inches long. Peduncles almost entirely 

 invested with closely adherent scarious bracts and terminating in a dense 

 many-flowered nodding raceme. Flowers on greenish crimson pedicels an 

 inch long, rich magenta-crimson, except the orange-yellow fleshy disk of 

 the lip; sepals and petals similar, elliptic-oblong; the petals Avith toothed 

 margin, the sepals entire ; lip three-lobed, each lobe spreading and 

 fimbriated, the middle one with a deep cleft in the anterior margin. Crest 

 consisting of four bright orange central teeth, with a smaUer M'liite 

 one on each side and a broad denticulate plate in front. 



Epidendrum arachnoglossum, Rchb. ex. Andre in Eevue Hort. 1882, p. 554. 



Discovered by M, Edouard Andre, in 1876, on the volcano of 

 Purace, in southern New Granada, at an elevation of 6,000 feet, in 

 limited numbers, growing upon trees in company with Epidendrum 

 paniculatnm. M. Andre was also the introducer of the plant, and 

 the first to flower it in Kuro])e. Owing to the slow elongation of the 



