EPIDENDRUM. 



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spreading, the intermediate lobe white with a red-purple rayed blotch 



on the disk. 



E. atropurpiireum Randianiim, L. Linden et Rodegas in Lindenia, II. t. 1. E. 

 Randianum, B. de Rodr. fide Linden and Rodegas. 



var. — roseura. 



Flowers smaller than in the white-lipped form ; sepals and petals 

 deep purplish brown ; lip rose colour with a purple blotch near the 

 base. 



E. atroimrpureum roseiim, Rchb. in Linden's Peso. t. 27. Illus. Jiort. 1868, t. 



541. E. macrochilum roseum, Batem. Orch. Mex. et Guat. t. 17. Paxt. Mag. 



Bot. XI. p. 243. Van Houtte Fl. des Serves, IF. t. 372 (copied from Paxton). 



sub. -var. — roseo-purpureum, sepals and petals deep chocolate-brown, 

 the whole of the lip magenta-purple. 

 This species is better known in British gardens under the name 

 of Epidendrum macrochilum than under that we have described it 

 above^ but which we have adopted on the authority of Reichenbach, 

 who quotes in Bonplandia, 1854^ p. 19, Wildenow^s description of 

 an herbarium specimen gathered by Humboldt and Honpland be- 

 tween Santa Barbara and Puerto Cabello, in Venezuela, in the 



Epidendrum atrfipuriinri'iini, rar. roseum. 



beginning of the present century, and which was published many 

 years prior to the appearance of Sir William Hooker's E. macroehilum 

 in the Botanical Magazine. 



Epidendrum atropurpureum, has a wide range in Central and South 

 America ; it was fir.st detected by the travellers Humboldt and 

 Bonpland as stated above ; many years afterwards it was gathered 



