EPIDBNDRUM. 69 



E. auritum. 



Encyolium. Pseudo-bulbs placed at intervals of about an inch on a 

 stoutish ascending rhizome, oval-oblong, compressed, 1| inches long, 

 monophyUous. Leaves narrowly ligulate, 6 inches long. Peduncles from 

 the axis of the young growths, as long as the leaves, sheathed at 

 the base by imbricating green scales, 3 — 5 flowered. Flowers an inch 

 in diameter with a rather strong apple fragrance ; sepals and petals 

 light yellow, keeled behind, the sepals lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, 

 the petals much shorter, linear-oblong, erect, reflexed at the tip; lip 

 linear-oblong, scarcely appressed to the column, not lobed, with a broad 

 keel beneath that is dilated at the apex, of a deeper yellow than the 

 other segments, and with a purple stain at the base. Column three- 

 toothed at the apex, yellow with a purple marginal line round the 

 stigma. 



Epidendrum auritum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843, misc. No. 4. Id. Fol. Orch. Ep. 

 No. 13. Dinema pubescens, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. No. 112. 



First sent to Mr. Bateman^ in 1839, from Guatemala by Mr. G. 

 Ure Skinner. It is a curious species, in which the flower scapes are 

 produced from the axis of the young growths before the pseudo- 

 bulbs are matured, and in which the lip is neither lobed nor adnate 

 to the coluinn but attached to its base only and scarcely appressed 

 to it ; in other respects it conforms to the sectional characters of 

 Encyclium. For materials for description we are indebted to Mr. 

 (t. C. Raphael, of Castle Hill, Englefield Green, who recently 

 received the plant from Mexico. 



E. Barkeriola 



Barkeri^. a diminutive plant. Stems 2 — 3 inches high, each 

 furnished with about four linear-lanceolate, acute leaves. Peduncles 

 slender, nodding, 3 — 5 flowered. Flowers 1^ inches across vertically ; 

 sepals and petals similar and sub-equal, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, pale lilac 

 sufi'used with white ; lip oblong with the lateral margins depressed, 

 white with an amethyst-purple transverse blotch near the anterior edge, 

 and sometimes a second smaller one below it. Column greenish white 

 spotted with purple. 



Epidendrum Barkeriola, supra. Barkeria Barkeriola, Rclib. in (iard. Chron. .\XII. 

 (1884), p. 616. 



Introduced by Messrs. Sander and Co. of St. Albans, in 1884. 

 Native country not recorded. It is very near E^^idendrurn {Barkeria) 

 elegans, of which it is probably an alpine form. 



E. bicameratum. 



Encyclium. Pseudo-bulbs elongated, ovoid or sub-conic, slightly com- 

 pressed, 1| — 2 inches long, usually ]iale pea-green, <liphyllou.s. Leaves 



