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EPtDENDRtJM. 



broadly linear, acute, 6 inches long, very leathery. Peduncles erect, 

 12 — 15 inches long, issuing from a compressed spathe, slender, glaucous, 

 15 — 20 flowered. Flowers about an inch in diameter, inverted ; sepals 

 and petals similar and ecjual, obovate-oblong, apiculate, deep sepia-brown 

 bordered with orange-brown ; li]) white, three-lobed, the side lobes 

 roundish ol)long, incurved over the column, the intermediate lobe trans- 

 versely oblong, reflexed with a three-ribbed oblong plate at the base, in 

 front of which are three purple spots. Column short, triquetral, greenish. 



Epidendrutii bicameratum, Ilclib. in Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 1194. E. Karwinskyi, 

 Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 710, not in Bonpl. IV. p. 327. E, squalidum, Lindl. 

 Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 20, not Llav. et Lex. 



First discovered by Karwinsky more than half a century ago, in 



the neighbourhood of Oaxaca in Mexico, and subsequently gathered 



by Galeotti and other botanical explorers in Centi-al America. It 



was introduced by us, in 1868, amongst aa importation of Epidendrum 



vitellinum, and is still occasionally met with in collections. 



E. Brassavolse. 



ExcYCLiuM. Pseudo-bulbs pyriform, elongate, compressed, 4 — 6 inches long, 

 diphyllous. Leaves spreading, oblong-lanceolate, emarginate, 6 — 9 inches 



Epidendrum Brassavolfe. 



long. Racemes issuing from a narroAv compressed sheath, 3 irches long, 

 erect, 1 — 2 feet long, dull crimson and green, 6 — 9 flowered. Flowers 

 3 — 4 inches in diameter ; sepals aird petals similar, linear-lauceolate, 



