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acute, incurved, reflexed at the tip, nankeen-yellow, purplish behind ; lip 



trowel-shaped, apiculate, with 1 — 3 longitudinal raised lines, pale yellow 



but sometimes white at the base, apical area purple. Column green 



spotted with purple, three-toothed at the apex. 



Epidendrum Brassavolaj, Rchb. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 729. Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ep. 

 No. 7 (1853). Bot. Mag. t. 5664. Batem. in Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 682. 



A distinct species first discovered by Warscewicz^ in Veragua, on 



the volcano of Chiriqui at 8,000 feet elevation, about the year 1848, 



and communicated by him to Professor Reicbenbach, who described 



it in Mohl and ScblechtendaFs Botanische Zeitung for 1852. It 



was subsequently found by Mr. G. Ure Skinner on the mountains of 



Guatemala, and sent by him to Mr. Bateman, in whose collection at 



Biddulph Grange, in Staffordshire, it flowered in 1867. It has since 



been frequently imported, and is found to be somewhat variable in 



the size and colour of the flowers. 



E. ciliare. 



AuLiZEUM. Stems clavate, compressed, 4 — 6 inches long, diphyllous. 



Leaves oblong, leathery, 4 — 6 inches long. Peduncles as long as or longer 



than the leaves, 5 — 7 flowered, the pedicels sheathed by large compressed 



greenish bracts ; sepals and petals linear acuminate, 2 inches long, pale 



yellow-green ; lip shorter than the other segments, white, tripartite, the 



lateral lobes deeply fimbriate, the middle lobe filiform. Column white. 



Epidendrum cifiare, L. Sp. Plant, ed. II. p. 1349 (1764). Bot. lleg. t. 784 (1824). 

 Bot. Mag. t. 463. Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 90. E. cuspidatuni, Lodd. Bot. Cah. t. 

 10 (1818). Bot. Reg. t. 783. 



One of the commonest of Epidendrums and one of the first 



epiphytal orchids cultivated in British gardens. According to the 



Botanical Register, it was first introduced in 1 790, from the West 



Indies, by a Mr. Rlcock ; four years later it was among the few 



epiphytal orchids then cultivated in the Royal Gardens at Kew, and 



in 1799 it flowered in Mr. Whiteley^s nursery at Old Brompton. In 



the first decade of the present century it was in cultivation in the 



nurseries of Messrs. Loddiges, at Hackney, and of Mr. Colville, at 



Chelsea; and from that time to the present it may be assumed to 



have been rarely absent altogether from the stoves of this country 



for any lengthened period. Epidendrum ciliare is spread over tropical 



America between the 5th and 20th parallels of north latitude, 



including several of the West India Islands, varying a little in the 



size of its stems, inflorescence and flowers in different localities. The 



plant has the habit of a Cattleya of the lahiata group, with which it 



