92 • EPIDBNDRUM. 



has sometimes been confused when out of flower ; it is frequently 

 imported mixed with Cattleya lahiata Mossice. It flowers in December 

 and January. 



E. cinnabarinum. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. Steuis slender, terete, 3 — 4 feet long, dull purple and 



green, leafy along the distal half. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3 — 5 inches 



long, reflexed at apex. Peduncles greatly elongated, bearing at their 



extremity a dense raceme of bright red flowers, the rachis continuing to 



lengthen and produce new flowers for several weeks in succession. 



Flowers 1| — 2 inches across, bright cinnabar-red with the disk of the 



lip yellow ; sepals and petals similar and sub-equal, lanceolate, acute ; 



lip three-lobed, the side lobes sub-quadrate with laciniate margin, the 



middle lobe smaller, oblong, emarginate, constricted near the toothed 



truncate apex, with two tubercles at the base, and a broad raised median 



line extending the whole length. Column terete, cinnabar-red, yellow at 



the apex ; anther case green. 



Epidendnim cinnabarinum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 106 (1831). £ot. Reg. 

 1842, t. 25. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 218 (1853). 



First discovered by Salzraann, a German collector, in sand}' thickets 



near Bahia, and afterwards gathered by Martins on the " Serra de 



Sincora, and on rocks near Villa Rica in the province of Minas, 



growing 4 — 5 feet high." It was imported from Pernambuco 



by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose nursery it flowered for the first 



time in May, 1840; it is one of the finest of the red-flowered 



Epidendrums. 



E. cnemidophorum. 



EuBPiDENDRUM. Stems stoutish, leafy, 4 — 6 feet high. Leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, 6 — 8 inches long. Eacemes nodding, many flowered. 

 Flowers fragrant, on long white ))edicels sheathed at the base by a small 

 green bract, about an inch in diameter, red spotted with pale yellow, 

 the lip rose colour ; sepals oblong-obtuse ; petals narrower, almost linear ; 

 lip three-lobed, lobes fleshy, entire, the lateral two rotund, the inter- 

 mediate one obcordate with a deep cleft in the anterior margin, from 

 which to the base are two raised whitish lines. Column clavate. 



Epidendrum cnemidophorum, Lind. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 168 (1853). Gard. Chron. 

 1864, p. 292 and p. 364. Bot. Mag. t. 5656. 



Discovered by Mr. G. Ure Skinner, who failed to introduce it till 1864, 

 in which year he sent a few plants to some of his personal friends and 

 to our Chelsea nursery, which fortunately survived the voyage. It 

 is a native of the province of Quesaltenango, in Guatemala, where it 

 is found at a considerable elevation on the slopes of deep ravines, 



