EPli)KNI)KUM. 98 



growing amidst terns and moss, its stems sometimes attaining a 

 height of 6 feet or more. The flowers are among the handsomest of 

 the genus, and under the influence of direct sunlight scent the whole 

 house in which the plant is growing. It is said to be a rare species 

 in its native country, which may account for its being but seldom 

 seen in the orchid collections of Europe. The specific name, from 

 Ki'r]iiug-iSoQ, a greave for the protection of the leg, hence "a sheath," 

 and (j>opnQj ^'bearing," refers to the numerous blunt, pale green, spathe- 

 like bracts that sheath the base of the peduncle. 



E. cochleatum. 



AuLiZBUM. Stems pseudo-bulbout;, oblong, elongate, compressed, 3 — -t 



inches long, Jiphyllous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 6 inches long. 



Peduncles erect, longer than the leaves, sheathed by a scarious brown 



bract at the base, and terminating in a 4 — 7 flowered raceme. Flowers 



3^4 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals linear, greenish white ; lip 



sub-orbicular or fan-shaped when spread out, concave, shell-like, apicu- 



late, traversed by numerous radiating lines, deep maroon-purple beneath, 



yellow-green above with a large maroon-purple blotch on each side ; 



calli, three, white. Colmnn white stained with purple ; anther case 



orange-yellow. 



Epidendruni cochleatum, L. Sp. Plant, ed. II. p. 1351. Lindl. Fol. Orch. En 

 No. 128 (1853). Bot. Mag. t. 572. E. lancifolium, Bot. Reg. 1842, t. 50.' 



One of the few epiphytal orchids known to Linnteus, and the 

 first on record to flower in this country, which it did in the Koyal 

 Gardens at Kevv in 1787, it having been sent there the year before 

 from the West Indies by Mr. Hinton East, with Epidendnim 

 fragrans, but which did not flower for the first time till a year 

 after E. cochleatum. 



Epuieudrum cochleatum has a wide range in the West Indies 

 Mexico, and Central America, whence it spreads into New Granada 

 and Venezuela; it is also one of the ^ewr epiphytal orchids that occur 

 within the territories of the United States, it having been discovered 

 quite recently at Jupiter Inlet on the Atlantic coast of Florida. 

 The specific name, cochleattan, literally ''spiral like the shell of a 

 snail," refers to the fancied resemblance of the lip to the shell of 

 some species of snail. 



E. conopseum. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. "Stems slender, 1 — 3 inches high, diphyllous. Leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2 — 3 inches long. Peduncles as lon<'- attain as 



