94 EPinENDRDM. 



tile leaves, 5 — 6 ur more tiowered. Flowers scarcely an inch across 



vertically, pale yellowish green spotted with purple ; sepals cuneate- 



sjjathulate, spreading ; petals similar but narrower ; lip three-lobed, the 



lobes sub-equal, the lateral two roundish oblong, the intermediate one 



sub-quadrate, emarginate with two white calli at the base. Column 



reddish at the margin." — Botanical Magazine. 



Epidendrum conopseum, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew, V. ed. 2, p. 219 (1810—13). 

 Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 106. Id. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 269. Bot. Mag. t. 3457. 



This little plant is more interesting from its geographical position 

 than from any other cause, for those floral characters that usually 

 attract the attention of horticulturists are here almost entirely absent. 

 It was discovered in West Florida in the early part of the 

 present century by Drummond, one of the most energetic botanical 

 explorers of the southern States of his time. It is now known 

 to be spread over a considerable part of the coast region, extend- 

 in o- from Port Royal Inlet, South Carolina, about lat. 82 N. through 

 Florida and along the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico, as 

 far as Louisiana. It is occasionally sent by English residents in Florida 

 to their relatives at home, by whom it is cultivated as a souvenir of 

 their absent friends. 



E. Cooperianum. 



EuEPiDENDRU.M. Stems erect, stoutish, 24 — 30 inches high. Leaves 



confined chiefly to the upper portion of the stem, oblong-lauceolate, 



amplexicaul, 6 inches long. Eacemes nodding, many flowered. Flowers 



H inches in diameter; sepals oval-oblong, yellowish brown; petals 



linear, of similar but brighter colour ; lip bright rose, three-lobed, the 



lateral lobes much the largest, sub-rotund, the intermediate lobe small, 



reniform, emarginate with a broad raised line from the notch to the base 



where there are two white calli. Column coloured like the lip. 



Epidendrum Cooperianum, Batem. in Bot. Mag. t. 5654 (1867). Rchb, in Gard. 

 Chron. XVII. (1882), p. 460 (caloglossum). 



Introduced from the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro in 1865. 



It flowered for the first time in this country in the following 



year, in the collection of Mr. Cooper, at Alpha House, Old Kent 



Road, after whom it is named, and shortly afterwards in the late 



Mr. Dawson's collection, at Meadow Bank, near Glasgow. 



E. criniferum. 



EuEPiDEXDRUM. Stems 12 — 15 inches high, slender, leafy throughout. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, 3 — 4 inches long, sessile, acute. Racemes sub- 

 erect, 6 or more flowered. Flowers about 2 mches in diameter ; sepals 



