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spreading, subulate-lanceolate, acute, yellow blotched with brown-purple ; 

 petals linear, similarly coloured ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes serai- 

 ovate, fringed with upturned bristles, white ; middle lobe linear, straight, 

 pale yellow; calli two. Column white with a purple blotch at the apex. 

 Epidendrum criniferum, Echb. in Gard, Chron. 1871, p. 1291. Bot. Mag. t. 6094. 

 Discovered by Endres in Costa Rica, and introduced by us in 

 1871. The specific name, from criiw, "a lock of hair," and ferre, 

 '^to bear/^ i^efers to the fringed side lobes of the lip. The species 

 is still very rare in the orchid collections of this country. 



E. dichromum. 



ExcYOLiUM. Pseudo-bulbs ovoid-cylindric, 3 — 4 inches long, diphyllous. 



Leaves ligulate, acute, 9 — 12 inches long, very leathery. Peduncles 



paniculate, 18 — 24 inches long, nodding, many flowered. Flowers 2 inches 



in diameter ; sepals broadly spathulate, pale rose tinted with ochreous 



yellow ; petals broader, obovate, pale rose ; lip three-lobed, lateral lobes 



rotund-oblong, erect with reflexed anterior margins, which are purple ; 



middle lobe spreading sub-orbicular, emarginate. crimson-purple striated 



with deep j)urple, with two fleshy lamellae on the disc. Column 



triquetral, with two short wings, white stained with purple. 



Epidendrum dichromum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, misc. No. 119. Id. Fol. 

 Orch. Ep. No. 76, 1853. Kchb. in Gard. Chron. 1866, p. 219. Bot. Mag. t. 

 5491 (amabile). E. amabile, Godefroy's Orchidopliile, 1887, p. 304. 



An exceptionally" fine species first introduced from Pernambuco, in 



1843, by M. Quesnel, of Havre, and re-introduced in \^Q\' by 



Messrs. Low and Co., of Clapton, from Bahia. In its native country 



it is said to grow " in exposed places on the margin of rivers, 



establishing itself on the branches of low straggling bushes, and 



sending its roots down into the sand amidst which they grow." * 



The flowers are variable in colour, the sepals and petals being 



sometimes nearly white, sometimes deep rose, while in the form 



with which we are best acquainted they are as described above. 



The specific name, Si)((oa)^toc (dichromos), "of two colours,'' which 



is not especially appropriate to this species, was first applied to it 



by Dr. Lindley on the erroneous information that it had pure w^hite 



sepals and petals and a rose-coloured labellum. 



E. eburneum. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. Stems terete, slender, 20 — 30 inches high, furnished 

 along the upper half with linear-oblong leaves, 3—4 inches Ion". 

 Peduncles 4 — 6 flowered. Flowers 3 — 4 inches across from the top of 



* Bateman, in Bot. Mag. sub. t. 5491. 



