EPIDENDRUM. 97 



This plant, better known in gardens under the name of Barlceria 

 elegons, is the typical species of the former genus Barkeria, but 

 afterwards merged by IJeirbenbach, and subsequently by I'xutham^ 

 info Epideiidium. It was introduced from Mexico in 18 i7 by 

 Mr. Barker, of Birmingham, through his colhctor, l?oss; but it seems 

 to have disappeared from the orchid collections in this country soon 

 afterwards. It was re-introduced in 1853 by Mr. Linden, through 

 Ghiesbreght, who collected it on the slopes of the Guerrero Mountains 

 near the Pacific coast of Mexico, north of Acapulco, where it grows 

 chiefly on stunted Crescentia trees.* 



E. elongatum. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. Stems terete, as thick as an ordinary writing-pencil, 

 12 — 18 inches long. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute, leathery, 2^ — 3 

 inches long. Peduncles greatly elongated, jointed with a sheathing bract 

 at each joint, and terminating in a crowded corymbose raceme of bright ruse- 

 coloured flowers. Flowers about an inch across ; sepals and petals 

 similar and equal, obovate-lanceolate, spreading ; lip three-lobed, all the 

 lobes with denticulate margin, the side lobes roundish, the intermediate 

 lobe much larger, obcordate oblong, emarginate ; crest bilamellate, the 

 lamellae toothed, bright yellow. 



Epidendrum elongatum, Jacq. Ic. PI. rar. III. t. 604. Bot. Maq. t. 611 (1803). 



Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 231 (1853). E. crassiiolium, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 8543. 



A native of Jamaica and probably other West India Islands, that 

 has been in cultivation since the beginning of the present century. 

 It is the typical species of the large sub-section Amphiglottidece, 

 distinguished by the elongated peduncles terminating in short dense 

 racemes of often very showy flowers, that continue a long time in 

 bloom. We are indebted to the Royal Gardens at Kew, for materials 

 for description. t 



E. Endresii. 



EuEPiDENDRUJi. A Small plant. Stems slender, 6—9 inches high, 

 leafy throughout. Leaves ovate-cordate, acute, about an inch long, 

 amplexicaul, almost perfoliate. Racemes erect, 9 — 12 flowered. Bracts 

 subulate, half as long as the stalked ovaries. Flowers on sbort white 



* Linden's Pescatorea, sub. t. 10. 



t Very near Epidendrum elongatum is E. ellipticum (Graham) and E. crasdfolium (Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3543) which is referred by Lindley (Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 230) to Graham's species. 

 On comparing recently received fresh specimens of E. elongatum of West Indian origin 

 with the drawing of E. crassifolium in the Botanical Magazine we failed to detect any 

 essential diflerence, notwithstanding that the last named was said to have been received from 

 Rio de Janeiro. 



