98 EPI11ENDRUM. 



pedicels, about an inch across vertically, pure white with a few violet 



spots on the lip and column ; sepals oval-oblong, apiculate ; petals 



clawed, narrower than the sepals, linear-oblong ; lip sub-pandurate, the 



side lobes auriculate, the intermediate one bilobate, the segments 



divergent. Column short, terete. 



Epidendrum Endresii, Rchb.in Gard. Cliron. XIX (1883), p. 432. Id. XXII (1885), 

 p. 504, icon. xyl. 



Epidendrum Endresii. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



A. lovely species. It was discovered by Endres while collecting 

 for us in Costa Rica, in 1873, but who failed to send home living 

 plants. It was re-discovered by Mr. F. Lehmann, in March, 1878, 

 who only succeeded in transmitting to Europe one or two plants 



