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alive.* Nor have the efforts of subsequent collectors met with a 

 much better reward, for after frequent attempts to import it, only a 

 very few plants have survived the voyage. Oar description was 

 taken from one that flowered in Sir Trevor Lawrence's collection, 

 at Burford Lodge, in March, 1884. 



E. evectum. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. Stems stoutish, tufted, 3 — 5 feet high, swollen at the 

 base, leafy almost from the base. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 4 — 6 inches 

 long, amplexicaul, acute. Peduncles slender, nodding, 18 or more inches 

 long, bearing at their extremity a loose, many-flowered sub-cylindric 

 raceme. Flowers on reddish-coloured pedicels about an inch in diameter, 

 rich magenta-purple ; sepals and petals similar, obovate, obtuse ; lip 

 with three fringed lobes, of which the middle one is divided into two 

 spreading segments. Column reddish brown. 

 Epidendrum evectum, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5902. 



This closely resembles Epidendrum arachnoglossum described above, 

 from which it is easily distinguished by its more robust stems, its 

 looser racemes of larger and brighter coloured flowers ivith a differently- 

 shaped labellum ; it was known long before the introduction of 

 that species, it having been sent to Kew by Purdie, where it was 

 in cultivation many years prior to its being figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine in 1871. It is a native of New Granada, from which 

 country it has since been sparingly imported. 



E. falcatum. 



AuLiZEUM. Rhizome as thick as an ordinary writing pencil, from 

 which the stems are produced at intervals of 1 — 2 inches. Stems like 

 the rhizome 1 — 2 inches long, uionophyllous. Leaves lineardanceolate, 

 acuminate, fleshy, 6—12 inches long, channelled on one side. Peduncles 

 2—5 from the axil of the leaf and sheathed at their base by 2 — 3 

 pointed bracts 4—6 inches long, one flowered ; sepals and petals similar 

 and sub-equal, lanceolate, acute, 2\ inches long, pale yellow-green ; lip 

 spreading, the side lobes sub-rhomboidal with a sinus in the outer 

 margin, white, the intermediate lobe acicular, pale yellow-green at the 

 tip ; calli two, ovoid, pale yellow. Column white. 



Epidendrum falcatum, Lindl. in Tayl. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1840. Id. Fol. Orch. Ep. 



No. 91 (1853). E. Parkinsonianum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3778 (1840). Rchb. in Card. 



Chron. IX. (1878), p. 724. E. aloifolium, Maiem. Orch. Mex. et Guat. X. 2b {\?>iZ). 



E. lactifiorum, A. Rich. Brassavola Pescatotei, Hoit. 



Discovered by Hartweg, in 1837, growing on rocks and loose stones 

 near Oaxaca in Mexico, and shortly afterwards collected by Ross in the 



• Gard. Chron. XXIII (1885), p. 504. 



