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sented to the Apothecaries^ (xarden at Chelsea by Commodore Gardner, 

 where one of them flowered ia February, 1706; it was therefore 

 one of the first epiphytal orchids introduced into British gardens. 



E. Frederic! Guilielmi. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. A robust plant with stems 4 — 5 feet high, as thick 



as a man's thumb, but usually smaller under cultivation. Leaves oblong, 



obtuse, 6 — 9 inches long. Peduncles sheathed at the base by a spath- 



aceous bract, paniculate, many flowered. Flowers red-purple, 2 inches in 



diameter, on slender reddish purple pedicels, 3 — 4 inches long ; sepals 



and petals similar, spreading, cuneate-lanceolate, acute ; lip shorter than 



the other segments, three-lobed, the side lobes rotund, the middle lobe 



deltoid, acute ; calli two, white. 



Epidendrum Frederici Guilielmi, Warsc. et Rchb. in Bonpl. II. p. 110 (1853). 

 Rchb. Xen. Orch. I. p. 158, t. 51 (1856). Illas. hort. 1871, t. 48. De Puydt, 

 Les. Orch. t. 19. 



Discovered on the Andes of northern Peru at 6,000 — 8,000 feet 

 elevation, about the year J 851, by Warscewicz, who failed to com- 

 municate the exact locality. It was rediscovered some years afterwards 

 by Gustav Wallis while collecting plants for M. Linden, of Ghent, 

 but only a single plant of this orchid reached Europe alive. 

 It has since been re-iutroduced, but in number so restricted 

 that it is still rare in European collections. Its flowers are among 

 the handsomest of the genus, but the unwieldy size of the plant 

 is an obstacle to its finding favour with many amateurs. It was 

 dedicated to the late King Frederick William, of Prussia. 



E. fucatum. 



Encyclium. Pseudo-bulbs crowded, ovoid, but sometimes sub-pyriform, 



elongated, diphyllous. Leaves linear, rigid, 7 — 10 inches long. Peduncles 



slender, 2 feet long, branched along the distal half. Flowers very 



numerous, 1^ inches in diameter, delightfully fragrant; sepals and petals 



linear-spathulate, deep ochreous yellow ; lip free, white streaked with 



purple, three-lobed, the side lobes erect, linear-oblong, roundish at the 



apex, the middle lobe obcordate ; crest bi-lamellate, 



Epidendrum fucatum, Lindl. in Bot. Keg. 1838, misc. No. 17. Id. Fol. Orch. Ep. 

 No. 36. E Sagneanum, A. Rich. 



Brought from Havannah in the spring of 1835 by Captain Sutton, 



and sent to Sir Charles Lemon's collection at Carclew, where it 



flowered for the first time in July, 1837. Like other Cuban orchids 



it is now but rarely seen in British gardens; its specific name 



/wcaiwm, literally "dyed," "beautified," probably refers to the labellum. 



