104 EPIDENDEUM. 



Native of British G-uiana, whence it was first introduced by 

 Loddiges about the year 1838. Its chief, if not its sole recom- 

 mendation is the delightful violet fragrance of its flowers, which 

 suggested the specific name. Dr. Lindley remarked* that ''the 

 Western world wants no violets where this charming plant is found, 

 for it fills the air with a fragrance as delicate and delicious as 

 that of our favourite wild flower." 



E. leucochilum. 



EuBPiDENDRUM. A robust plant. Stems from a stout ligneous rhizome, 

 as thick as an ordinary writing-pencil, 15 — 24 inches high with 3 — 5 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse leaves at their upper end. Peduncles issuing 

 from a compressed sheath, 5 — 9 flowered. Flowers on stoutish pedicels, 

 including ovary, 3 — i inches long ; sepals and petals similar and equal, 

 linear, acute, reflexecl, light yellow-green ; lip three-lobed, ivory-white, the 

 side lobes obliquely ovate, entire, the middle lobe linear, acute, keeled 

 above, with two divergent lamellae at the base. Column terete, forming 

 with the claw of the lip a funnel-like aperture, 



Epidendrum leucochilum, Klotzsch in Allg. Gartenzeit, 1843, p. 145 (1844). Lindl. 



Fol. Oich. Ep. No. 158 (1853). Paxt. Fl. Gard. III. p. 146 with fig. Rchb. in Gard. 



Chron. III. (1875), p. 780. E. Imperator, Hort. 



Found wild in various parts of the eastern Cordillera of New 

 Granada and Venezuela, from Pamplona to Caracas, at 6,000 — 9,000 

 feet elevation. It was discovered by Linden in 1842, and subse- 

 quently gathered by Schlim and other collectors in different localities. 

 It was in cultivation at the time Lindley compiled the monograph 

 of the genus for his Folia Orchidacea, but seems to have been 

 subsequently lost; its reappearance in British gardens in 1875, under 

 the name of Epidendnim Imperator, has again brought it under 

 notice. 



E. Lindleyanum. 



Barkeria. Stems terete, 8 — 12 inches high, as thick as a goose-quill. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4 — 5 inches long. Peduncles very slender, 

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

 across vertically, bright rosy purple except the white disk of the lip, 

 on slender pale purple pedicels, at the base of which is a subulate, pale 

 green bract ; sepals and petals lanceolate, acuminate, the petals broader 

 than the sepals ; lip oblong- quadrate, apiculate. Column with narrow 

 wings, three-toothed at the apex. 



Epidendrum Lindleyanum, Rchb. Walp. Ann. VI. p. 375 (1861— 5). £ot. Mag. 



t. 60.^8. Barkeria Lindleyana, B;item. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. No. 5. Id. Orch. 



Mex. et Gicat. t. 28. Paxt. Mag. Bot. XIII. p. 193. 



* Bot. Reg. loc. cit. supra. 



