EPIDENDEUM. 



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var.— Centerse. 



Flowers larger Avith the lip more acute ; the column blotched with 



purple ; the flowers generally of a deeper colour, especially the apical 



portion of the lip. 



E. Lindleyanum Centerse, supra. Barkeria Lindleyana Centerse, Rchb. in Gard. 

 Chron. 1873, p. 1597. The Garden. XXVII. (1885), t. 490. 



var. — cyclotellum. 



Flowers magenta-purple Avith disk of lip white ; petals and lip broader, 



the latter emarginate, not apiculate. 



E. Lindleyauum cyclotellum, supra. Barkeria cyclotella, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 

 XIII. (1880), p. 7?. Williams' Orch. Alb. IV. t. 148. 



This species is better known in cultivation under the name of 



Barkeria Lindleyana; it is of Central American origin and occurs 



at intervals near the Pacific coast, from Costa Rica to Mexico, It 



was originally discovered by Mr. G. Ure Skinner, in Costa Kica, and sent 



by him, in 1839, to Mr. Bateraan, in whose collection at Knypersley 



Epidendrura Lindleyanum. 

 (Copied from the Botanical Magazine.) 



it flowered for the first time in this country, in 1841. The variety 

 CentercB was introduced by us from Costa Rica, in 1873, through 

 M. Endres; it is dedicated to Mrs. Center, the wife of the then 

 superintendent of the Panama Railway. The variety ci/clotellum is 

 of more recent introduction, and is, we believe, of Mexican origin. 

 The variability of the species is further seen in the various unnamed 

 forms, differing in colour only, that have been sent to us from time 



