106 EPIDBNDRUM. 



to time by correspondents, one of the most distinct of which had 

 white sepals and petals. 



Epidendrum Lindlej/anum flowers in November and December, when 

 the rich colour of its elegant racemes of flowers renders it one of the 

 most striking ornaments of the orchid house at that dull season of 

 the year. 



E. m5n:ianthum. 



EuEPiDENDRUJi. Stems cylindric, slender, 3 — 5 feet high, spotted with 



black along the upper leafy portion. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, 4 — 5 



inches long. Panicles loosely branched, many flowered. Flowers of a 



uniform bright purplish rose, on long slender purple pedicels ; sepals 



ovate-oblong ; petals linear spatliulate ; lip rpiadripartite, the basal lobes 



oblong-obtuse, the anterior two subquadrate, as broad again as the basal 



two, and with the apical margin denticulate ; at the base of the Hp are 



two short, bright yellow lamellae. Column short, thickened at the apex. 



Epidendrum myrianthum, Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 184 (1854). Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5556. 



One of the handsomest of the paniculate Epidendra that was originally 



discovered by a Mr. Klee on the mountains of Guatemala, but its 



introduction is due to Mr. Gr. Ure Skinner, who sent plants to Mr. 



Bateman, in whose collection at Knypersley it flowered for the first 



time, many years after its introduction, in June, 1865. We are 



indebted to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., for materials for 



description. 



E. nemorale. 



Encyclium. Pseudo-bulbs pyriform or sub-globose, 2 — 3 inches long, 



pale green, di-triphyllous. Leaves linear -lorate, very coriaceous, rigid, erect, 



9 — 12 inches long. Peduncles about 2 feet long, reddish green, 



densely spotted with greyish warts, and terminating in a many flowered 



panicle. Flowers 3 — 4 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals similar, 



spreading, linear-lanceolate, light rosy mauve ; lip three-lobed, the small 



side lobes triangular, erect, rosy mauve, the intermediate lobe much larger, 



ovate-rhomboid, acute with dentate margin, light mauve streaked with 



purple; callus bi-lamellate, white. Column angulate, winged, rosy mauve. 



Epidendrum nemorale, Lindl. in Hook. Jour. Bot. III. 82. Id. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 

 60 (1853). Warner's Scl. Orch. I. t. 13. Godefroy's Orchidophile, 1888, p. 304. E. 

 verrucosum, Lindl. not Sw. Bot. Bag. 1844, t. 51.* Bot. Mag. t. 4606. Pajct. Mag. 

 Bot. XIII. (1847), p. 101, 



* The original Epidendriivi verrucosum of Swartz is a very different plant, with simple 

 erect warty stems, and flowers with pale green sepals and petals, and a yellow lip. It is a 

 native of .Jamaica and other West Imlia i.slands. 



