108 EPIDENDRUM. 



slender pedicels, 3 — 4 inches long ; sepals and petals linear, acuminate, 

 pale ochreous yellow, sometimes greenish white ; lip white, three-lobed, 

 the lateral lobe semi-ovate, crenate with a deep sinus between them, in 

 which is the linear-oblong intermediate one, at the base of which are 

 two yellow (sometimes white) calli, with a raised line between them. 



Epidendrum nocturnura, L. Sp. Plant. 1349 (1764). Bot. Mag. t. 3298 (1834). 



Bot. Beg. t. 1961 (latifoliuin). Lindl, Fol. Orch. Ep No. 254. E. discolor, A. Ki-^li. 



et Galeot. E. tridens, Poep. {fide Lindl.). E. Spruceanum, Lindl. Fol. Orch. 



No. 253, ex. Hemsley, Biolog. Cent. Amer. III. p. 235. 



Widely distributed through the West India Islands and tropical 

 America from Mexico to Peru. It was one of the true Epidendra 

 known to Linn^us, to whom it was probably communicated by Jacquin, 

 an excellent French botanist of the last century, who gathered it on 

 the island of Martinique. It was one of the earliest epiphytal orchids 

 introduced into European gardens, it having been in cultivation in 

 1816 and probably earlier; it usually flowers in the early spring 

 months, when the pleasant fragrance of its flowers, which is most 

 powerful towards evening and at night, is its chief recommendation. 

 Epidendrum longicoUe, from Demerara* is probably a narrow - leaved, 

 small-flowered geographical form of E. nodurnum. 



E. ochraceum. 



Encyclium. Pseudo-bu^bs elongated, pyriform, 1 — \^ inch long, 

 dipliyllous. Leaves linear, 3 — 5 inches long, sedge-like with a depressed 

 mid-nerve above, keeled beneath. Peduncles slender, terete, erect, half as 

 long as the leaves, racemose, 9 — 12 flowered. Flowers | an inch in 

 diameter, with a small acuminate bract at the base of the short ovary; 

 sepals and petals similar, roundish oblong, orange-brown ; lip yellow, 

 three-lobed, the side lobes rotund, embracing the column, the front lobe 

 smaller, broadly oblong, emarginate, with a tridentate callus at its base. 

 Column triquetral, three-toothed at the apex. 



Epidendrum ochraceum, Lindl. Bot. Beg. 1838, t. 26, and misc. No. 15. Fol. Orch. 

 Ep. No. 18. 



A small-flowered species discovered by Mr. G. Ure Skinner, in 

 Guatemala, and sent by him in 1835 to Sir Charles Lemon, in whose 

 collection at Carclew it flowered in July of the following year ; 

 subsequently it was received by Messrs Loddiges from Oaxaca, in 

 Mexico. It is not uncommon in southern Mexico and Guatemala^ 

 whence it is occasionally imported with other orchids. 



E oncidioides. 



Encyclium. Pseudo-bulbs narrowly oblong, sub-terete, 3 — 4 inches 

 long, di-triphyllous. Leaves narroAvly ensiform, 18 — 25 inches long, 

 * Bot. Mag. t. 4165. 



