EPIDENDRUM. 109 



sub-acuminate, leathery. Peduncles erect or sub-erect, pale green, 



from 3 — 4 feet high under cultivation, occasionally much higher in a 



wild state, loosely paniculate, many flowered. Flowers fragrant, 1| 



inches in diameter ; sepals and petals clawed, obovate, red-brown margined 



and striated with yellow, the claw wholly yellow ; lip three-lobed, buflf. 



yellow with some red-brown streaks on the front lobe, the side lobes 



narrowly oblong, the intermediate lobe sub-rotund, cuspidate, with three 



keels on the disk. Column auriculate at the apex. 



Epidendrum oncidioides, Liudl. Bot. Reg. t. 162.3 (1833). Id. Fol. Orch. Ep. No 

 29. E. affine, Focke, Allg. Gartenz, 184:3, p. 229. E. spectabile, Id. p. 341. e! 

 guatemaleuse, Klotzsch, Id. 18.52, p. 246. E. granitieum, Lindl. 



First cultivated by Mr. Richard Hai-rison, of Liverpool, from 



whose specimen the coloured drawing in the Botanical Register was 



taken; its native country was then unknown. Ten years later it 



was gathered by iSchoniburgk on the granite ridges of the rivers 



Cuyumi and Guayna, in Demerara, and subsequently by Focke, in 



Surinam. It is a stately species almost entirely neglected by 



amateurs of the present day. 



E. pallidiflorum. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. Stems terete, 12 — 18 inches high. Leaves linear- 

 oblong, obliquely emarginate, 5 — 7 inches long, confined to the upper 

 part of the stem. Peduncles longer than the leaves, drooping, usually 

 paniculate, many flowered. Flowers an inch across, pale yellow, with 

 some purple streaks* at the apex of the column and on the side lobes 

 of the lip ; sepals and petals similar and sub-equal, oblanceolate ; lip 

 three-lobed, the lateral lobes sub-quadrate, the intermediate lobe similar, 

 with the anterior margin involute and with a thickish raised median 

 line, on each side of which, in front of the column, are two short lamellae, 

 each with an obtuse tooth. 



Epidendrum i,allidiflorum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2980 (1830). Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ep. 

 No. 180. 



Native of Dominica (and probably other West India islands), whence 

 it was sent to the Glasgow Botanic (harden, in 1828 or 1829 ; it is 

 not now often seen in the orchid collections of this country. Its 

 pleasantly-fragrant flowers are produced in profusion in December 

 and January. 



E. paniculatum. 



EuEPiDENUKU.M. Stems terete, erect, 3 — 4 feet high, leafy along the 

 upper portion. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, acute, 5 — 7 inches long. 

 Panicle 12 — 15 inches long, many flowered. Flowers fragrant, | inch 



* The purple streaks are sometimes entirely absent, or but faintly represented. 



