112 EPIDENDRUM. 



inches long, di-triphyllous. Leaves ligulate, flacciil, 12 — 15 inclies long. 



Peduncles erect, longer than the leaves, bearing along the upper half a 



many-tlo'wered raceme. Flowers 1| inches in diameter; sepals and petals 



similar and sub-equal, oblong lanceolate, shortly acuminate, pale greenish 



sulphur-yellow, the sepals with several black- purple roi;ndish spots, the 



petals with fewer spots, sometimes without them ; lip with two white 



roctangular auricles at the base, the blade trowel-shaped, acuminate Avith 



two raised lines on the disk, rose-purple tipped with yellow. Column 



semi-terete, winged, tipped at the apex, pale yellow. 



Epidendru7ii prismatocarpum, Rchb. in Bot. Zeit. 18.'>2, p. 729. Id. Xen. Orch. II. 

 p. 83, t. 123. Lindl. Fol. Oreh. Ep. No. 23. Bot. Mag. t, 5336. Warner's Sel. 

 Orch. I. t. 9. 



f 

 Epidendrum prismatocarpum. 



Discovered by Warscewicz, in 1349, on the volcano of Chiriqui, in 

 Veragua, Central America, at 5,000 feet above sea-level, where it flowers 

 in November, but in the glass-houses of Europe it usually flowers 

 from May to August, and occasionally later. It was introduced in 

 1856 by Bridges. The specific name refers to the three sharp angles 

 of the short ovary. 



E. Pseudepidendrum. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. Stems terete, 24 — 36 inches high, brownish-purple 



and leafy above. Leaves linear-oblong, acuminate, 5 — 7 inches long. 



Raceme few flowered. Flowers 2 — 3 inches across, on slender compressed 



pedicels sheathed at the base by an acute brown bract ; sepals and petals 



o-reen, the former elliptic- spathulate, the latter linear-spathulate ; lip 



sub-orbicular, retuse, with erose margin, orange-red ; disk wdth five ridges. 



Epidendram Pseudepidendrum, Rchb. JTew. Orch. I. p. 160, t. 53 (1856). Id. in 

 Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 763. Bot. Mag. t. 5929. 



