114 EPIDENDEUM. 



E. radiatum. 



AuLiZEUM. Rhizome creeping, ligneous, as tliick as an ordinary 

 writing-pencil. Stems shortly fusiform, stalked, 3 — 5 inches long, much 

 compressed and strongly ribbed, di-triphyllous. Leaves linear-ligulate, sub- 

 acuminate, 10 — 15 inches long. Racemes issuing from a short compressed 

 sheath, 7 — 10 or more flowered. Flowers 1| inches in diameter ; sepals 

 and petals reflexed, cream colour, the former narrowly oblong, acute, the 

 latter much broader, oval ; lip concave, shell-like with undulate margin, 

 white with radial bright purple lines. Column terete above, green with 

 some purple dots, and with two yellow teeth at the apex between which 

 is a small white fringed lacinia. 



Epiclendruiii radiatum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, misc. No. 123. Id. 1842, t. 4.5. 



Id. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 130. E. marginatum, Link, Klotzsch and Otto, Ic. PI. t. 36. 



E. bracteolatum, Presl. Keliq. Htenk. p. 100 (these syns. ex. Lindl. Fol. Orcli. 



loc. cit. ). 



First imported from Mexico by Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, 

 in 184 1, and shortly afterwards sent to the Horticultural Society of 

 London, by Hartweg, who gave no locality. It had been previously 

 detected by Dr. Schiede, grovs^ing on rocks at the Hacienda de la 

 Laguua, and it was subsequently found by Galeotti in Oaxaca and 

 other places, and also by Mr. G. Ure Skinner in Guatemala. Its 

 nearest affinities are Epidendrum cochleatum and E. fragrans, with 

 both of which it has occasionally been confused, especially with the 

 last named, from which it differs in little besides its more strongly 

 ribbed stems, its larger flowers with broader segments, and in the 

 lip not being apiculate. 



E. radicans. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. Stems scandent, several feet long, often branched near 

 their base, and emitting from opposite the leaves thread-like roots, 12 — 20 

 or more inches long. Leaves ovate-oblong, 2 inches long, emarginate. 

 Peduncles slender, sheathed by imbricating adherent bracts, and terminating 

 in a many-flowered corymbiform raceme. Flowers 1| — 2 inches in 

 diameter on pale orange-red jjedicels ; sepals and petals spreading, elliptic- 

 oblong, acute, rich cinnabar-red shaded with deep scarlet ; lip with three 

 spreading fringed lobes, of which the middle one is bipartite, bright 

 orange-yellow, deeper towards the margin. 



Epidendrum radicans, Pa von M.S. ex. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 104 (1831), 

 and Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 220 (1853). Paxt. iMng. Bot. XII. p. 145. The Garden, 

 XXI F. (1883), t. 412. Williams' Orch. Alb. IV. t. 161. E. rhizophorum, Batem. 

 in Bot. Keg. 1838, misc. No. 10. 



S'Ub-YQSr.—fuscatum (Gard. Chron. V. s 3. (1889), p. 43), perianth totally 

 suffused with a peculiar purple tint, verging a little to mauve and to 

 reddish brown. 



