EPIDENDRUM. 



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by Hartweg, from Mexico, to the Horticultural Society ot London, 

 in wliose garden at Chiswick it flowered in the summer oi 1842. 



E. Stamfordianum. 



PsiLANTHEMUM. Stems fusiform, 9 — 12 inches long, attenuated below 



into a slender footstalk, di-triphyllous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 6 — 9 



inches long. Peduncles from the base of the stems and exceeding them 



in length, racemose, sometimes paniculate. Flowers numerous, fragrant, 1^ 



inches across vertically; sepals lanceolate-oblong, acute, yellow spotted 



with, red ; petals similar but smaller, narrower at the base, and with 



fewer but larger spots ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes ovate-oblong, 



white or very pale yellow, the front lobe clawed, transversely oblong 



with fimbriate margin, yellow ; crest bipartite, violet-purple. Column 



terete, violet-purple at the apex. 



Epidendrum Stamfordianum, Batem. Orrh. Mex. et Guat. t. 11 (1837 — 43). 

 Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 88. Bot. Mag. t. 4759. E. basilare, Klotzsch in 

 AUg. Gart. Zeit. 1843, p. 193. E. cycnostalix, Rchb. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 731. 



Epidendrum Stamfordianum. 



var.— Wallacei. 



Stems and inflorescence shortei- tlian in tlie Guatemalian type; sepals 

 and petals yellow densely spotted witli purple ; lip cream-white spotted 

 with purple. 



E. Stamfordianum "Wallacei, Rchb. in Card. Chron. 1. .s. 3 (1887), p. 543. 



Sub-vars.-il/r. Lee's (Gard. Chron. III. s. 3 (1888), p. 521), sepals 

 and petals buff-yellow with purple hieroglyjjhic markings, lip light 

 rose spotted with purple; Sir Trevor Lawrence's, sepals and petals 

 vinous-red bordered with yellow, lip light yrlluw spotted with rose. 



