120 p:pidendrum. 



Discovered by Mr, G. Ure Skinner on the shores of Lake Isabel, near 

 San Mico in Guatemala, in 1837, and sent by him to Mr. Bate- 

 raan, in whose collection at Knypersley it flowered in the spring of 

 the following year. Since that date it has been gathered in various 

 localities in Central America and Colombia by different collectors ; 

 its geographical range is thence known to extend from Mexico 

 southwards to a district on the eastern Cordillera of New Granada, 

 south of Bogota. Throughout so extensive a range, the species 

 shows a slight variability in the flower, chiefly in the form of the 

 labellum and in the colour of the perianth. It was named in 

 compliment to the Earl of Stamford, of Enville Hall, Staffordshire. 

 As stated in the introductory notes, the radical inflorescence is 

 peculiar to this species ; it thence forms by itself the section 



PSILANTHEMUM. 



E. stenopetalum. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. Stems tufted, cylindric, as thick as an ordinary writing- 

 pencil, 12 — 24 inches high, the newest formed leafy from the base. 

 Leaves linear-oblong, 3 — 4 inches long, amplexicaul, emarginate or 

 obtuse, leathery, deep green. Peduncles 5 — 7 or more flowered. 

 Flowers 1| inches in diameter, rosy mauve with a square white 

 blotch on the lip immediately in front of the column ; sepals lanceo- 

 late, sub-acuminate ; petals broader, ovate, acute ; lip broadly obovate, 

 adnate to the short column to half the length of the latter. Column 

 purple. 



Epidendrum stenopetalum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3410 (1835). Lindl. Fol. Orch. 

 Ep. No. 247. Rolfe in Gard. Chron. II. s. 3 (1887), p. 616. E. lamellatiim, 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843, misc. No. 60. 



A species with attractive rose-coloured flowers that was first 

 introduced from Jamaica, in 1834, to the Botanic Garden at Glas- 

 gow, where it flowered in February in the following year. It has 

 occasionally been imported since that date, as mention is made of 

 its being cultivated in Mr. Booth^s collection at Flotbeck, near 

 Hamburg ; in Sir C. Lemon's collection at Carclew, in Cornwall ; 

 and quite recently we have received flowers from M. Witte, 

 Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Leyden, whence plants 

 had been received from Surinam, in Dutch Guiana. It is also 

 said to occur in Honduras, Panama, and near San Cristobal, in 

 Venezuela; its presence in the last named locality, however, seems 

 to i-equire confirmation. 



