EPlDENDftUM; 121 



E. Syringothyrsus. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. Steuis slender, erect, 4 — 5 feet high, leafy upwards. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 6 — 7 inches long. Peduncles clothed 



with brown sheathing bracts at the base, and terminating in a dense 



thyrsoid raceme, 5 — 7 inches long. Flowers an inch in diameter on 



slender horizontal red-purple pedicels (including ovary) l^ inches long; 



sepals and petals spreading, elliptic-lanceolate, red-purple, the petals 



narrower than the sepals ; lip three-lobed, coloured like the other perianth 



segments with the exception of the white disk on which are three yellow 



caUi, the lobes subquadrate, the middle one apiculate. 



Epidendrum Syringothyrsus, Rchb. MSS. in horto. Veitchiano, 1868. Id. Xen. 

 Orch. III. p. 22. Bot. Mag. t. 6145. 



First communicated to the late Professor Ueichenbach, by Mandon,* 



who gathered it in 1858 in the neighbourhood of Sorata, in Bolivia^ 



and also in the Andean valley of Challasuya, growing upon rocks 



amidst shrubs and ferns, a temperate elevated region 8,000 — 9,000 



feet above sea level. It was introduced to our Chelsea nursery 



by Pearce, in 1868, and flowered for the first time in May of the 



following year. It is one of the handsomest of the spathaceous 



Epidendra, but it is still very rare in European gardens. 



E. tampense. 



Encyclium. "Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, small and narrowed above, mono- 



phyllous. Leaves narrowly linear, 6 inches long by 1 inch broad. 



Peduncle slender, exceeding the leaves, brownish. Flowers 1^ inches 



across ; sepals linear, obtuse, narrowed below, light yellowish brown ; 



petals similar but more narrowed below ; lip white, the front lobe 



rounded, obtuse, with a number of purple lines that become confluent 



into a blotch, the side lobes linear with a few faint purple lines. 



Column greenish white with a pair of short teeth on the angles, and 



3 — 5 purple stripes on the back." — Rolfe in Gard. Chron. IV. s. 3 



(1888), p. 150. 



Epidendrum tampense, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847, sub. t. 35. Id. Fol. Orch. Ep. 

 No. 34. 



First communicated to Dr. Lindley by Dr. Torrey, 'Hhe Nestor 



of American botany,'' about the year 1847. It is a small slender 



species, occurring in the neighbourhood of Tampa Bay in Florida, 



and nowhere else, so far as at present known ; it is therefore 



especially interesting to American orchidologists as being one of 



the very few epiphytal orchids found wild within the United States 



territory. It is rarely seen in British gardens. 



* Xen. Orch. 111. p. 22. 



