122 EPIDENDRUM. 



E. tigrinum. 



AuLiZEUM, Stems from a stout, slowly creeping, woody rhizome, sub- 

 cylindric, slightly compressed, 7 — 10 inches long, invested below with 

 imbricating brown sheaths, and with two joints near the apex from 

 which the oblong, obtuse, sessile leaves, 6 — 8 inches long, spring. 

 Peduncles stoutish, erect, longer than the leaves, racemose, 6 — 9 

 flowered. Flowers fleshy, scentless, 1| — -2 inches in diameter; sepals 

 and petals oblong, acute, bright yellow-green spotted with black-purple, 

 many of the spots ocellated ; lip shorter than the other segments, 

 obeordate, obscurely emarginate with three raised, lines on the disk, 

 minutely pubescent, nankeen-yellow with a striated red stain in front 

 of the column. Column very thick, trilobate at apex, light nankeen- 

 yellow, 



Epidendrum tigrinum, Lindl. Oich. Lind. p. 9 (1846). Id. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 

 116 (1853). 



Introduced in 1843 by Linden, who had discovered it in the 



Merida district of Venezuela, at 5,00C — 6,000 feet elevation, and 



occasionally imported since with other orchids from the same region. 



It is very near Epidendrum variegatum, from which it is easily 



distinguished by its longer and more slender stems, and by its 



fewer-flowered raceme of larger scentless flowers with a differently 



shaped labellum. 



E. tovarense. 



EuEPiDENDRUM. Stems terete, erect, 9 — 12 inches high, nearly as 



thick as the little finger, leafy above. Leaves oval-oblong, 4 — 5 inches 



long, 1 — 1| inches broad. Peduncles 6 — 8 inches long, issuing from 



a long and narrow compressed sheath and terminating in a few-flowered 



raceme. Flowers milk-white ; sepals and petals linear-spathulate, the 



petals the narrowest ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes sub-quadrate, the 



intermediate one oblong-obtuse, emarginate. 



Epidendrum tovarense, Rchb. in Linnaja, XXII. p. 838. Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 

 160 (1853). E. sinuatum, Lindl. fide Hemsley in Gard. Chron. XX. (1883), p. 684. 



Discovered by Wagener about the year 1850, in the Tovar district 

 in Venezuela, where it occurs on the mountains at a considerable 

 elevation; it was subsequently cultivated in the Botanic Gardens at 

 St. Petersburg and other places on the Continent ; its first intro- 

 duction into British gardens does not appear to have been recorded, 

 but it is occasionally imported from Caracas with other orchids from 

 Venezuela. 



E. variegatum. 



AuLizEUM. Stems fusiform, compressed, 6 — 9 inches high, tapering 



