EPIDENDRUM. 123 



above and below, di-triphyllous. Leaves oblong - lanceolate, obtuse, 



6 — 9 inches long. Racemes longer than the leaves, many flowered. 



Flowers fragrant, 1 — 1| inches in diameter ; sepals and petals narrowly 



obovate - oblong, pale yellow, sometimes yellow - green blotched with 



purplish brown, the j^etals smaller than the sepals; lip very short, cordate, 



acute with two raised longitudinal lines, and a downy callus at the 



base, bright rose colour, but sometimes white spotted with rose. 



Epidendruni variegatum, Hook. Bot. Mag. i. 3151 (1832). Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, 

 t. 11. Id. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 117. E. crassilabium, Poeppig. E. pachycephalum, 

 Klotzsch. E. pamplonense, Rchb. 



var. — coriaceum. 



Stems shorter and thicker ; leaves broader, shorter and more leathery. 



Flowers light yellow spotted with red-brown, the lip paler than the 



other segments. 



E. variegatum coriaceum, Lindl. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 117. Flor. de Cristo, viUg. 

 E. coriaceum, Bot. Mag. t. 3595. 



Widely distributed over South America and the West Indies. It 



is said to have been originally discovered by the French naturalist, 



Descourtilz^ near Ilha Grande, in Brazil, growing on fallen trees 



fully exposed to the sun. It was subsequently gathered by Mr. W. 



Harrison, near Rio de Janeiro, and sent by him to his brother at 



Liverpool, in whose collection it flowered in 1832. In the course 



of the next twenty years it was detected by various explorers and 



plant collectors near the Rio Negro in Brazil, in New Granada, 



British Guiana, Jamaica, and other places. It is one of the most 



variable of Epidendra, a circumstance that may be accounted for 



by its great diversity of station throughout its extensive habitat. 



Specimens collected in many localities widely remote from each other 



were compared by Dr. Liudley, who was persuaded that the various 



forms were only varieties of one and the same species, some of 



which he distinguished by name, but they are now known only in 



herbaria with the exception of coriaceum, which was first introduced 



from Demerara in 1837 ; it is very distinct, and is in cultivation in 



the Royal Gardens at Kew, and at Flotbeck Park, near Hamburg, 



E. varicosum. 



Encyclium. Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, 2 — 3 inches long, prolonged at the 

 apex into a slender di-triphyllous stem, 4 — 6 inches long Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 6 inches long. Peduncles erect, dull purple, 12 — 18 

 inches long, racemose along the upper half. Flowers about an inch in 

 diameter ; sepals and petals brown, the former linear-oblong, tlie latter 

 linear-spatliulate ; li}» flesliy, (piadrate in outline, 4 cleft, varicose, white 



