EPIDENDRUM. 125 



H inches across, bright cinnabar-red, except the lip and column which 



are orange yellow ; sepals and petals stellate, broadly lanceolate, acute ; 



lip narrower and shorter than the other segments, linear-oblong, thickened 



in the middle where there is a raised line. 



Epidendrum vitellinum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 97 (1831). Id. l^crt. Orch. 

 t. 45 ^1838). Id. Fol. Orch. Ep. No. 4. Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 35. Bot. Mag. t. 4107. 

 Paxt. Mag. Bot. V. p. 49. Illus. hort. 1. t. 4 (1854). Van Houtte's Fl. dcs Sevres, X. 

 t. 1026. 



var. — majus. 



Pseudo-bulbs shorter and thicker, i.e., more truly ovoid. Scapes shorter, 



erect with a denser raceme of larger flowers with broader segments 



that are more brilliantly coloured. 



E. vitellinum majus, Veitch, Fl. Mag. t. 261 (1866). Jennings' Orch. t. 31. 

 De Puydt Les Orch. t. 20 (copied from Fl. Mag.). Williams' Orch. Alb. I. t. 4. 



Epidendrum vitellinum majus. 



The typical Epidendrum vitellinum first became known to science 

 from a specimen preserved in Mr. Aylmer Lambert's herbarium, which 

 is said to have been collected by Dr. Coulter, in 1830, on the high 

 mountains near Xalapa, in Mexico ; it was shortly afterwards gathered 

 by Karwinsky, and later by Galeotti on the Sierra of Oaxaca, at 

 6,000 — 7,000 feet elevation, and subsequently by Mr. G. Ure Skinner 

 in Guatemala. The first living plants received in England were 

 collected by Hartweg on the Cumbra of Totontepeque, and the first 

 to flower in England was one in Mr. Barker's collection at Springfield, 

 near Birmingham, in 1839. A few years later some plants were received 

 at Kew from Oaxaca, which flowered in the Royal Gardens in 1844. 

 E. vitellinuin continued to be comparatively rai-e in European gardens 

 till M. Roezl some twenty years later collected a considerable quantity 

 of the variety majus, which he succeeded in sending to Europe in good 



