EPIDENDRUM. (24)  (Hymenocuma) ENCYCLIUM. 
Wild in Mexico; on ig mountains of Mechoacan, and near 
Valladolid—La Llav 
Pseudobulbs large. Flowers small, scentless, pale yellow, with a white lip. 
Seems very like Z. varicosum, but the leaves are said to be a foot long. 
* 73. E.ionosmum. Lindley, in Bot. Reg. 1838, mise. 87. 
K. pseudobulbis diphyllis scapo apice simplici racemoso bre- 
vioribus, sepalis petalisque coriaceis obovatis concavis obtusis 
subaqualibus, fabelli trilobi liberi lobis lateralibus elongatis erectis 
oblongis columnam amplexantibus apice rotundatis denticulatis 
aged subrotundo emarginato- TUgOso- crispo, callo disci 
duplici elevato altero angustiore apici propiore, columna acuté 
auriculata. 
Wild in DemErarna—Loddiges, (v. v. c.) 
The b —— are rather Lnknd a dull reddish green, with the lip delicately 
streaked with deep lilac. The odour that of the sweetest violets 
near £. ig apa No. 26, from shiek its emarginate not acute ‘lip seems to 
distinguish it. 
* 74, E. pyriforme. Lindley, in Bot. Reg. 1847, ¢. 50. 
KE. pseudobulbis obpyriformibus aggregatis diphyllis, foliis 
coriaceis lanceolatis acutis scapo subbifloro longioribus, sepalis 
etalisque lanceolatis acutis, labelli lobis Veterans subrecurvis 
acutis integerrimis intermedio subrotundo — retuso, callis 
2 maximis parallelis apice subliberis in unguem 
Wild in Cusa—Loddiges, (v. v. ¢.) 
ves unusually thick and fieshy, about four inches long, on little pseudo- 
bulbs, which look like inverted pears. Notwithstanding its diminutive 
stature, the flowers are fully two inches and a half in diameter, with reddish 
yellow sepals and petals, and a pale straw-coloured lip veined with crimson. 
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* 75, E.bifidum. Audiet. LO.,17. Bot. Reg., t. 1879. 
Redouté liliae, t. 84. 
lineam ele ae producto. 
Helleborine fl. papilionaceo. Plum. ic. 186. f. ha 
E. parece West. edo ruz. 230, 
E. pr acon Willd. sp. pl. 115. 
Wild in the West Inpizs ; Hispaniola—Plumier ; St. Christo- 
pher’s, St St. Bartholomew’ s—Swartz; St. Thomas S aestetd 
