EPIDENDRUM. ( 30 ) AULIZEUM. 
(B) euspi ceva Middle lobe of lip linear-lanceolate, not much longer 
than the latera 
E. ciliare. ie Mag., t. 463. 
E. aT Lodd. "Bot. Cab., t.10. Ker, in Bot. Reg., 10, t. hi 
sa 
(C) visci Leaf narrower, more channelled. Bracts — Mid- 
dle lobe of ofip setaceous, longer than the laterals. Flowers smaller 
scidum. Lindley, in Bot. Reg. 1840, mis 
Wild in Ss AMERI A, Colombia, on rocks near 
Guaduas on ry descent +o Honda, in the province of Bo- 
ota— Hart West Indies—Jacquin, Swartz, Hooke er; 
g 
Aariquite: Damen, 126; B, Dominica—Imray, in hb. Hooker 
C, Meio, on porphyry rocks near Oaxaca—Galeotti, 5087, 
(0. 0. ¢. et 8. sp-) 
Flowers et white, changing to straw-colour ; —— greenish ene? 
the lip. A careful examination of numerous specime both wild and ¢ 
w 
vated, satisfies me that no limits whatever exist sea Pp 
species. It is evident that the plant varies muc to das, 
and r i es ing a single — = forming a raceme a 
foot and a half g 28 flowers. It ap have 
sepals —— tee sek "OF the lip (Rchb.), but T pest not seen it in 
that state. 
* 91. E.faleatum. Lindley, in Taylor's Annals of Natural 
= Feb. 1840. 
E. caule ramoso carnoso membranis laxis imbricatis vaginato, 
foliis bade carnosis falcatis ovato-lanceolatis canaliculatis 
acutis, fasciculis florum sub-sessilibus, sepalis petalisque lineari- 
lanceolatis patentissimis, labelli tripartiti basi bituberculati laciniis 
lateralibus oblongis acutis dimidiatis integris intermedia lineari- 
lanceolata paulo longiore. 
E. lactiflorum. Richard ao Galeotti, Orch. Mex., no. 57. 
tiflo: 
E. Parkinsonianum. Hooker, in n Bot. Mag., t. 3778. 
E. aloifolium, Batema sh Mex. and Guat., t. 25. 
Wild in ae near ilies on rocks and loose stones— 
ition (v. 
A species with a. since ort stems, long segeemee= feshy faleate 
leaves, and large pale yellowish flowers, springing from within a long pale 
yellowish membranous spathe. The number of flowers varies from two 
to four or more in each spathe. 
* 92. E. viviparum. Tindl., in Bot. Reg. 1841, mise. 27. 
E. caule fusiformi diphyllo “pedunculo elon; - squamato 
pluriés Sensis, foliis oblongis horizontalibus obtusi ; 
paucifloro, bracteis spathaceis canaliculatis ovario cuniculato 
eequalibus, sepalis petalisque linearibus acumin 
laciniis lateralibus aN 
labelli trilobi basi _bicallosi 
rhomboideis intermedi lineari | spathulata acuminata convexd 
