EPIDENDRUM. ( 38 ) OSMOPHYTUM. 
intis sub columnd —— callis duobus incurvis in appen- 
dicem hippocrepicam carnosam confluentibus, lobo column 
postico obtuso dente jueabnaienss subbifido anteposito. 
(A) virens, Sepals and ved green spotted with purple. Lip white 
with a crimson hors sailioe va mark. 
(B) coriaceum. Flowers — loured, — purple spots on the sepals 
and petals, and dirty purple stre ake on the ms 
E. coriaceum. sa , Bot. Mag., t. 3595. 
© crassilabium. Calli of the lip vaio and more downy. Leaves 
ore remote at the base. 
E. ade sie sagt and Endl., Nov. Gen., If. p. 1 
(D) leopardinum, Flowers yellow, called yee dark a re is at 
the point, Leaves long, nei like those of £, ti 
Wild in Troprcan America. A, Brazil 2 vasiinn: Loddiges; 
Rio Negro above Barcellos, common—Spruce, 1948; New 
Grenada—Funck and Schlim, 1435; B, Demerara—Parker ; : 
Jamaica—Purdie ; C, Peru— Mathews, 1886; trees and rocks 
in the primeval forests near the farm of Pampayaco — Poppig; 
, New Gre eee in the province of Ocafia, at the height of 
4950 feet—Schlim, 1010 0, (v. v. e. et 8. sp. 
See variable plant, realy ie by its very short sigs on the base of w 
laced a concav eallus, which 
gives the lip the appearane e of being divided hevieaially into two layers. On 
very strong specimens there are “occasionally three or four leaves on a 
pseudobulb. The flowers are e extremely fragrant. I am ——— = the 
es 
leaves of which are sometimes stric ctly oblong, as in Spruce’s ec A some- 
times strap- a and as much as a foot long. Péppig’s figure is accompa- 
nied by details which it would be difficult to find, cg he overlooks the down 
on the lip, which is a striking feature of the speci 
118. ee — H. G. Reichenbach, in Linnea, 
XXII. p 
get multifloro (14) bracteis se acutis, sepalis 
oblongis cuneatis obtusis, petalis subeequalibus minoribus, labello 
minuto ovato cuneato anticé nunc seat obeolotiasins trilobo callo 
w Wild in New Grenapa; Pamplona, at the height of 6000 feet ; 
January—Funck and Schlim, 1435, (Tch chb.) 
Leaves in pairs, long, acute, carinate. Nearly allied in lip, leaves, and 
column, to £, tigrinum co variegatum. Flowers yellow and white, flecked 
with purple, —Rechb. 
B. Spentiacet So G. Reichenbach, in Bot. Zeit. 
1852, se 731. 
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