EPIDENDRUM. ( 40 ) OSMOPHYTUM. 
a ; Para—Loddiges. B, Guatemala— 
Skinner, (v. v. c. e¢ 8. sp.) 
extremely fhageat le green or cream-colour, with crimso 
: grow y &. 
variety, but merely a diminutive og The variety B is remarkable for its 
gigantic dimensions, which it retains i in cultivation 5 the ——* are ribnes: = 
eighteen inches long. 
* 123. E. glumaceum., Lindley, in Bot. Reg. 1840, ¢. 6. 
E. pseudobulbis ovatis apice angustatis diphyllis, foliis angusté 
oblongis patentibus, racemo terminali cylindraceo € spathis glu- 
ace 
Wild in Braztz; on the branches of Vellozia one. on the 
summit of the Pedro Bonito Mountain, comm Gardner, 
243 ; Equ  aeseteres ae v. ¢. et 8. sp. in be ‘Fos ker.) 
d euw.p. 
This has the t gt He pedir from which it differs in 
the colour of its flowers, which are white d with pink, and striped with 
rose, in the long tapering figure of the aie 3 AU. by the peculiar 
form of the sepals and petals, — in the shape of the lip, which is convex not 
concave, obovate, and acumi 
* 124. E. inversum. Lindley, in Bot. Reg. 1839, mise. 185. 
EK. pseudobulbis diphyllis elongatis compressis, foliis oblongo- 
loratis obtusis, spicd terminali sub-6-flora basi spathaced  bracteis 
brevibus ovatis acuminatis, ovario triquetro, sepalis petalisque 
patentibus lineari-lanceolatis convexis subzequalibus, labello ovato 
acuminato basi levi medio sulcato callis 3 obsoletis, columnd 
obtusé 3-dentata, anther cardinis appendice oblong denticulata. 
Wild in Braztt; on the Crescentia—Martius; in the Minas 
=a gren, 776, (v. v. c. et s. sp.) 
Flowers with a few purple streaks on the column and a 
pa e base of ‘thet es ae a heavy not very pleasant smell, something like that of 
ar to it. Itdiffers from Z. glwmaceum in the colour and 
ts flowers, and I believe in the calli of the lip, but the specimens 
of that denis at my disposal do not enable me to describe them accurately. The 
species are, however, no doubt distinct. 
= 
* 125. E. calamarium. Lindley, in Bot. ees 1838, mise. 163. 
E. pseudobulbis derecho ovalibus diphyllis, foliis linearibus 
planis abrupté acutis, racemo simplici erecto, bracteis minutis 
acuminatis, sepalis patentissimis linearibus acutis apice recurvis, 
__ petalis aula ahaa tears lnhello: postico subrotundo 
cuto convexo basi pubescente, callo duplici lato apice confluente. 
