EPIDENDRUM. ( 50 ) (umpettate) SPATHIUM. 
ovato cucullato indiviso basi 2- —* are aspera triangulari 
ass aoe cuniculo maximo ventrico: 
ild in PExv; on trees in the ae of Chachapoyas— 
Beathows, (v. 8. sp.) 
Very like E. geminiflorum, but the flowers are larger, more fleshy, and have 
a long distended - uch in front of the ovary. The lip is undivided, has only 
two calli, and in place of the rect teaeaad lamella there is a dull triangular 
space, covered with snes pera 
157. E. lacustre. 
E. foliis latis obtusis, spatha duplici suprema acinaciformi, 
racemo brevi umbellaformi, pedunculis ovariisque 4-pld longiori- 
bus, sepalis petalisque linearibus acuminatis patentissimis, labello 
subcordato-ovato acuminato obsoleté trilobo, callis baseos acutis 
lined. elevata interjecta. 
E. leucochilum. Lindl. Orch. Linden., no. 47, nec Klotzsch. 
Wild in VenezvuEta; on half-submersed rotten tree the 
es of Laguneta, in the — of Merida, at the height 
of — feet—Linden, 684, (v. s. sp.) 
described as being from three to — ae high, with the purest 
This 
= Acadia. They are — inches and a half across, and consequently 
g the largest in the gen 
* 158. E.leucochilum. Kiotzsch, in Allg. Gartenz., 11, p. 146. 
Ie. Plant. rar. berol., t. 46.  Pazxton’s Flower Garden, III. ; 
gleanings, no. 622, ic. 8038. 
E. foliis coriaceis obtusis, ‘spatha magna solitarié pedunculo 
longiore, umbella brevi cernud, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceo- 
latis — labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus magnis obliqué 
orbi intermedio ovali basi bicalloso lineisque tribus elevatis, 
iiuandieio cucullato truncato. 
E. flavidum. Lindl. Orch. Lind., no. 48. 
Wild in New Gnewav A; terrestrial in he cold region near 
inthe province of Pamplona the height of S00 
feet ; Ape —Thaden, 99 2213; Funck and Schlim, 1084; 
vince of Ocafia, near 8. Pedro, at the elevation of 6000 feet— 
Schlim, 743 ; Caraccas—B. Otto, at the height of 4500 feet, 
7 poi 
A very fine caulescent plant. Leaves coriaceous, oval, acute. Flowe 
green, with a snow-white lip. In Funck and Schling? s 1084, the calli at ps 
base of the lip are wrinkled, and seem almost three-lobed, and the spathe is 
no! quarters of an inch lo: WwW 
jane were published, I only knew this _ by the — character and 
ipti i rtenzeitung ; and I then supposed 
cones Ber i 
it to be different ss in oa now shows it to 
be. Under this nsion, when I found it gem Mr. Linden’s 
error 
Jaa _ so 1 "hug it new, and called it £. favidum, an 
