SPATHIUM. (umBeLLaT®) ( 51) EPIDENDRUM. 
159. E. longifloram. Humb. et Kunth. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pi., I. 
354. L0., no 
E. foliis ‘aan obtusis, racemi nutantis pedunculo spatha 
maxima breviore, sepalis geek ogre ig ree acumi- 
natis margine revolutis, labelli tripartiti laciniis lateralibus ovatis 
obliqué truncatis revolutis : intone 4 lineari cuneat& mucro- 
nat margine revoluta dupl6 longiore, callis 2 lineisque 3 elevatis. 
Wild in aig neo ta on the slope of Mount Puruguay, a 
lofty poin e Andes near the village of Aguacillas, at the 
—- ot 3860 "dock-—Haiobolts and Bonpland; Popayan, 
ar the village of Sotara—Hartweg, (v. s. sp.) 
A most noble plant, with ac flowers more than four inches across. 
Some of the leaves are about a foot long. 
ec. Spatha subsimplex. Flores paniculati. 
160. E. tovarense. H. G. Rchb., Linnea, XXII. p. 838. 
KE. spatha brevi acuta carinata (? ), panicula vanciflot brac- 
teis minutissimis squamzeformibus acutis, sepalis oblongis obtusis, 
petalis subeequilongis basi cuneatis, labello trilobo lobis lateralibus 
semiovatis aliquid cuneatis basi bicallosis medio cuneato rotundato 
anticé emarginato margine hinc inde minuté denticulato. 
Wild in Cotomata ; Tovar—Moritz, 851, (2chb.) 
Leaves few, rather long, sharp-pointed. Flowers white, pink on the out- 
side.—Rchb. 
ae mesomicron. 
E. fli brevibus ee obtusis, racemo basi subpaniculato 
é spatha brevi obtusa, bracteis linearibus acutis patulis, floribus 
carnosis, sepalis oblongis petalisque linearibus acutis, labelli 
trilobi Jaciniis lateralibus rotundatis serrulatis intermedia parva 
carnosa ovaté per medium obtusé carinaté, callis baseos 2 acutis 
2que minoribus exterioribus, clinandrio margine tenui cincto. 
Wild in Boutvia—Bridges, (v. s. sp.) 
Stem a foot leng. Leaves five inches long by one inch and a half broad. 
Flowers when dried black and brittle. The five calli are remarkable ; that 
in the middle being large, deep, and reaching to the L weep: of a middle lobe 
oe those next it free at the point, and the o very 
162. E. amplexicaule, 
vaginis scabris, foliis oblongis implecion hee: acuminatis 
papyraceis, panicula laxa cernua flexuosa, a tha angust& pedun- 
culo longiore, bracteis linearibus acuminatis herbaceis ovario 
