EPIDENDRUM. ( 54 ) (mpricatm) SPATHIUM. 
obtusis, petalis lmearibus, columna sigmoided, labelli lobis 
carnosis integerrimis lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio 
cuneato bilobo rotundato, callis 2 maximis lineisque tribus elevatis 
quarum intermedia major. 
Wild in signee a. (v. s. sp. comm. cel. rene 
a long, broad, acute. os ten, wane imbricated, forming a 
heath nine sl long in in the specimen before me, just as i n E. ion 
Pal fleshy in a short raceme scaawaly longer than’b broad. 
169. E. discoidale, 
E. foliis ellipticis acutissimis, racemi brevis pedunculo spathis 
pluribus equitantibus acutissimis breviore, floribus carnosissimis, 
bracteis minutis apice setaceis, pa oblongis _ ARR petalis 
linearibus canaliculatis, Jabelli transversi circularis lobulo termi- 
nali truncato callis 2 acutis ae intermedia clevat. 
Wild in Domrytoa—Dr. Imray, (v. s. sp. in hb. Hooker.) 
i. one to one — a half foot high. — six — long. Flowers 
an in £. nutans, their an inch long. In the centre ” 
the Ii is a oe dull — which seems to 0 be connected with some _ 
liarity of colour, t dry specimens. 
Much like £. Clow weal, gate a stouter plant, with flowers very much cree, 
and a widely different lip. 
* 170. E. Clowesii. Bateman, in Bot. Reg. 1844, misc. p. 16. 
E. foliis lanceolatis acutis racemo basi spathaceo erecto longi- 
oribus, bracteis minimis mucronatis, floribus carnosis, sepalis 
oblongo-linearibus, petalis filiformibus reflexis, labelli _lobis 
subundulatis ebbitilédan intermedio bilobo majore, callis 2 minutis 
cum lineis duabus elevatis lateralibus confluentibus lined inter- 
media abrupté cis apicem evanida. 
ohne in GuaTeMaLa—Bateman, (v. v. c.) 
Although i = ba only a of this plant which I have seen, the spathes 
are 
of the Sime leafy state that is required for a Spathian 
Epi on which account I formerly placed it among Amphiglotts, yet 
nity to Z. discoidale that : am iev' pecimen 
it has so close an affinity led to believe my 5: 
to a? the Fi svc which xist are imperf which 
condition get 8 a leafy ch 
stem is ‘heat vafy sere asey its goers length. leaves are nearly six inches 
long. The raceme short with about fifteen flowers ; ~ a being 
enclosed in several equitant spathes. adres yellowish w s four to 
five lines long, their stalk about the same length. I formerly ees entea ea 
calli, which are small and not easily distinguished from the raised lateral lines 
which proceed from them. 
—— E. xantholeucum. H.G. Rehb., Linnea, XXII. p. 839. 
racemo recurvo multi- 
acutis, 
x 0 = tusis cuneatis, 
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