EPIDENDRUM. ( 56 ) (Porycrapia) AMPHIGLOTTIUM. 
A. POLYCLADIA. 
a. Panicula effusa pyramidalis. 
* 173. E. nutans. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Oce., I. 1499; Hooker, 
Fixot. Bot., I. t.50. LO., no. 44. 
E. foltis oblongis distichis undulatis obtusis, panicula divari- 
cata nutante multiflora ramis basi spathaceis, sepalis oblongo- 
lanceolatis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis obtusis patentibus, labelli 
trilobi lobis lateralibus subrotundis intermedio transverso truncato 
apiculato basi bicalloso venis tribus elevatis. 
(B) dipus. Middle lobe of ip, lip divided into two linear arms. Flowers 
brownish green with a white 
E. dipus. Lindley, in Sao 1845, t. 4 
Wild in the Wust Inprss ; cueniaban on the west of Jamaica 
—Swartz; B, Brazit, in rocky places—Von Martius, 
(v. v. ©. et 8. sp.) 
Flowers sweet-scented in the evening, quite green in i mt but wand 
green and white in B, which ties a shorter and more compact infloresce 
and a differently shaped lip, but which I do not now roped as a species, 
174, E. paniculatum. 7. Peruv. Syst., p. 243. LO., 61. 
E. foliis oblongis acuminatis, pedunculo vaginis acumina- 
tissimis membranaceis vestito, paniculé composité divaricata, 
bracteis pedicello brevioribus, sepalis oblongis, petalis filifo ormibus, 
labelli quadrilobi Jaciniis posticis brevibus semicordatis obtusis : 
anticis lmearibus divaricatis, callis duobus lineisque 3 brevibus 
elevatis contiguis. 
E. leve. Lindley, in Bot. Reg. 1844, p. 17. 
= es Leaves very acuminate. Front lobes of lip very long 
cy prrenial Leaves oblong, suddenly cuspidate. 
Wild in Perv ; Popayan—Hartweg: New Grenapa—Funck 
and Schlim, 1448; Schlim, 68; Vunezveta—Funck and 
Schlim, 732 ; Caraccas—Linden, 616; B, Penu—Maclean ; 
Bourvia—Bridges ; es Pr o--Mathewe: (v. 8. sp.) 
A noble species ; its pan which . = or nine — _~ rag nearly 
a foot broad, being pe sare with flow It is common all over tropical 
So erica, varying with a more or hae dense caaeee e in the 
colour of the flowers, which are sai der a white lip (732), or 
ae (68 and mek and very sweet-scented. ‘The ro w ound 
cim seems to be pani tal. 
‘iling forms act I have seen are the varieties B and C. 
175. z. fastigiatum. 
E. fol is angusté o olongis 1 
