EPIDENDRUM. (76) (Equrrantra) EUEPIDENDRUM. 
Wild in Brazizr—Loddiges, (v. v. ¢.) 
Leaves covered with . — ete imbriecated, and more like inflated 
carinate bracts than true leaves. Flow eenish white, with the — 
vary having an pvned oe semi- pamagaves blister near its middle. This 
blister is in fact the lower extremity of the cuniculus, 
* 237. E. equitans. Lindley, in Bot. Reg. 1838, misc. 76. 
E. caule folioso ancipiti, foliis equitantibus ancipitibus lanceo- 
latis elongatis acuminatis, flore solitario terminali pendulo, pedun- 
culo ancipiti, = diphylli foliolo inferiore erecto foliaceo 
flore longiore, sepalis linearibus acuminatis patulis, petalis con- 
formibus pauld brevioribus, labello sabe daacanlato trilobo 
complicato cum column4 basi connato medio trilamellato ; lobo 
medio carnoso semitercti recurvo lateralibus erectis membranaceis 
integris. 
Wild im Mexico; Vera Cruz—Hartweg, (v. v. ¢.) 
In habit resembles Fernandezia. Flower dull chocolate-brown. 
B. PLANIFOLIA SPATHACEA, 
. E.ram Jacq. 8 221, @ 132. Swartz, 
Fl. Ind is if 1505. “£0; nO. 
EK. fruticosum, ramosum, foliis Tears obtusis emarginatis, 
racemis terminalibus laxis flexuosis paucifloris, bracteis cucullatis 
obtusis ovario sisi gioribus, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis petalisque 
linearibus acutis serciniboas, labello subcordato ovato acuto con- 
cavo rigido. 
aa eer Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1600. 
los ramosum. Spreng. ‘Syst. ITT., 734. 
Wild on trees in the West InprIEes, common; DremErara— 
Parker; Frencn Guayana—Mélinon, 116; Mexico, rocks 
and trees —§000 feet near Oaxaca, on the Pacific side— 
Galeotti, 5034; Brazil, i Dindiletiess Miers, (v. 8. sp.) 
Stem shrubb: woes dichotomo Flowers smal nish epg 
It varies in the size of i In Si ir William Hooker's herbarium 
a ae specimen diiieay! 179), with mares two inches long by half an Feti 
igi Jacq. Amer. 222, t. — Swartz, Fl. 
Ind. Dee HII. 1507. LO., no. 70. Hook. it, 
E. caule subsimplici foliis distichis nee obtusis, 
spice: flexuosee rachi ancipiti, bracteis foliaceis dolabriformibus 
carinatis ovarii longitudine, sepalis coriaceis ovatis obtusis patenti- 
bus | ibus majoribus, petalis lmearibus membranaceis, labelli 
