EPIDENDRUM. (78) (Umperrars) EUEPIDENDRUM. 
A singular species, with rac more than a foot long, covered with 
ese Pri d bracts wee half at an ane long. Flowers green, fleshy. Stem 
o to three feet high, 
243, E.imbricatum. LO., 71. 
E. caule ramoso, foliis distichis lineari-oblongis obtusis, spicis 
ovato-oblongis imbricatis, bracteis carinatis obtusis, sepalis peta- 
lisque ovatis acutis subsequalibus erectis, labello ovato acuto 
soackeld crenulato. 
Wild in Brazi; pendent from ze trees in the Organ 
Mountains—Garduer, 630, (v. s. 
Spike almost like a strobilus, two inches ee by one and a half inch broad. 
“ Flowers white.”—Gardner. 
244. E. bifarium, Swartz F1. Ind. Oce., ITT. 1509. LO., 69. 
E. foliis distichis cordato-lanceolatis acuminatis horizontali- 
bus, spicd terminali flexuos4, rachi ancipiti, bracteis spathaceis 
compressis falcatis acutis carinatis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis con- 
vexis, petalis brevioribus setaceis, labelli dilatati trilobi lobis 
lateralibus subrotundis integris intermedio bilobo. 
Wild in Jamatca—Mac Fadyen, 4; on the trunks of trees on 
the Blue Mountains; September—Swartz, (v. s. sp. in hb. 
Smith et Hooker.) 
Stem to four inches high. Flowers greenish white. Bracts somewhat 
lente, Kecled, cP long as the ovary. The only specimens . have seen of this 
n Mr, Smith’s herba ee from aay self, and in Sir William 
Hooke er's. Its wt xicaul fleshy somewhat fa sie a Pato and long — 
ancipitous zigzag spike, are sary different from anything else in the e gen 
C. PLANIFOLIA UMBELLATA. 
245. E.piperinum, Lindley, in Ann. Nat. Hist., XV. 256. 
_E. caule ramuloso, foliis distichis succulentis oblongis obliquis 
laxé revissimis te us subbi- 
fis sepalo dorsali petalisque filiformibus erectis lateralibus 
: ovato-lanceolatis carinatis_horizontalibus, labello cordato-ovato 
cochleato ecalloso venis radiantibus in margine confluentibus. 
Wild in Perv; on the road a Quito and the village of 
Machachi—Hartweg, 1419, (v. s. sp.) 
A small succulent species, when dried ‘sian netted. It looks like a 
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246. age Lindley, in Bot. Reg. 1845, mise. p. 66. 
Orch. Linden., no 
3 E, eaulibus ramosis is scaberrimis, foliis striatis ovato-lanceolatis, ° 
loribus 2—3 terminalibus sessilibus co: coriaceis, sepalis lineari- 
