Plate 109. 



EPIDENDEUM PRISM ATOCARPUM 



Frism-fruited Epidendrum. 



Gen. Char. Sepala patentia, subsequaliaj Tateralibus basi baud productis. Fetala mine con- 

 formia et aequalia, nunc diversissima, Lahellmn unguiculatum, cum colnmnft parallelura ct omnino 

 V. parte connatum : limbo integro v. diviso, basi Bsepius callo duplici, costa v. tubcrculo nunc in- 

 terjectis instructo; nunc verisimiliter in calcar productum, pedicello imraersnm idcoquo columiif^ 

 cuniculum formans. Columella elongata, cUnandrio marginato ssepe fimbriato, semitores ecuruls, 

 basi ssepius caniculata. Pollinla 4, coriacea, aequalia, compressa; eaudiculU tctideiu replioatis; 

 glanduld libera nulla. Anthem carnosa, 2-4 -1 ocularis.— Herbas epi^ilytoi xVmcricsB calidions, mnic 

 terrestres. CauMs nunc pseudohulbosus nnnc elov<jnf us, foUosus. Folia carnoaa rarian'me vmh ch: 

 vatis striata. Flores soUtarii, sj)katl, racern.;-^:, cori/mbusl, vel paniciiIaH, tcrminahs vol lat^rtth'^, 

 scepius siccati coriacn J r«phihiis farcti. Llndl, 



Epidendkum prismatocarpum ; pcdnnrulo elongftto niultifloro, ovoi-io abbreviate triptcro, Bopalii 



petalisque ligulato-lanceolatis n cutis, labullo unguiinlalo cordate acuminate ntrinque t-btu^e 

 auriculato, cristd bicruri liucu Interjecta lauccelata, clinandrii nppondice qundmtA Iridrafal*.. 

 Lindl. 



Epidendkum prismatocarpum. II. Q. Rcichcnhach, in Boi. Zeil. 1852. p. 720. Bol. Mn.j. t 5330. 



Undl. Fol. Orclud. Epldcndr. p. 9. n. 23. Warnrr, Select, Onhld. t. 9. 



Epidenduum Uro-Skinncri. Hvrtulan, 



This peculiar-looking species of F^i 



hare been cultivated in 



some gardens under the name of E. Uro-Skinncri, but is undoubf-dly, as Dr. Lindley 

 points out, identical with the plant figured in the r,ot. Zeit. for 1352,^vhcrc it M-as pub- 

 lished from dried specimens under the name oiE.pismatocarj^rm, so named on account 

 of the three sharp angles or wings of the ovary. It is an inhabitant of Chiriqui, Ycra- 

 gua, Central America, and is one of the many interesting discoveries of the botanicul 

 traveller Warszewicz. Reichenbach, who appears to have cxamin.d an inferior variety, 

 says that the "flowers are small, and lip brown, dotted;" but such is not thccnsein the 



living plants cultivated in this country. 



E. prismatocarpum, which is one of the very br-st of its ^ar.^ is readily jrrown if 



kept too warm ; the temperature of the Cattkya-houFo ^rrvM 



I 



flowers in May and June, lasting a very long time in beauty. M.-rc TI I>ow and Co 

 Mr. Reed of Burnham, Somerset, and the Bislir.p of Winch p'^tcr, ham all flowered th 

 plant in great perfection. 



