Plate 135 



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EPIDENDEUM NEMORALE 



Forest Uj)idendrum. 



Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Platk 109,) 



Epjdendrum (Encyclium^ § labello trilobo) nGmorcdej pseudobulbis ovatig^ foliis 2-3 ensiiunniljiis 



obtusls^ scapo pedicellis ovariisque verrucosis, paniculfi multiflora uutante, sepalis ])ctalisque 

 lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus subfalcntis ncutis nanis iutcrmcdio 

 ovali crenulato basi serrato bilamellato, columnas alis 2 nanis truncatis. LiivlL 



Epidendrum verrucosum. Lindl. Bot. Eerj. 1844. t. bl.non Llndl. Gen. et Spec. Bof. Bfifj. t. ifiOG, 



A veiT lovely species of Epidendrum of the Encyclia-group, fra^^ant as well as 



handsome, a native of Mexico, imported from that country- by Messrs. I.oddiges. 



it 



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eqiiires a moderately cool house, and flowers in the early summer months 



When Dr. Lindley published his figure of this species in the ' Botanical Register 



he unfortunately overlooked th 



fact of an old West Indian species havm 



dy published under the same name; but he subsequently discovered his mistake 



and chansred the name to nemorale 



& 



Descr. Fseudohulhs 



clustered, the flowering ones 



arrow-ovate, smooth, 



emains of tliera ; the 



Leaves two, from the 



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dark green, and more or less sheathed with scales or the fibrous 



older ones larger, paler coloured, broader, wrinkled, and naked. 



apex of the bulb, from ten inches to a foot long, broad-linear or loriform, onc-n nrred , 



obtuse. From the axil of these leaves the scaj^e arises, as thick as a goosequill and 



warted, except where it is covered with the sheathing bractcas, when nearly as long aa 



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leaves gracefully droopin 



g. 



and bearing a branching j[)anicle of larg 



Branches and ovary also minutely warted 



Sepals and fetals, each 



rhes 



than two inches 



long, linear-lanceolate, uniform, spreading horizontally. Lip more 

 long, pendent, three-lobed ; lateral lobes oblong, subfalcate, half-embrucmg the co umn ; 

 middle lobe obovate, subrhomboid, very large, acuminate, streaked and Imor wi 

 dark red, the margin crenulate, the disc white, bearing two lamellae. Column n? g 

 as the lateral lobes of the lip, deep lilac, with a short white wing on each side benca 



the anther 



Antlier-case hemispherical 



