EPIDENDRUM ATROPURPUREUM. 
[PuaTEe 149,] 
Native of Guatemala, Panama, and Colombia. 
EPIDENDRUM ATROPURPUREUM, Willdenow, Species Plantarum, 115,—f. Rehb. ; 
Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematicw, vi., 344, 
EpIpENDRUM MAcRocuiLuM,. Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 3534; Morven, 
Annales de Gand, 1846, t. 86; Lindley, Folia Orchidacea, art. Epidendrum, No. 79. 
EPIDENDRUM AUROPURPUREUM, Lindley, Genera and Species of Orchidaceous 
Plants, 99,—f. Rchb. 
CymBipium corpiceruM, Humboldt & Kunth, Nova Genera Plantarum, i. 341, 
—f. Rchb. 
The Epidendrums form a very large genus, among which rank some exceed- 
ingly beautiful species ; some, indeed, of them which have come under our notice are 
inferior to others in regard to their flowers, but there are those who like to cultivate 
them on account of their fragrance, which gives them an especial value in an Orchid 
house, and also when cut and mixed with other flowers. They do not like much 
shade, and therefore grow well on blocks of wood suspended near the glass, and 
as they flower in drooping panicles such a position suits them admirably. 
The species we are now figuring is one of the most beautiful, and there are 
also other good kinds which we hope to introduce at some future time. Some of 
them have most brilliant colours, as an example of which we may refer to Epidendrum 
vitellinum majus figured in our first volume, while E. bicornutum is a chaste pure 
white, for which we hope to find a place in the present volume. 
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