EPIDENDRUM BICORNUTUM. 
[PuatEe 157. ] 
Native of Trinidad and Demerara. 
Epiphytal. Stems elongate, nearly a foot high, fusiform, furrowed, the younger ones 
leafy at the summit, the older ones marked by the cicatrices whence the leaves have 
fallen. Leaves ligulate, oblong, distichous, coriaceous, channelled scarcely striated, about 
four or five in number, of a darkish green colour. Pedwncles terminal on the mature 
stems, supporting an erect dense raceme of about twelve (sometimes eighteen) flowers; 
the rachis green, the pedicels white with a small acute purplish bract at their base. 
owers large, very fragrant, the scent being described as resembling that of the 
Persian Iris ; sepals lanceolate acuminate, about one and a half inch long, the 
dorsal one pure white, the lateral ones with a few purple dots; petals broadly 
ovate, cuspidate, as long as the dorsal sepal, white; lp lanceolate, three-lobed, 
white spotted with purple-crimson, contracted below the lateral lobes which are 
oblong acute; the central portion of the elongate lance-shaped middle lobe, and the 
sides of the lateral lobes towards the base spotted with purple, sessile, broader than 
the base of the column, with two yellow triangular hollow fleshy horns standing 
erect on the disk. Colwmn white, projected over the horns, semiterete, dilated, 
and somewhat winged upwards. 
EPIpDENDRUM BIcoRNUTUM, Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 3332; Paaton, Magazine 
of Botany, v. 245; Lindley, Folia Orchidacea, art. Epidendrum, No. 82; Jennings, 
Orchids, t. 21. 
We are glad to be able to bring under notice one of the most beautiful and 
distinct of this comprehensive genus, and one which has been but seldom seen of 
late years, Formerly it used to appear at our London exhibitions, and we 
ourselves exhibited it for many years at Chiswick and the Regent’s Park shows, 
taking prizes with the same plant for several successive years; indeed, it was 
always admired by Orchid growers. Since then it has lost none of its charms, and 
When grown like the plant from which our drawing was taken, it will still hold its 
position as one of the most ornamental of the Epidendrums. Sometimes it gets 
discarded in consequence of some supposed difficulty in its cultivation; we, however, 
have found no difficulty in growing it, when we have beeh fortunate enough to 
get the plant to break after it is imported. It is one of those which are difficult 
to import, as the front eyes are apt to damp off, and the bulbs to crack. We have 
seen large lots of this plant imported, of which only a few have succeeded. This 
is to be regretted, as it is a plant that is in every way worth all the care that 
can be bestowed upon its cultivation. There is a great deal of pleasure in being 
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