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» EPIDENDRUM RADICANS.. 
[Puate 161. ] 
Native of Mexico and Guatemala. 
tal. Stems tall, erect, leafy,. terete, more or less tinted with purple, 
Epiphy 
leafless but vaginate for a considerable distance from the top, emitting long white 
roots opposite the leaves. Leaves fleshy, subcordate ovate-oblong, obtuse, emarginate, 
channelled, distichous, about two inches long, partially sheathing the stem. Peduncle 
terminal, erect, invested by appressed lanceolate sheathing bracts, smaller upwards, 
the pedicels with still smaller lanceolate bracts at their base. lowers numerous, in 
a roundish corymbiform raceme, highly coloured, each about two inches in depth ; 
sepals and petals lariceolate acute, spreading, the petals rather more narrowed at 
the base, deep bright cinnabar; ip adnate to the column, and projected forwards 
with it fully half an inch, keeled, the limb roundish in outline, deeply three-lobed, 
with a pair of calli at the base, the lateral lobes acinaciform, sharply toothed, the 
anterior lobe cuneate, deeply biparted, the segments with a fringe of long sharp 
teeth, entire at the sides, of a deep orange-scarlet, with a few bright crimson spots 
on the disk. Column terete, broader upwards. : 
EpmenpruM Rapicans, Pavon MSS.; Lindley, Genera and Species of Orchi- 
daceous Plants, 104; Id. Folia Orchidacea, art. Epidendrum, 220; Reichenbach Sil., 
in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Sytematice, vi., 300; Paaton, Magazine of Botany, 
xu, 145, with coloured plate. | 
EPIDENDRUM RHIZOPHORUM, Bateman, in Botanical Register, 1838, mise. 10. 
We follow our great Orchidological authorities, Lindley and Reichenbach, in 
adopting for this plant the name of Epidendrum radicans instead of that of 
E. rhizophorum, given to it by Bateman, and by which it is more familiarly 
known in gardens. It offers one of those cases in which, at the first, a name 
already bestowed has not been looked up, or has escaped recognition, an oversight 
which has to be corrected as soon as it is discovered. Dr. Lindley, it would 
appear, had seen, in Lambert’s Herbarium, an authentic specimen of Pavon's, and 
when the living plant came before him he recognised its identity therewith, and 
made the necessary emendation. 
Our present subject is one of the most distinct members of a very extensive 
genus, and one that is well worth cultivating for its ornamental qualities. There 
are few Orchids which yield the orange-scarlet colour found in this plant, and this 
makes it all the more welcome. The species is of scandent habit, and often attains 
the height of ten feet or more, the stems being generally trained around ‘sticks, or on 
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