CYRTOPODIUM PUNCTATUM. 
[PuaTE 202. | 
Native of the West Indies, Mexico, and Brazil. 
Terrestrial. | Stems cylindrical, slightly compressed, three feet high, or more, 
leafy at top, and covered below with sheathing bracts, which leave annular scars 
on the surface when they fall away. Leaves six or eight from the upper portion 
of the stem, curving, linear-lanceolate attenuately acuminate. Scape tall, erect, 
springing from the base of the stem, three to four feet high, terminating in a 
dense corymbosely branched panicle, spotted with purple-brown, and ips at the 
ramifications lanceolate acuminate wavy bracts, which are yellowish green, thickly marked 
with transverse bars of brown, similar to the markings on the back of the sepals 
and petals. Flowers numerous, about two inches across, exceedingly attractive from 
the profusion in which they are produced; sepals spreading oblong-lanceolate wavy, 
yellow, closely barred with bright chestnut-brown, the outer surface similarly but 
more faintly barred on yellowish green ground; petals oblong obtuse, slightly wavy, 
clear bright yellow, with a few pale red spots in the central part, and more 
numerous smaller ones at the base; Jip with an angularly bent claw, deeply three- 
lobed, yellow, the two lateral lobes obovate cuneate incurved, with a broad crimson 
margin, the middle one broadly obcordate, emarginate undulated, having the mar, 
dotted with crimson, and closely tuberculate, the disk slightly dotted, and ban ed 
with purple, and having a crest of pale yellow granules collected into a circle in 
the centre. Column yellow-green, produced between the two basal sepals. 
Cyrtopopium punctatum, Lindley, Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, 
188; Id. Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 12; Hooker, Botanical Magazme, t. 3507. 
EPIDENDRUM puNcTATUM, Linneus, Species Plantaram, 1349. 
We are much gratified to have the opportunity to figure this noble plant, for 
we may safely assert that it is one of the most noble of Orchids when it is 
grown into a fine specimen, in which condition we have seen it exhibited in former 
years, now long ago. We are glad, however, to be able to state that the Orchid 
growers of the present day are beginning to realise that this grand er 18 
worthy of attention. Since the drawing was made, from which our figure 1s taken, 
we have seen another wonderful specimen, with branching flower spikes, more than 
four feet high, bearing one hundred and seventy-five expanded flowers, forming a 
magnificent panicle! This was grown in the collection of E. J. Partington, Esq., 
Heaton House, Cheshunt, Herts/ under the care of Mr. Searing, the gardener, who 
had brought this plant to a high degree of perfection. Our readers must, from 
its portrait, judge for themselves whether this Orchid is worth growing or not. It 
may attain to a greater height than some other subjects, but it is quite worthy of the 
