EPIDENDRUMS 515 
P. MACULATA (spotted). Pseudo-bulbs as in the last; flowers 2 
inches across, white, the lip striped and blotched with purple; November. 
Introduced from Khasia, 1837. 
P. PR&COX (early). Pseudo-bulbs as in the last; flowers 3 inches 
across, light rose-purple, lip with a bright yellow disk and a few red spots ; 
fragrant, usually solitary. Var. wallichiana has flowers of a darker 
shade of purple; November. Introduced from Khasia, 1837. 
Pleiones require treatment somewhat similar to that 
advised for Calanthes, with the following modifications :— 
They should be grown in a sunny greenhouse ; they require a compost 
of fibrous peat, sphagnum, leaf-mould, and sand; they should be repotted 
about a week after the flowers fade; and they are best grown in 9-inch 
pans, planting them about 2 inches apart. 
Cultivation. 
EPIDENDRUMS 
Natural Order ORCHIDEZ. Genus Hpidendrum 
EPIDENDRUM (Greek, epi, upon, and dendron, a tree). <A genus of about 
four hundred species of stove and greenhouse plants, of which, however, 
comparatively few are cultivated, on account of the smallness and 
dinginess of their flowers when contrasted with those of some other 
genera. Most of the species are epiphytes, as the name suggests, 
though many of them grow in the ground. In some the stems are long 
and leafy, in others reduced to pseudo-bulbs. The leaves are strap- 
_ shaped and leathery, and the flowers are solitary or in spikes, racemes, 
or panicles. The characteristic feature is found in the partial union of 
the fleshy base of the lip with the edges of the elongated column. The 
base of the lip is traversed by a passage closed at one end. There are 
four equal pollen-masses. They are natives of Tropical America. 
EPIDENDRUM CILIARE (fringed). Pseudo-bulbs oblong ; 
leaves in pairs. Flowers fragrant, several in a raceme, 
greenish yellow, except the three-lobed lip, which is white and fringed ; 
winter. Native of Tropical America. Introduced from West Indies, 
1790. Stove. 
E. NEMORALE (woodland). Pseudo-bulbs oval, 3 to 5 inches high; 
leaves in pairs. Flowers 3. inches across, in large drooping panicles, 
delicate mauve or rosy-lilac, lip striped with violet; sepals and petals 
lance-shaped. Introduced from Mexico, 1840. Should be grown in 
stove, with full exposure to sun. 
Principal Species. 
