EPIDENDRUM. 389 



E. PHOENICEUM, Lindl. — A rather pretty species, with roundish ovate pseudo- 

 bulbs, a pair of erect narrowly oblong leathery leaves, and a scabrous panicle 2 to 

 3 feet high, bearing good sized scentless flowers, of which the obovate lanceolate 

 sepals and petals are purple, and the roundish undulated emarginate lip is of a clear 

 bright rose with deep coloured veins and stains in the centre. It blooms duiing 

 the summer months. The variety vanillosmum, which is the same as E. Orahami, 

 differs in being vanilla-scented, and in having a white lip spotted with rose. 



Fig. — Seit. Orch., t. 46 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., ix. p. 97, with tab. ; Flvrr (let Scrreii, 

 t. 47 ; Id., t. 306 (var. xanillosmum') ; Bot. Mag., t. 3385 (^Grahami}. 



Syn. — E. Graliami. 



E. POLYBULBON, Sivartz. — A beautiful dwarf growing plant, not exceeding 

 2| or 3 inches in height. The small pseudobulbs are about J inch high, and are 

 produced on creeping rhizomes, each carrying two linear-oblong leaves about 

 1 inch long ; flowers f inch in diameter having narrow linear sepals and petals 

 of a purplish hue with yellow margins ; lip pure white. It appears to be very 

 free flowering, at least a specimen exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 

 before the Eoyal Horticultural Society on January 16th, 1894, was literally 

 covered with flowers. — West Indies; Mexico. 



Fm.—IIooJi,. Ex. FL, ii. t. 112 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4067. 



E. PRISMATOCARPUM, Rchh.f.—A strikingly handsome Orchid, well-marked 

 in character, and deserving of general cultivation. It is robust in habit, and has- 

 pyriform slightly furrowed pseudobulbs tapered upwards, and crowned with twO' 

 or three ligulate evergreen leaves a foot long. The scapes are erect, produced 

 from the top of the pseudobulbs, and each bears a raceme of about fourteen flowers,, 

 which have oblong-lanceolate acuminate sepals and petals, pale creamy-yellow 

 with large dark purple blotches, the column of the same creamy yellow, and the 

 narrowly triangular free part of the lip rose colour margined with pale yellow. 

 It blooms in June and July, and will last several weeks in perfection. There ate 

 several varieties of this species. — Central America: Cliiriqui. 



Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 5336 ; Xenia Orch., 11. t. 123 ; Warner, Set. Orch. PL, i.'p. 9 ; 

 Batem. Second Cent. Orch. PI., t. 109; Beichenbachia, ii. t. 76; Zinde7t'a,\. t, 200 ; 

 Veitch's Man. Orch. PI., vi. p. 112. 



Stn. — E.inaculatiiiii ; E. nigro-maculatiim ; E. Uro-Skinncri. 



E. PRISTES, lickKf. — "A slender plant, with the habit of E. cllipUgum, 

 but with larger and very bright flowers ; the pedicels are white at the base, 

 cinnabar at the top ; sepals lanceolate, petals equal, but serrate on the superior 

 half, all cinnabar red ; lip tri-fid as described in diagnosis, finest yellow, with a 

 few cinnabar spots" (Eeichenbach in Gardeners' Chronicle, n.s., 1886, xxvi.p.262). — 

 Native country not stated. 



E. PSEUDEPIDENDRUM, Rchh. f. — A very distinct and striking species, 

 producing rather scanty terminal racemes of lovely flowers. It has long repd- 

 like stems 2 to 3 fept high, cylindrical with a tumid base, and bearing near 

 the top the distichous linear-oblong acuminate leaves, which are leathery, dark 

 green, and about 6 inches long ; the terminal few-flowered racemes have very 

 slender peduncles and pedicels ; the flowers are 2J inches in diameter, with the 

 narrow spathulate sepals and narrower petals of a bright green, and the lip 

 1 inch broad, nearly orbiculate, retuse, with the margin yellowish and seri-ulatCj 

 rich orange-scarletj.tha, disk traversed by five keels and having a throe-lobed 



