EPIDENDRUM. 393 



deep green; the umbel of flowers is terminal, many-flowered; flowers flat and 

 spreading, about 1| inoli across ; sepals narrow oblong-aouminate ; petals much 

 broader, obovate, acute, all bright rose colour ; lip somewhat obovate, notched in 

 front, joined to the column at the base, where it is white, in front of which is a 

 blotch of rosy-purple, the remaining portion being of the same bright rose as the 

 petals. Flowers in the winter months.— Fewe^iteZa, at 3,0Q0 feet elevation. 

 Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 3^10. 



E. SYRINGOTHYRSUS, lichh. f. — A tall-growing and extremely handsome 

 cool house species, the moderately slender tufted stems of which attain a height 

 of 3 to 4 feet, and are clothed with distichous sheathing elliptic-lanceolate 

 recurved leathery leaves, which are about 6 inches long, and of a light green 

 colour. The flowers are produced in dense ovoid racemes, which bear from 

 seventy to eighty flowers on long slender pedicels, which are of a reddish- 

 purple like the flowers, the sepals and petals being small elliptic-lanceolate, and 

 the small three-lobed lip white on the disk with three tumid yellow calli, and of 

 the same reddish-purple as the rest of the flower in front. — Solivia, elevation 

 7,000.to 8,000 feet. 



Fia.—Jiuf. Mag., t. 6145. 



E, TOVARENSE, Rchh. f. — A pretty dwarf-growing species with erect stems 

 about 12 inches high ; raceme terminal, few flowered ; flowers white, pink on the 

 outside. — Tovar, U.S. of Colombia. 



E. URO-SKINNERll.— See E. puismatocabpum. 



E. VARIEGATUM CORIACEUM, lAndl.— This represents a form of a pretty 

 and very variable species, and one that may be best known by its downy lip. 

 It requires the temperature of the intermediate house. This variety difEers 

 from the species in having leathery leaves, and in the sepals and petals being 

 creamy-white, dotted with purple ; lip also cream-coloured, streaked with dull 

 I^urple. Winter months. — Denwrara. 



'PjGr.—Bot. Mag., t. 3595. 

 Syn. — E. coriaceum. 



E. VERRUCOSUM, Swartn.—This, plant must not be confounded with the 

 E, verrucosum of Lindley, which is the E. nemorale. Lip three-lobed, side lobes 

 creamy- white, front lobe yellow, with a very bright spot of violet at the base. 

 Flowers in spring and early summer. — Ouatemala, near the coast. 



E. VERRUCOSUM, imcJi.— See E. nehokale. 



E. VIRGATUM, Lindl. — This species is merely introduced to warn some of 

 our readers against buying it for E. mtellinum, to which it bears much 

 resemblance in its growth, but it is more glaucous, whilst the flowers are small, 

 of a dull green and brown. "We recently saw this plant in a collection which had 

 been bought for E. vitellimim majus, and it gave great dissatisfaction upon, 

 flowering, and no wonder. It is said to grow upon the ground, amongst Fteris 

 aquilinn, on the Ooban Mountains. — Mexico. 



