EPISTEl'HIUM. 



39f 



£• WENDLANDIANUM, Krdiizlin. — A new species named in tonour of Herr 

 Wendland of Herrenhausen, near Hanover. " The flowers rise one to three on 

 each flower-stalk, and are of a very bright colour. The sepals and petals are light 

 green, the labellum is snowy-white, with dark pm-plish lines on the side-lobes ; 

 the gynostemium or column is likewise coloured dark purple. The diameter of the 

 flower is nearly 2 inches ; the labellum has two small side lobes, and a much larger 

 cordate mid-lobe, with three elevated veins in the middle, and a hairy cushion at 

 the base" (Kranzlin, in Gardeners' Ohronirlc, 3rd sfv., 1893, xiv. p. 58). — Me:ricu. 



E. XANTHINUM, Liiidl. — A very haudsomo plant, flowering for a very long 

 time ; it belongs to the set which is destitute of pseudobulbs. Stem slender terete, 

 some 2 or 3 feet high, and bearing distichous fleshy leaves, which are oblong and 

 deep green. The umbel of flowers is terminal and many-flowered, sepals and 

 petals somewhat oblong ovate, nearly equal, spreading, clear bright yellow ; li]) 

 three-lobed, all deflexed, and prettily fringed with toothed edges, rich yellow, 

 bearing an orange-yellow fleshy tubercle ;it the base. Blooms in the winter 

 months. — Caraccas. 



EPISTEPHIUM, Kimth. 



(Ti-iic Neottieae, snltriha Vauilleae.) 



A genus of terrestrial 

 Orchids allied to Sohralia, from 

 which it differs by the sepals 

 being free, and surrounded at 

 the base by a shallow-toothed 

 calyculate rim, those of Sohralm 

 being connate, and having no 

 rim at the summit of the ovary. 

 They are erect- growing, with 

 rigid coriaceous nervose leaves, 

 and showy flowers in terminal 

 racemes. Some half-dozen 

 species from Tropical South 

 America are known tobotanists. 



Culture. — Being a terres- 

 trial species, the crowns shotild 

 not be elevated above the rim 

 of the pot. They succeed best 

 when potted in fibrous loam and 

 sand, and must have good drain- 

 age as they require a liberal supply of water ; they will do well in 

 Cattleya house. 



EPISTEPHIUM WILLIAMSII. 



