48 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (FEBRUARY, 1913. 
EPIDENDRUM ENDRESII. 
EPIDENDRUM Endresii, here represented, is one of the most charming little 
Orchids imaginable, but, unfortunately, it has become very rare in 
cultivation. It is a native of Costa Rica, and was discovered by Endres, 
who, however, failed to send it home alive. Some few years after, the late 
Consul F. C. Lehmann succeeded in transmitting a few living plants. It 
was described by Reichenbach in 1883 (Gard Chron., 1883, i. p- 432), and 
was afterwards figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 7855). The stems are 
about six to nine inches high, with verrucose sheaths, and the flowers are 
Fig. 17. EprpENDRUM ENDRESII. 
whitish Mp with a little purple on the lip and column. Very little is 
known about its habitat, except that it is a mountain plant, and we suspect 
that the loss of the plants, which a correspondent deplores, is due to their 
having being grown in too much heat. Some time ago we saw it grown 
with success at Harefield Hall in the Odontoglossum ‘house, and Mr. 
Ashworth considers that this is the most suitable climate for it. Hybridised 
with Epidendrum Wallisii it yielded the pretty little E. Veitchii, and this 
is said to have been recrossed with E. Endresii by Messrs. Sander, yielding 
a batch of seedlings showing remarkable variation, and. including forms 
with purple, yellow, and spotted segments (O.R., Xiv., p. 181). 
