EPIDENDRUM VERRUCOSUM. 
Class. 
GYNANDRIA. 
(Warted Epidendrum.) 
Natural Order. 
ORCHIDACE JE . 
Order. 
MONANDRIA. 
Generic Character.— Calyx wanting. Corolla with 
five oblong spreading petals. Labellum without a horn 
at the base, tubular, embracing the column, with a 
broad, erect plate. Column terete, placed below the 
germen, gibbous. Anthers concave. Capsule oblong, 
three-sided, one-celled, three-valved. Seeds numerous, 
extremely minute, roundish. 
SpECiFrc Character. — Pseudo-bulbs ovate. Leaves 
sword-shaped, obtuse. Scape with the pedicels and 
ovaries warted. Racemes nodding. Sepals and petals 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Labellum three-lobed ; 
lateral lobes subfalcate, acute ; middle one oval, cre- 
nulated, with two ridges at the base. Column with 
two wings, truncate. 
Orchid growers, who have an extended acquaintance with the family, do not 
require to be told how extensive a genus Epidendrum is ; but many of our readers 
may not be aware that it comprehends more species than any other in Orchidacece. 
Upwards of one hundred and forty are enumerated in the most recently-published 
catalogues ; and they do not contain all known, new species being continually 
discovered. Many are not more interesting than our native weeds, others are curious 
only ; such, and the former, are valuable in a botanical point of view alone. On the 
other hand, numerous species are highly valuable, both from their scarceness and as 
being amongst the most beautiful of the tribe. Our pages bear satisfactory testimony 
to this fact. 
The form of vegetation in the genus varies very considerably ; a great number 
have pseudo-bulbs of the form of true bulbs, surmounted by a pair of long, linear 
leaves, from within which rises the flower-stem, in some a few inches high only. 
The pseudo-bulbs of others are, as well as the leaves, very large, varying from the 
same shape to being greatly elongated, their foliage leather-like, in some instances 
even horny, and the flower-stems often feet in length. Various of the more uninte- 
resting, in place of pseudo-bulbs have long leafy stems, with their inflorescence borne 
at their summit, in the panicle and branched-spike figure ; in colour being of various 
shades of green, brown, and dirty white. The colour of the flowers of the better 
kinds is varied, as may be learnt from our figures. Many species have a very agree- 
able fragrance. 
Of the botanical features of E. verrucosum, Dr. Lindley has the following : — 
" It is not very nearly related to any kinds hitherto discovered : belonging to the 
