EPIDENDRUM VERRUCOSUM. 
(Warted Epidendrum.) 
Class. Order. 
GYNANDRIA. MONANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
ORCHID ACE^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx wanting. Corolla with 
ve ohlong spreading petals. Labellum without a horn 
t the base, tubular, embracing the column, with a 
road, erect plate. Column terete, placed below the 
srmen, gibbous. Anthers concave. Capsule oblong, 
aree-sided, one-celled, three-valved. Seeds numerous, 
xtremely minute, roundish. 
Specific 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 
equire to he told how extensive a genus Epidendrum is ; but many of our readers 
aay not be aware that it comprehends more species than any other in Orchidacece. 
Ipwards of one hundred and forty are enumerated in the most recently-published 
atalogues ; and they do not contain all known, new species being continually 
iscovered. Many are not more interesting than our native weeds, others are curious 
nly ; such, and the former, are valuable in a botanical point of view alone. On the 
ther hand, numerous species are highly valuable, both from their scarceness and as 
eing amongst the most beautiful of the tribe. Our pages hear satisfactory testimony 
) this fact. 
The form of vegetation in the genus varies very considerably ; a great number 
ave pseudo-bulbs of the form of true bulbs, surmounted by a pair of long, linear 
saves, from within which rises the flower-stem, in some a few inches high only, 
'he pseudo-bulbs of others are, as well as the leaves, very large, varying from the 
ame shape to being greatly elongated, their foliage leather-like, in some instances 
ven horny, and the flower-stems often feet in length. Various of the more uninte- 
esting, in place of pseudo-bulbs have long leafy stems, with their inflorescence borne 
t their summit, in the panicle and branched-spike figure ; in colour being of various 
hades of green, brown, and dirty white. The colour of the flowers of the better 
bids is varied, as may be learnt from our figures. Many species have a very agree- 
ble 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 
