EPIDENDRUM. 
( 78 ) (Spathacea) EUEPIDENDRUM. 
on the side of Tolima, at the height of 6000 feet; February 
—Linden, 1279, (v. s. sp.) 
A singular species, with racemes more than a foot long, covered with 
distant leafy bracts full half an inch long. Flowers green, fleshy. Stem 
from two to three feet high. 
243. E. imbricatnm. BO., 71. 
E. canle ramoso, foliis distichis lineari-oblongis obtusis, spicis 
ovato-oblongis imbricatis, bracteis carinatis obtusis, sepalis peta- 
lisque ovatis acutis subsequalibus erectis, labello ovato acuto 
obsolete crenulato. 
Wild in Brazil ; pendent from large trees in the Organ 
Mountains—Gardner, 630, (v. s. sp.) 
Spike almost like a strobilus, two inches long, by one and a half inch broad. 
Flowers white.”— Gardner. 
244. E. bifarium. Swartz FI. Ind. Occ.,111. 1509. LO., 69. 
E. foliis distichis cordato-lanceolatis acuminatis horizontali- 
bus, spica terminali flexuosa, rachi ancipiti, bracteis spathaceis 
compressis falcatis acutis carinatis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis con- 
vexis, petalis brevioribus setaceis, labelli dilatati trilobi lobis 
lateralibus subrotundis integris intermedio bilobo. 
Wild in Jamaica —Mac Eadyen, 4; on the trunks of trees on 
the Blue — • —- 
Smith et Hooker i) 
Stem two to four inches high. Flowers greenish white. Bracts somewhat 
falcate, keeled, as long as the ovary. The only specimens I have seen of this 
are in Mr. Smith’s herbarium, from Swartz himself, and in Sir William 
Hooker’s. Its amplexicaul fleshy somewhat falcate leaves, and long naked 
ancipitous zigzag spike, are very different from anything else in the genus. , 
245. E. piperinum. Lindley, in Ann. Nat. Hist., XV. 256. 
E. caule ramuloso, foliis distichis succulentis oblongis obliquis 
obtusis laxe vaginatis, peduneulis brevissimis terminalibus subbi- 
floris, sepalo dorsali petalisque filiformibus erectis lateralibus 
ovato-lanceolatis carinatis horizontalibus, labello cordato-ovato 
cochleato ecalloso venis radiantibus in margine confluentibus. 
Wild in Peru ; on the road between Quito and the village of 
Machachi—Hartweg, 1419, (v. s. sp.) 
A small succulent species, when dried beautifully netted. It looks like a 
Peperomia. 
246. E. tolimense. Lindley, in Bot. Beg. 1845, misc.p. 66. 
Orch. Linden., no. 29. 
E. caulibus rarnosis scaberrimis, foliis striatis ovato-lanceolatis, 
floribus 2—3 terminalibus sessilibus coriaceis, sepalis lineari- 
