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LIST OF ORCHIDEiE. 
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148. Epidendrumvirescens. (Derived from pale green.) Plant destitute 
of bulbs; leaves alternate up the stem, placed in the same form as the Iris, 
and of a pale green colour ; flowers proceeding from the summit of the shoot, 
of a green and yellow colour. This species will either do on a clump of 
wood or in a pot, provided there is a free drainage. It does not require 
much water when growing, and a temperature of 65° to 70°.— Native of 
Brazil. 
149. Epidendrum equitans. (Derived from the leaves being folded upon 
one another.) This plant is much similar in growth to the above, only 
rather more robust; the leaves are more compressed and acuminated; the 
scape is naked, and the raceme is spiked, proceeding from the summit of the 
stem; flowers are pale yellowish green, but of no beauty. It requires the 
same treatment and temperature as the above. —Native of Mexico and the 
Society Islands. 
150. Epidendrum nutans. (Derived from nodding.) Plant destitute of 
bulbs; stems simple, nearly three feet long; leaves ovate, lanceolate, alter¬ 
nate up the stem ; spike terminating the summit, nodding ; flowers greenish 
white ; the labellum 3-lobed ; the middle lobe S-toothed. This species re¬ 
quires pot culture in a mixture of turfy peat and sphagnum, and to be 
liberally supplied with water while growing; temperature, 70°- Native of 
Jamaica. 
151. Epidendrum ciliare. (Derived from the labellum being fringed.) 
Plant destitute of bulbs; stems one foot long; leaves in pairs, oblong, and 
veinless; flower spike produced from the summit, and, supporting eight 
or ten flowers ; the sepals and petals are pale green ; labellum white, 3-lobed, 
the middle one linear, with the two outside lobes ciliate or fringed. This 
species also requires pot culture, with the same kind of soil, and plenty of 
water while growing; temperature, 65° to 70°- Native of Martinico. ^ 
152. Epidendrum aurantiacum. (Derived from its flowers being orange- 
coloured. ) Plant with bulbous stems ten inches long; leaves in pairs; 
flowers rather small, produced from a short spike; the sepals and petals 
orange, with the labellum a little darker. It is also known as Cattleya au- 
rantiaca, but I find it differs a little from that genus in the generic character 
of the flower; but the plant is so similar in growth that it might be easily 
taken for one. It requires the same treatment and temperature, but rather 
a longer resting season. — Native of Honduras. 
153. Epidendrum Barringtonice. Plant pseudo-bulbous; bulbs greenish 
white, ovate, slightly compressed, and a slight furrowed surface; flower- 
stalk, five inches long, erect; sepals and petals greenish, the apex of an olive 
brown, the two innermost the smallest, and the two lower lengthened out at the 
base and united into a short black pouch, the lip of the nectary ai'ising from 
the back part of the inside of this pouch; it is somewhat shorter than the 
petals, covered on the upper side with an oblong, yellowish, deeply furrowed 
callosity, heart-shaped in front; its margin is 3-lobed, the lateral lobes small, 
acute, entire, erect, and transparent, terminating^in a rusty brown, and beau¬ 
tifully fringed all round the margin; column white, elongated at the base, 
connected by its back to the pouch of the corolla and by its fore part at the 
bottom to the lip of the nectary, incurved and blunt at the top, behind ob¬ 
tusely keeled, flat, and with two slight furrows before; stamina red, close 
together; antheras red, two on each filamentum, ovate, yellow; stigma 
large, very much excavated ; germen somewhat longer than the pouch of the 
flower, green, nearly cylindrical, with six furrows. This is a valuable species, 
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