Refugium Botanicum.| [October, 1872. 
TAB. 111. 
Tribe EpIpENDRES. 
Genus EpmpENDRUM, Sw. 
HK. Xipueres (Rchb. fil. in Van Houtte, Flore des Serres, ix. 98! 
Seemann, Bonplandia, ii. 89! Walp. Ann. vi. 884!) Radicibus 
mediocribus levibus undulatis deflexis, pseudobulbis ovoideis 
seu pyriformibus, vaginis junioribus distichis ochraceis, limbo 
brunneo, cito in fibras solutis, monophyllis seu diphyllis, foliis 
linearibus optime mucronatis, tele cartilaginee, canaliculatis, 
nervo medio in dorso prominulo, usque octo pollices longis, vix 
tres lineas latis, pedunculo elongato levi, parce minuteque 
vaginato, apice distanter racemoso, paucifloro, bracteis tri- 
angulis brevissimis, ovariis cum pedicellis hyalino-papillosis, 
sepalis ligulato-linearibus acutis, tepalis angustioribus basin 
versus valde attenuatis, labello sublibero unguiculato trifido, 
lacinus lateralibus ante basin exsertis linearibus acutis, lacinia 
media unguiculata trulliformi seu subcordiformi, margine 
crispula, linea mediana ex lineis ternis incrassatis minutissime 
punctulato-furfuraceis, in disco unguis confiuentibus excavatis, 
venis lateralibus incrassato-elevatulis, columna eracili trigona 
medio constricta, androclinio minuto tridentato. Sepala 
brunnea ego vidi, lineis extus supra neryos cinnamomeis ; 
tepala brunnea, labellum et columna flaveola. Artifex noster 
sepala brunneo-aurantiaca, tepala magis flavida pinxit. 
I obtained this species in 1853 from Messrs. Booth at Ham- 
burgh: ‘imported from Peru.” I never saw anything more of it 
until 1868, when I finally found a plant and a sketch at Mr. 
Saunders’s, Hiullfield House, Reigate, the plant having been 
obtained from New Grenada. It is always a great satisfaction for 
an author to see a plant, established long since, but which has 
not been observed for some time, at last reappear. 
Roots middle-sized, hairless, undulated, deflexed. Pseudobulbs 
ovoid to pyriform when young, with distichous ochraceous sheaths 
with brown borders, soon resolved into fibres, one or two-leaved. 
Leaves linear, very conspicuously mucronate, of a cartilaginous 
texture, canaliculate, the middle nerve prominent on the back, 
reaching to eight inches in length, scarcely three lines broad. 
