Refugium Botanicum. | [ November, 1872. 
‘TAB. 138. 
Tribe EpIDENDREX. 
Genus Erpipenprum, Sw. 
EB. Avicuua, Lindl. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 11. 85! 1841. Lindl. Folia, 
Epidendrum, No. 184! Walp. Ann. vi. 860! Rhizomate valido 
viridi multi-articulato polyrrhizo scandente seu repente, radici- 
bus adventitiis filiformibus flexuosis nunc ramosis, torulosis, 
multiflexis, pseudobulbis subdistantibus ovoideis, vix anci- 
pitibus, nune subtetragonis, defoliatis incrassatis, vaginis 
baseos triangulis acutis, foliis evolutis ternis seu quaternis 
laminis ligulatis apiculatis, seu cuneato-ligulatis acutis, seu 
cordato-triangulis acutis inferne carinatis, pseudobulbis junior1- 
bus teretibus, vaginis atrobrunneis, pseudobulbis adultis cica- 
tricibus foliorum demum obscuris, pedunculo racemoso seu 
paniculato, cum bracteis (extus), ovariis pedicellatis et sepalis 
(extus) albido-velutinis, papillis simplicibus tubulosis (fig. 11), 
squamis in basi pedunculi nune paucis bractezformibus evo- 
lutis, nune nullis, bracteis triangulis trinerviis scariosis, ovarils 
pedicellatis multo brevioribus, usque dimidia ovaria pedicellata 
eequantibus, sepals triangulis acuminatis, lateralibus ima basi 
connatis, tepalis lineari-lanceis uninerviis, labello cuneato 
rhombeo acuminato utrinque obtusangulo, venis ternis mediis 
a basi in medium incrassatis, denticulo utrinque in basi con- 
fluente superaddito, columna trigona subcompressa, andro- 
clinio ascendente rostello semiannulato, fovea semilunari, 
anthera depressa, loculis oblique superpositis. Sepala intus 
et extus hyalino-cuprea. Tepala, labellum et columna viridi- 
flava seu virida. Alabastra mire cum ovaria angulata avis 
caput simulantia, ill. Lindley forsan nomen dederunt (fig. 1). 
The discovery of this pretty plant appears to have been made 
by the late Gardner! so early as 1838. It is indicated by 
Dr. Lindley, on Gardner's account: Organ Mountains, forming 
dense tufts on the stems and branches of trees, April, 625. From a 
memorandum in my herbarium it would also appear to have been 
gathered by Gardner near Pernambuco. I am, however, not sure 
of the authority. All the Gardnerian specimens I have seen or 
possess are mere miserable dwarfs, when compared to the beautiful 
specimens: Minas Geraés, Regnell! The plant appeared some 
years ago both in the gardens of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., and 
