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E P I D E N D R U M ERUBESCENS:
B T . U S I I J N G E P I D B N D R V M .
E. erubesccm ; cauHbus brevibus (?) foliosis, foHis ovato-lanceolalis acuminatis paniculù laxù multiflorà
5-plo brevioribus. Sepalis ovali-Ianceolatis, petalis ktioribus spakilatis labelli Irilobi lobis lateralibus
rotuudatis intermedio multò majore reniformi.
Habitat in Oaxacà, KARWINSKI ; in Mexico, GALEOTTI.
3 3 C S C I ' I I ) I I O I I .
STEMS probabfi/ short, and bearimj but few ovate-lanceolate acvminate LEAVES, two or three
inches lomj. PASICLE terminal, imialli/ compound, and sometimes risinp to the height of a foot
and a half, bearing a multitude of large Jiowers, supposed to he of a rosy hue throiiffhoul. PEDICELLS
longer than the Jlowers. SEPALS nearly an inch long, oml-lanceolate, much narroivcr than
the spatnlate PETALS. LIP about the same length as the sepals, united to the column at its apex,
and three-lobed, the lateral lobes being short and rounded, and not half the size of the inteiincdiate
one, which is kidney-shaped, and half an inch long.
CULTB'ATORS w-ill be disappointed to learn that this superb Ejndendrum is at present known only
by dried specimens belonging to the Royal Herbarium at Municli. Tlie tlowers, although faded, still retain
a rosy lint, and when fresh couid scarcely have been arrayed in less attractive hues tJian tliose in which
Miss DUAKE has ventured to portray them: but whatever their precise colouring may have been, tliere
can be no doubt that the species to M'hicli tliej^ belong may take rank mnong tlie very linest plants of its
tribe. It was accordingly made a special object in the instructions of the various collectors who have been
sent from time to time to ransack tlie forest treasures of Oaxaca, but neither IlAiiTWiiO nor Ross (who
closcly followed KAIIWINSKI'S steps) succceded in discovering its reti-eat, Signor GALKOTTI was more
fortunate, but tlie plants which he transmitted to Paris have, it is to be feared, entirely perished. But let
us hope that as this species, independently of its beauty, belongs to a section of the genus which is usually
of the easiest growth, renewed exertions will be made to introduce it into our stoves.
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