The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . This species is rather tender, with a handsomer foliage thanother Carolina Allspices, but without their delicious fragrance.It is more an object of botanical than horticultural interest. Itflowers in June and July. 12. Epidendrum coriifolium.* A native of Central America, presented (o the Society byG. U. Skinner, Esq. This singular plant is, in all its parts, of a ton^h, thick, leatherytexture, and is generally glazed, as it were, with a shining exuda-tion. The narrow stiif leaves are blunt, about 6 inches long,concave, with a sharp midrib.
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The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . This species is rather tender, with a handsomer foliage thanother Carolina Allspices, but without their delicious fragrance.It is more an object of botanical than horticultural interest. Itflowers in June and July. 12. Epidendrum coriifolium.* A native of Central America, presented (o the Society byG. U. Skinner, Esq. This singular plant is, in all its parts, of a ton^h, thick, leatherytexture, and is generally glazed, as it were, with a shining exuda-tion. The narrow stiif leaves are blunt, about 6 inches long, concave, with a sharp midrib. The spike, which is terminal, andabout 4 inches long, consists of hard amplexicaul keeled bracts * E. coriifolium (Euepidendrum); foliis angustis coriaceis subdistichiscarinatis concavis obtusis, spica densa terminali, bracteis coriaceis carinatisherbaceis distichis ovario longioribus, sepal is lateralibus crassis carinatisovalibus, petalis linearibus spathulatis, labello subrotuiido piano emarginatoper medium calloso. FROM THE SOCIETYS GARDEN. 219. Epidendnim coriifolium. pressed close to the flowers, and forming a kind of cone beforethey expand. The flowers are pale green, very firm and leathery, 220 ^KV ILAXTS, KTC, with a broad roundish convex lip, having an elevated callosityalong the middle. The lateral sepals, which are particularlythick, have a serrated keel at the back. It is a species of no beauty, nearly related to Ep. rigidum, but its leaves are much longer and narrower, and the flowers 3or 4 times as large, and extremely coriaceous. It flowers inMarch or April in the stove. 13. Ceanothus cuneatus. Nuttall, inTorrey andGrai/s Floraof North America, vol, i. ]). 267.