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P L A T E XIII.
EPIDENDRUM COCHLEATUM.
Purpte flowered Epidendrum.
C L A S S XX. ORDER I.
GYNANDRI^ DIANDRIC. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives.
GENERIC
CALYX. Spathns vagae. Spadix iimplex. Perianthium
nullum.
COKOLLA. Pétala quinqué, oblonga, longiflima,
patentiffima.
Neóiarium ' bafi tubulatum, turbinatum,
intra pétala deorfum pofitum, ore obliquo,
bifido: fuperiori labio breviffimo, trífido;
inferiori in acumen produco.
STA.MINA. Filamenta duo, breviffima, piftillo
infidentia. Antherae teftae labio fuperiore
neftarii.
PisTiLLUM. Germen tenue, longiim, contortum,
inferum. Stylus'breviiliraus, adnatus
labio fuperiori neiStarii. Stigma obfoletum.
P E R I C A E P I U M . Siliqua longiíTima, teres, carnofa.
SEMINA numerofa, minutiflima.
S P E C I F I C
Epidendrum fcliis oblongis, geminis, glabris,
bulbo innatis; fcapo multifloro; nectario
cordato, purpureo.
CHARACTER.
EMPALEMENT. Sheaths fcattered. Fruit-lialk
fimple. Cup none.
BLOSSOM. Five petals, oblong, of a great length,
and fpreading much.
Honey-cuf tubular at the bafe, turban-
Ihaped, placed between the lower petals,
mouth oblique and divided: the upper
lip very fliort, cut into three divifions; the
lower terminating in a point.
CHIVES. Two very iliort threads, fixed on the
pointal. Tips covered by the upper lip of
the honey-cup.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud llender, long, twifted, and
beneath. Shaft very fliort, fixed to the upper
lip of the honey-cup. Summit blunt.
SEED-VESSEL. Pod very long, round, and
flefliy.
SEEDS numerous, extremely fmall.
CHARACTER.
Epidendrum with oblong leaves growing by
pairs, fmooth, rifing from the bulb; ftalk
many flowered; honey-cup heart-fliaped
and purple.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Bloflbm, wi thout the Honey-cup; difpofed to fliew the fituation of tlie Chives, and
Pointal, which are covered by the Honey-cup.
2. The Honey-cup.
' 3. The Tips.
4. The Summits.
OF all plants, none furniih a more agreeable fpeculation to the Botanift, than thofe of this clafs; the
fingular conftrudtion of the whole flower, leads the obferver to form analogous comparifons from it to
animal life: particularly amongft the Orchis, and Ophris, of our own country; where bees, flies, lizzards,
and butterflies are accurately fliaped in the honey-cup. The Genus Epidendrum, takes its Generic
title from its place of growth, being what Botanifts term parafitical, that is, growing on another
plant; which is the cafe, with moft of thefpecies of this Genus: yet is cultivated here with
fuccefs, by planting it in a mixture of rotten wood, and loam. A plant, from which this figure was
taken, was a prefent to MeiTrs. Lee and Kennedy from the Honourable Mrs. Barrington, who received
it from Dr. Dancer's botanical garden Jamaica, of which ifland it is a native; therefore muft be kept
in the ftove. It is propagated by dividing the bulbs. ,