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P L A T E DCLXV.
e p i d e n d r u m fragrans.
Sweet-scented Epidendrum.
CLASS XX. ORDER L
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
NECTAEIUM turbinatum, obliqvium, reflexum. H O N E Y - C U P top-shaped, oblique, and reflexed.
See PL XIII. Vol. I. Epidendrum cochleatum.
EPIDENDRUM folio lanceolato bulbo innato, scapo
abbreviato raultlfloro, lamina labeUi cordata
acuta.
JVildenow's Sp. PISPECIFIC
CHARACTER.
EPIDENDRUM with a lance-shaped leaf upon the
bulb, with a short stalk, many-flowered.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement, chives, and pointal.
2. The honey-cup.
THIS species of Epidendrum is an old inhabitant of the hot-house, and much esteemed for the fVal
l e l f its flowed and the o n , one at present .nown to us (the
L g l e l e a f . It is enumerated in the S p e c i e s Plantarum of WiUdenow, as descnbed bySwartz, but
we do not find that any figure of it has before been published.
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