P L A T E CCXVI.
E P I D E N D R U M S I N E N S E.
Chinefe Epidendrum.
C L A S S XX. ORDER I.
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives.
E S S E N T I A L G E N E R I C C H A R A C T E R.
N E C T A R I U M t u r b i n a t u m , o b l i q u u m , r e f l e x u m . || Honey-cup top-fhaped, oblique and reflexed.
See P l a t e X I I I . Vol. E E P I D E N D R U M COCHLEATUM.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R.
E p i d e n d r um foliis enfiformibus, n e r v o l i s , r a d i c a - || E p i d e n d r um with fword-thaped leaves, nerved,
l i b n s ; n e f t a r i o revoluto, p u n c t a t o ; petalis
flriatis.
a n d f g r o w i n g f r om the r o o t ; honey-cup rolled
b a c k , a n d d o t t e d ; petals ftriped.
R E F E R E N C E T O T H E P L A T E .
1. A flower, one of t h e petals and t h e h o n e y - c u p cut off; to f h ew t h e fituation,
a n d p l a c e of (he p a r t s of fructification.
2. T h e H o n e y - c u p,
3 . T h e Seed-bud, Shaft, Summit, and C h i v e s ; the fmall hood w h i c h covers the
C h i v e s , lifted up.
' P H I S l o n g genus of p l a n t s , fo l i t t l e k n o w n h i t h e r t o , b u t in our books, bids fair to become one of t he
greatefl o r n a m e n t s of our h o t - h o u f e s ; 20 fpecies we already e n u m e r a t e , in the different collections in
t h e v i c i n i t y of L o n d o n ; one of w h i c h , t h e prefent p l a n t , has not flowered in t h i s kingdom, till t h i s y e a r,
a l t h o u g h i n t r o d u c e d , lb l o n g ago as 1 7 9 3 , b y the late J . Slater, Efq. of L a y t o n - f t o n e ; at the fame time
w i t h t h e t w o v a r i e t i e s o f t h e D o u b l e C a m e l l i a , f r om C h i n a . O u r figure was t a k e n in September 1 8 0 1,
f r om a plant w h i c h had been placed in t h e fpring of (he fame year, in t h e Confervatory built on p u r -
pufc for t h e p r o t e c t i o n of C h i n e f e p l a n t s , a n d w h e r e t h e y flourilh to a d e g r e e , n o t feen before in this
c o u n t r y , i n t h e g a r d e n of G. H i b b e r t Efq. C l a p h am common. It is p r o p a g a t e d by offsets, from the
r o o t ; is r a t h e r a h a r d y h o t - h o u f e p l a n t ; a n d t h r i v e s mofi in a m i x t u r e of l a n d y loam, a n d p e a t ; about
o n e fourth of t h e l o a m , a n d t h r e e f o u r t h s peat, or leaf-mould.
U p o n t h e firfl obfervation of this p l a n t , we were i n c l i n e d t o t h i n k it t h e fpecies dcligned by T h u n -
b e r g in h i s I c o n . P l a n t . J a p o n . 2 8 , u n d e r (he G e n u s Limodorum ; and afterwards, altered by him, in
t h e Liuiicean T r a n f . Vol. ii. p . 3 2 7 , to E p i d e n d r um t l r i a t u m . But upon clofe e x a m i n a t i o n of it, a s a u -
fwerjng his d e f e r ! p r i o n s , Htc. we c a n n o t b u t t h i n k i t , i f not a d i r l'erent fpecies, a t lealt a very ffrong var
i e t y of his p l a n t ; wherefore, we have r e t a i n e d t h e name it is i n common k n o w n by, in the various
c o l l e c t i o n s in w h i c h we h a v e fecn i t . If w e were t o d e c i d e o n t h e f u b j t c t , it i h o u l d b e t o place both
t h a t a n d this p l a n t again to L i m o d o r u m ; to w h i c h , t h e y hold g r e a t e r affinity than to E p i d e n d r um ;
b u t i n d e e d , we have a n o p i n i o n , that o n e t i t le might readily fcrve for t h e p l a n t s c o n l t i t u t i n g b o t h genera.