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PLATE CCCCXLI.
EPI DEN DRUM FUSCATUM.
Brown-jiowered Epidendrum.
CLASS XX. ORDER L
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointals. Two Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
N E C T A R I UM turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum. HONEY-CUP top-shaped, oblique, and reflexed.
See PI XIII. Vol. I. Epidendrum cochleaturn.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
EPIDENDRUM, foliis lanceolatis, caulem vagina
álteme tegentibus, contortis, atro-purpureo
discoloratis; floribus umbellatis ternainalibus
fuscatisj leviter punctatis, vel striatis.
EPIDENDRUM, witli lance-shaped leaves, alternately
sheatliing the stena, twisted, and
discoloured with a deep purple : flowers
terminate the branches in umbels, of a
brownish colour, dotted or striped.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The nectary, or honey-cup.
3. The blossom detached.
3. The seed-bud, chives, and pointal, the hood lifted up that covers the chives.
4. The same magnified.
AMONGST this numerous parasitic tribe there are many whose claim to beauty is by no means powerfill,
and certainly the present figure has little to boast of in that particular: but the singular and curious
structure of their flowers will always render every new species and even distinct varieties desirable, particularly
as they are an essential connecting link in the interesting family of the Orchidia;. We were
at first inclined to regard it as the E. fiiscatum of Dr. Smith on rare plants; but on comparison with
that figure we found it in foliage nearly the same, but so different both in the size and colour of its
flowers, that, if it might be regarded as a variety, it must certainly be a very distinct one. It is a
native of Jamaica, and as such requires the protection of the stove. From a plant plunged in the tanbed
our drawing was made at the gardens of G. Hibbert, esq.