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PLATE CCCCXLV.
E P I D E N D R U M LINEARE.
Linear-leaved Epidendrum.
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CLASS XX. ORDER I.
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTER.
NECTARIUM turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum. HONEY-CUP top-shaped, obliqnej and reflexed.
See PI. XIII. Vol. I. Epidendrum cochleatum.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
EPIDENDRUM, foliis linearibus, caulem vagina
alterne tegantibus, apice crenatis : floribus
terminalibus, spicatis, alternatis, purpuréis;
caulis juncinus, longus, gracilis.
EPIDENDRUMJ with linear leaves, alternatelysheathing
the stem, and notched at the end:
flowers terminate the branches in a spike,
alternate, and purple : stem rush-like,
long, and slender.
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R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The blossom without the honey-cup, spread open to show the chives.
2. The same magnified.
.3. The honey-cup magnified.
4. The pointal magnified.
IN the Icones of Jacquin we find a figure of this Epidendrum, under the appellation we have adopted,
but evidently taken from a dried specimen, with a reference to the Icones of Father Plumier 182, fig. 1.
xmder the title of Heleborine ; but on comparison we find no affinity sufficienily powerful to induce us
to regard them as representing the same plant. In Plumier's figure there is no incisure at the end of
the leaves, a specific character in our plant ; the rest of the figure is also too obscure to admit of comparison.
The plant, from its long and slender ftalks, acquires a graceful bend when in flower. As a
native of Jamaica it requires the tan-bed of the hot-stove for its protection ; and, like many otiier tropical
plants, is subject to lose much of its beauty by the loss of the leaves on the lower ijart of the stem.
Our figure was made from the Hibbertian Collection.
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