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TAD. XXV.
E P I D E N D R U M ALOIFOLIUM:
ALOE-LEAVED' EPIDENDllVM.
uhifilkm: rliiíomatc repente partó folios», caulibus bvevibus „.onopliyllis, «oribns
•i 5 low>e-»c<lieelklis ex ÍBÍBO WÜ ovulo-lanceoli.ti cr.ississimi prodeunlibus sepal,s pefalBqoe co.jform.bus
Lceotü/aeulatís expU.n.tis, l.belU dte ü-ilobi lobis lator.Jibus oci»dfo™ib„s, .„.e^ecl.o p.„16
longiore setaceo; columnil íabello eonnatá,
Bcsci-íftíon.
From a M creqnnn ßnizOMA pwaied tU sJort, ,•»««(/, dujhlhj incraH^aUd STEMS mch
a f i 10 áfoot Ll half or Uro /«í lo„o. » tkclr .ä,4 .tat. Mu,i,,,, do,a. .from tU „ra,u:U«
o/tZ. From tu „M of tl,e Uare., ,„ul profited at tU uM, t.co or ,,ree Aor acum^ U
Vr icrs, to» from tjrr, to fir, Fumm. mfpoH^ « PSO'OELU, ofnrarlufi« rucKcs » leugli.
SeZS a,ul Ár.z. » fon,, la,.eeolate. acte. .,,rcad ro,,Uto,,, o,,,,,, oj » oZ» J«»
oolm,r .,bo„t „CO inches long. L.p „„ited wit,, the „pper part of the col,.,»,, deep,,, "•"'-^l^'')' "
laZot Mec ,ci,nUa,-.lu,ped, j„,rc «Ute. ratl,er shorter than the intcr„,e„a e one.
a,.l ,ri.t,e-shaped. and tipped u-ith rjrecn at its e.trenút,n at thelaseo te l,p WJ
oral g,a„d„Ur process«, of a ,jem,c eolo„r. COLUMN WL,,te, rather clnb-shaped. short and tl,,,.!,
excavated at its apex, ,c]wrc is situate the ydlaw ANTIIEJ,.
IF tabit nlone »ere to be taken as a guide, lie singular plant represented on the opposi^tc page wouU
never have been plaeed in the genu. Epidendr,.,,,. to ,vhich, nevertheless, ,
only kno,vn species to >vldch it bear, even the slightest resemblance m rt., .node of
but tl.e leaves of the latter are loss crassular. and mud, shorter. There also some degree °
are nearly equal; in E. faleatm, the middle is l^vicc the length of Ü.o sides.
F „/.„Mimn was discovered near Xalapa by Mr. Boss, by «hom it was sent to Mr I!»«,cm., and
fronr^- t ^ Z Z e t at Spring,ield oa": dn.«d..g was made i„ the winter of 183.. It .s a plant of
easy culture.
' A kind of sea-weed, fo..nd with the shells figured ..nder Odcn,oglo,s«u g,-ande, forms the V.gnette.
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