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EPIDENDRUM cuspidatum. 
Yellow fringed-flowered Epidendrum. 
— Jo — 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDE®, Jussieu gen. 61. Brown prod. 1. 300. Div. IV. 
Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Massa pollinis demüm cereacez. 
Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 205. 
` EPIDENDRUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 67. 
E. cuspidatum, folis sepè trinis, spica remota pauciflora; limbi laciniis 
duabus interioribus latioribus subrhombeo-lanceolatis cuspidatis; labelli 
lamina triloba, lobis lateralibus fimbriato-incisis, medio semen integer- 
rimo. 
Epidendrum cuspidatum. Loddiges’s bot. cab. 10. 
Epidendrum ciliare. Curtis’s magaz. 463; (nec Linnai.) 
Scapus erectiusculus, simplex tereti-compressus, virens, cicatricibus remotis 
annulatus inferné versus attenuatus, vaginis compressis alternis sphacelatis dense 
paralleleque nervosis ad flores usque vestitus. Vaginve ex imis longioribus( biun- 
cialibus) supernè versus descrescentes, lineari-lanceolate, rectissime, bifa- 
riam alterne. Folium (2-3?) coriaceum, firmum, erectiusculum, scapo sub- 
«quale, supra virens lucidum, subtus opacum pallidum, 4-unciale laiitudine 
$ vel $ partes uncie, costá media prominente, apice obtuso mucronulato. 
Spica remote pauci-(3-) flora, axi geniculato-flexuosá : bracter geminate, 
arido-membranacec tenues, germine breviores, lanceolato-lineares, cuspidate. 
Germen viride biunciale vel magis, obsolete trigonum, crassitudine penne mi- 
noris, esulcum, glabrum, erectiusculum, corolle lacinias exsuperans. Co- 
rolle lacinie exteriores ligulato-lanceolate elongate cuspidate striate, inte- 
rioribus duabus tenuioribus duplo fermé angustiores. Columna alba erecta 
clavato-cylindracea, diametro feré penne columbine, subtrigono-teres, apice 
anticè protuberans cum cavo infundibuliformi labellifero, posticè antherifera 
membranula alba laciniata marginata. Labellum columnam antice cunicu- 
lato-decurrens, limbi laciniis equale: unguis brevis, latus truncato-lobatus, 
superné patens utrinque inferné canaliculato-connivens: lamina tripar- 
tita, lobis lateralibus deflexis, semiovato-rotundis, ord externá laciniato-fim- 
briatá lacinulis angustissimis profundissimis ; medio istis equali integer imo 
subulato-lineari, apice non dilatato, lateribus deflexis, filo longo prefixo. An- 
thera convexa. Boc pollinis fave complanate inaquilateri-concideo, 
filis binis supra furcatis longioribus per paria connexa. Stigma anticum, 
intra frontem capitelli columna reconditum. 
Received by Messrs. Loddiges, of the Hackney Nursery, 
in 1808, from the island of Dominica. 
Drawn at the Chelsea Nursery, where it is cultivated by 
Mr. Colvill in the hothouse. 
In Curtiss Botanical Magazine the plant has been, 
