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EPIDEN DRUM* odoratissimum. 
Sweet-scented Epidendrum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OrcHIDEZ Jussieu. — ($ Epidendree ; Introduction to the 
natural system of Botany, p. 262.) 
EPIDENDRUM.—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 17. 
$ Folüs in pseudobolbos insidentibus. 
E. foliis in pseudobolbos ovatos corrugatos binis ensiformibus, racemo sub- 
simplici longiore, sepalis oblongis petalisque cuneatis patentibus, labelli 
feré liberi trilobi lobis oblongis obtusis integris subsequalibus disco cal- 
loso depresso. 
Encyclia patens. Hooker in Bot. mag. t. 3013. 
Macradenia lutescens. Bot. cab. non Bot. reg. : 
Pseudobolbi ovati, corrugati, sulcati, atrovirides, nunc induviati. Folia 
lineari-ligulata, coriacea, atroviridia, obtusa, racemo erecto, terminali, multi- 
Foro breviora. Flores odoratissimi, viridi-lutei, purpureo submaculati. Se- 
pala ovata, acuta, patentia. Petala patentia, cuneato-obovata. Labellum 
sepiüs posticum, cum columna parallelum, basi adnatum, trilobum, lobis ob- 
longis, conformibus, lateralibus, erectis, intermedio marginibus reflexis ; disco 
albo, elevato, carnoso. Columna semiteres, apice antrorsüm subauriculata ; 
anthera bilocularis, carnosa; loculis semibipartitis; pollinia 4, geminata, 
Filis 4 replicatis. 
This delightfully fragrant epiphyte is a native of woods 
near Rio Janeiro, whence it was introduced to our Gardens 
a few years since. The plant from which our drawing 
was taken had been received by the Horticultural Society 
from the Right Hon. Robert Gordon, and flowered in the 
Garden at Chiswick last summer. It is easily cultivated 
in decayed moss and wood well drained, and placed in a 
hot damp part of the stove. 
This is certainly a genuine Epidendrum, from which it 
* From imi, upon, and dvdgo», a tree; the branches of trees being the 
usual habitations of such plants. 
