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* EPIDÉNDRUM gracile. 
Graceful Epidendrum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcuipex, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 262.) 
EPIDENDRUM.—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 17. 
E, gracile ; foliis in pseudobulbos ovatos corrugatos pluribus levato-ensiformibus, 
racemo simplici longissimo, sepalis oblongis petalisque cuneatis patentibus, 
labelli feré liberi trilobi lobis lateralibus semiovatis intermedio oblongo crispo 
obtusissimo dupló minoribus disco bicostato. 
Labellum tripartitum, cum basi columne leviter connatum; laciniis 
lateralibus erectis, semiovatis, obtusis, subundulatis, flavis sanguineo venosis, 
intermediá subrotundá crispá ejusdem coloris brevioribus ; in medio crassum, 
album venis purpureis, bicostatum ; costis utrinque infra medium obsolete 
unidentatis. Ovarium breve cuniculatum. Columna semiteres, marginata 
apice utrinque auriculata. Gynizus deorsum trilobus ; rostillum crassum, 
breve, rotundatum. Anthera complete 4-loculares ; dissepimentis membraná 
marginatis. Pollinia 4, compressa basi unidentata; caudiculis totidem 
pulvereis replicatis. 
A native of the Bahamas, whence it was sent to the Hor- 
ticultural Society by John Campbell Lees, Esq. in 1833. 
From a plant which flowered last September the accom- 
panying drawing has been taken. 
The plant is very nearly allied to Æ. odoratissimum, but 
its leaves are three times as long, and the flowering stem 
shoots up to the length of three feet, without a branch or a 
leaf beyond the little scales that appear upon it here and 
there; the flowers moreover are larger, and the form of 
the segments of the lip materially different, while the 
* See folio 1415. 
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