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Epidendrum, arrested the curious observer, who soon found 
the symmetry and simple elegance of the little blossoms of 
Epidendrum armeniacum compensate for the absence of 
those more obvious beauties that adorned its gaudier rivals. 
Itis a stove plant, increasing readily by division of its 
tufted stems, like E. elongatum, and the kindred of that 
common species. It was imported by Messrs. Rollissons of 
Tooting, to whom I was indebted for a specimen in the month 
of June. 
Fig. 1, isa profile view of the lip, with its column; 
Fig. 2, is the lip cut from the column, and viewed from 
above, with the great callus that occupies its middle; Fig. 3, 
represents the pollen masses, with their powdery reflexed 
caudicle. 
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