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alte cordato cucullato basi ecalloso, clinandrio utrinque 
bidentato.— Brazil. — The branches of this are four 
or five inches long, the leaves from half an inch to two 
inches. The flowers small and green. According to 
Mr. Gardner it is an aquatic. 
. E. diffusum (Swartz. Prodr. 191. Fl. Ind. occ. 3. 1503. 
Willd.no. 15. Seraphyta multiflora Fisch. Ann. Nat. Hist. 
viii. 471); foliis oblongis, caule ancipiti, paniculä termi- 
nali ramosissimá, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis petalisque 
setaceis erecto-patentibus striatis, labello cordato acumi- 
nato basi bicalloso.— Jamaica, &c.—— Flowers small, 
red, in a loose panicle. 
E. vincentinum (Lindl. in Hook. Journ. 3. 88); caule 
ancipiti, foliis distichis anguste lanceolatis acutissimis 
paniculá pauciflorá laxá filiformi brevioribus, sepalis 
lineari-lanceolatis, petalis filiformibus, labello subrotundo 
erispo.—-—,St. Vincents.—— A small delicate species, 
not more than four inches high, with minute membranous 
flowers, disposed in a short, loose panicle; filiform 
pedicels. er 
E. recurvatum ; foliis ensiformibus mucronatis strictis 
paniculæ gracili ramis longis recurvis æqualibus, bracteis 
apice setaceis, floribus membranaceis distantibus, sepalis 
ovato-oblongis, petalis lineari-spathulatis, labello alte 
cordato subquadrato ecalloso.—— Colombia. ——A plant 
with the habit of E. tridactylum, &c. but with rose- 
coloured flowers, which are three or four times as large. 
Found by Mr. Linden. x 
E. micranthum (Lindl. in Hook. Journ. 3. 88); foliis 
distichis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, paniculà virgata, 
bracteis setaceo-acuminatis florum dissitorum longitu- 
dine, sepalis oblongis carnosis obtusis subæqualibus, 
petalis linearibus, labello oblongo quadrato indiviso 
nudo.—— Peru. ——A plant with flowers scarcely a line 
long, and all the habit of Ep. tridactylum. 
** Lip more or less toothed, or two lobed. 
E. lineare (Fl. Peruv. Syst. 249); ‘ foliis linearibus, 
racemo terminali subpaniculato, labello obcordato-cunei- 
formi basi utrinque dentato.”—— Peru—— _ 
E. volubile (FL. Peruv. Syst. 247); “ foliis oblongo- 
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