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EPIDENDRUM plicatum. 
Plaited-lipped Epidendrum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcuıpacex. $ Ermenbrea. (Orcuips, Vegetable 
Kingdom, p. 173.) 
EPIDENDRUM.— Supra passim. 
$ ENCYCLIUM. 
E. plicatum ; pseudobulbis ovato-oblongis teretibus diphyllis, foliis coriaceis 
ensiformibus, racemo paucifloro (?) tactu glabro, bracteis minimis 
sguamiformibus, sepalis petalisgue obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, labelli 
laciniis lateralibus oblongis acuminatis obtusis intermedia cordatá plicatá 
cuspidatä subbrevioribus ungue crasso sulcato, columná apice utrinque 
dentiferà. 
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This fine species has been introduced from Cuba, by 
Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered last January. It is 
remarkable for the petals, which are green inside, with a few 
purplish stains near the point, being of a deep rich violet on 
the outside! The sepals are greenish, stained with dull 
purple on both sides. The lip is of a very rich purple, with 
a little yellow near the base; its middle lobe is strongly 
plaited, and deeply cordate. 
It is most nearly allied to E. ceratistes, a plant found by 
Mr. Linden on the snow-capped mountain ridge of Santa 
Martha ; but that plant has a large branching panicle, smaller 
flowers, and shorter lateral lobes to the lip, which is white, 
with the middle lobe not at all cordate. 
Fig. 1. represents the inside of the lip of this species, 
somewhat magnified. 
It may be interesting to some of our readers, to know that 
there exists in Florida, a species allied to this, the introduction 
of which would be desirable. It occurs near Tampa Bay, 
whence we have specimens communicated by Dr. Torrey, and 
