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EPIDENDRUM tripterum. 



Triangular-fruited Epidendrum. 



<: Y N A NDRIA Diandria. 



Clir. i . Nti*y unbuuttd, oblique, rclkxed.-Oafc leading. *« no, 

 "■■ S vartz, m a kiln of (XftrVr i;gj. 



Leamjfrmwnxfn-m a bulb. 



Spec. Char. Lew 

 dital. Owalhed, i 

 pculs. 



Qmmi*3m 



i from a bulb and fiom the root, tword-fliapcd. Stalk* 

 ■ny-flowcred. Gcnnen (hrec-wingcd. Lip equal to 



■, anJfisxtrtJ i4 Me gaitm tftk, Om. ,tfi. Itamngtm, Frk 1 ;o.j, i! 



Roor of a few, ihick, flclhy. long, and nearly umplc fibre*, nightly downy. AA> .bow pound. 



numerous ovate, but little conqwciW, frnooth, green, fomcwlut glaucous an ineh long. 

 Luvu fhcaihing. a Ikik fpreading. fwoed-llaped. pointed, entire, nerved, my fmooth, paler 



beneath ; moil numeroui from the ra«Utal bwb, elothrd with obkeig. acute, COOOn ■.-, iheiil.m- 



fealeit fewer from die fummit* of ihe bulbi. 



St*i«j radical, thrice a. high ai ihc bulb*, erect ; ilackly coveted at thebaic with ftnalW.eo". 

 cavc.blunlilh, reddilh fcalo, imbncaiol ma two-foM order 1 in the upper nan roundifh. end- 

 ing 111 1 (iiiijJc clullei of nuny dowm. 



ftontat cm foot-Hall.*, grading, wfi.ic. without fmcIL Pehtki angular. Ihorter (bin the grr- 

 men. Btaflc (olnary. lincar-Uncxobtc. acute, memfannout, nearly equal (o the flowm. 



I'iui > five, nearly equal, a little fprca<linj, ovale, bluniilh. concave, while and fcmipdlucid. 

 *',*olthc Stiiaiy equal 10 (Ik* peub. of il>e laine colour, and nearly the fame funn, rxcqit n» 

 -" '1 (ide a lli^ht ingle, which ftcim bent upward >. 



1 IrilfiificaUtaa very oUufe, pitchcr-lhajN-d. notched at die tup, without any cover. 



A<hi: on die fummit two. feiTde. fmall ..ml ydlowilh. S/igma a I f l f wift clunk.no* very 



"11' in, mm,!, r die IBlhem, GtmncMong) with time mrmtnanoui pointed wuig*. between 



at which, on the fide* ol the geinxn, ate two fmall intermcime wing..' 



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