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EPIDENDRUM VIRIDI-PURPUREUM. PuURPLISH- 
GREEN EpIDENDRUM. 
SERRE KK KR KKK EKER 
Class and Order. 
GynanpDRiA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia v. 
angustiora, rariis latiora, patentia v. reflexa. Labellum 
cum marginibus columne omnino v. parte connatum, limbo 
integro v. diviso, disco spits calloso, costato, v. tubercu- 
lato; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et auric- 
ulum formans. Columna elongata: clinandrio marginato, 
sepé fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4 locularis. Pollinia 
4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe (Ameri- 
cana (epiphyte, caule nunc apice v. basi pseudo-bulboso, 
nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissimé venis 
elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbosi v. pani- 
culati, terminales v. laterales. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Epipenprum viridi-purpureum; caule elongato simplici 
tereti basi incrassato vaginato, superne folioso, foliis 
distichis ee subdistichis, racemo denso 
subcapitato terminali, sepalis petalisque oblongo-obo- 
vatis, labello convexo latissime cordato trilobo, basi 
bituberculato, lobis lateralibus rotundatis, intermedio 
bifido laciniis divaricatis. 
Although a native of Jamaica, one of the best explored 
of our possessions in the West Indies, I do not find that 
this is noticed by any botanical writer. Seventy-one spe- 
cies of this extensive Genus were defined by Dr. Linpey 
in his valuable “ Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants,”’ 
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