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EPIDENDRUM PATENS. SPREADING-FLOWERED 
EPIDENDRUM. 
KKK EEE KEK KKK EERE EK 
Class and Order. 
GynanprRIA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala patentia subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia vel 
angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Labellum 
cum marginibus column omnino vel parte connatum, lim- 
bo integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato vel 
tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum, ovario accretum et 
cuniculum formans. Columna elongata ; clinandrio margi- 
nato, sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. 
Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe 
epiphyte (Americane ), caule nunc apice v. basi pseudo-bul- 
oso, nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime 
venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbosi 
vel paniculati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
EpripenpruM patens ; caule tereti, foliis distichis oblongo- 
lanceolatis, sepalis petalisque subequalibus oblongis 
acutis convexis patentibus, labello trilobo lobis de- 
flexis, lateralibus subrotundis, intermedio bifido. 
Epipenprum patens. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. p. 1495. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 757. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1537. 
Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 108. 
From the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it flowered in 
ch 1839. It is a native of Jamaica and Trinidad, and 
probably of other of the West Indian islands. 
_ Descr. Stem a foot, or a foot and a half high, terete, 
jointed, bare of leaves below, leafy above. Leaves oblongo- 
lanceolate. 
