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ASPASIA EPIDENDROIDES. EPIDENDRUM-LIKE 
ASPASIA. 
SKK KKK KEKE ERE EKER 
Class and Order. 
GynanpriA Monanppria. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuIvEz.) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium patens, equale. Sepala lateralia libera; su- 
premum cum petalis basi connatum. Labellum oblongum, 
concavum, ecalcaratum, obsolete 4-lobum, cum columna 
semi-connatum. Colwmna labello parallela, semiteres, mar- 
ginata. Anthera.—Pollinia 2, pyriformia, postice sulcata, 
caudicula plana cuneata, glandula parva.—Herbe epiphyte 
caulescentes, pseudo-bulbose. Folia subcoriacea. Spice 
radicales, breves. Flores mediocrt. Lindl. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Aspasta epidendroides ; pseudo-bulbis oblongis ancipitibus, 
sepalis lineari-oblongis acutis, petalis obtusis concavis, 
labelli lobis lateralibus rotundatis integerrimis, inter- 
medio crenulato emarginato. Land1. 
Aspasta epidendroides. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 139. 
We have already figured one species of Aspasta (A. varie- 
gata) at Tab. 3679 of this work. The present is that upon 
which the Genus is founded, and our specimen was age | 
communicated in the early spring of 1842, from the ric 
collection of Orcurpem at Penllegar, by its possessor, 
Dittwrn Lurwettyn, Esq. About the same time it blos- 
somed in the Orchideous-house of the Royal Botanic Gar- 
dens of Kew, and, since, much more luxuriantly, at Mrs. 
Wray’s of Oakfield, Cheltenham. It is an inhabitant of 
Panama and Columbia, and has frequently been sent by 
Mr. SKInNER from Guatemala. 
Descr. 
