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EPIDENDRUM CoRIACEUM. CoRIACEOUS- 
LEAVED EPIDENDRUM. 
EEK KK ERE KEKE KKK KEKE KEK 
Class and Order. 
GyYNANDRIA MonanprRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuwes. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia, v. 
angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia v. reflexa. bellum 
cum marginibus column omnino v. parte connatum, limbo 
integro v. diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato, v. tubercu- 
lato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et cunicu- 
lum formans. Columna elongata: clinandrio marginato, 
sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. Pollinia 
4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe (Ameri- 
cane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice v. basi pseudo-bulboso, 
nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime vens 
elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi corymbosi, v. pa- 
niculati, terminales v. laterales. Lindl. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Erienprum coriaceum ; pseudo-bulbis oblongo-lanceolatis 
compressis, foliis subbinis coriaceis acutis oblongo- 
lanceolatis, perianthii foliolis obovato-oblongis, petalis 
sepalis duplo angustioribus, labelli limbo rotundato- 
reflexo. Parker MSS. 
This plant was sent from Demerara some years ago by 
Cuarces Parker, Esq., to the Liverpool Botanic Garden, 
where Mr. Henry Suepuerp considered it a variety of E. 
variegatum (Bot. Mag. t. 3151.), and, I must confess, I was 
myself at first disposed to look upon it in the same light : 
but Mr. Parker has, I think, clearly shown, that it isa 
distinct 
