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Genus. If it be really an Eripenprum, as its habit would 
lead one to conclude, it is another species added to that 
small groupe of the Genus, with a column quite distinct 
from the lip, to which our E. bicornutum, t. 3332, belongs. 
The flowers continue for a considerable length of ‘time in 
_ perfection. ; 
Descr. Root of rather thick, branched jibres, throwing 
up several erect, simple stems, ten inches or a foot high, 
flexuose, jointed, rounded and striated, a little tapering at 
the base and at the extremity, and partly sheathed by the 
bases of former years’ leaves, and terminated at the extre- 
_mity by two ‘spreading, linear-oblong, coriaceous, very 
obtuse, smooth leaves, from two to three inches in length. 
From between these the flowers arise in a sort of corymb, 
haying an umbellate appearance of from four to six in 
number, and nearly sessile. Peduncles scaly below. Flow- 
ers slightly curved. Sepals three, spreading, ovato-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, petals also spreading, ovate acuminate, 
both of a delicate rose colour. Lig quite free, by no means 
adnate with the column, patent, obovate, very obtuse at the 
base, above having a square, yellowish-white, slightly tu- 
berculated disk, the rest of the lip is rose-coloured, with a 
dark red spot in the centre. Column short, deep rose- 
colour, keeled on the back, toothed at the apex, white 
beneath. Within a cavity, just below the apex, the anther 
is situated, but it seems to be in an imperfect state. 
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Fig. 1. Lip and Column. 2. Lip. 3. Front view of the Column: magnt- 
