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EpIDENDRUM CEPIFORME. ONION-ROOTED 
EPIDENDRUM. 
SKK KKK KKK KKK KEE EEE 
Class and Order. 
GyNANDRIA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcniwE2. ) 
Generic Character. 
es 
Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia, vel 
angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Labellum 
cum marginibus column omnino vel parte connatum, 
limbo integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato, vel 
tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et 
cuniculum formans. Columna elongata: clinandrio mar- 
ginato, seepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. 
Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe 
(Americana ) epiphyte, caule nunc apice vel basi pseudo-bul- 
boso, nunc elongato apice folioso, Folia earnosa rarissime 
venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbost 
vel paniculati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Ermwenprum (Encycrsa) cepiforme ; pseudo-bulbo globoso 
Jevi diphyllo, foliis lineari-lingulatis crassiusculis, 
panicula maxima amplissima effusa, petalis sepalisque 
uniformibus patentibus spathulatis acutis, labello libero 
trilobo, lobis lateralibus oblongis incurvis columnam 
involventibus, medio cordato acutiusculo. 
This is another of the new Orchideous plants for which 
the Woburn Collection is indebted to Joun Parkinson, 
Esq. H. B. M. Consul at Mexico, who sent it from that 
country in May, 1838. Its large, globose, smooth pseudo- 
bulbs and its ample panicles, four of which, each about 
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