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EpripENpRUM ALotpes. -ALOE-LEAVED 
EPIDENDRUM. 
JEP MGb Herein 
“ Clafs and Order. 
Gunawnaia DIANDRIA. — a 
Generic Charaffer. , 
Nefarinm turbinatum obliquum reflexum. : 
§ pacthe Charaéter and Synonyms, 
EPIDENDRUM aloifolium foliis radicalibus oblongis obtufis 
fuperne latioribus. Linn. Sy/t. Vegetab. ed. 
| 14. Murr. p. 818. Spec. Pl. ed. 3. p..13950- 
-- KANSIJRAM-MARAVARA. Rheede Malab. 12. p. 17. t: 8. 
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The prefent Epidendrum is figured and defcribed in Ruegpe’s” 
Hort. Malab. from whence we learn that it is parafitical to fe- 
veral' trees in India, but moft frequently found on the Strychnas 
Nux Vomica. a8 a  — 
A few years fince, my friend Mr. Vers, of Kenfington, re=_ 
ceived this plant from India, by the kindnefs of his-neighbour | 
J. Devaynes, Efq. Placed ina pot of earth and plunged 
in the'tan pit of the ftove, it grew, increafed, and now flourifhes, 
_ but has not blown: with Meffrs Grimwoop and Wykegs, 
Nurferymen, Kenfington, the plant has flowered this fummer 5 
inftead of plunging it in the tan, they fet it on the flue of 
the ftove; and to this variation in its treatment, its flowering 
is perhaps to be attributed. — | es 
The leaves of this plant were fomewhat more than a foot in 
length, rather flefhy, and very rigid’; they had this fingularity, 
at the extremity one-half projeGted beyond the other, the 
flowering branch fprung from the bafe of the leaves and ex- 
tended to about the fame length, the flowers grew in a fpike, 
feventeen or eighteen, moftly alternate, they appeared to have — 
a flight but pleafing fragrance, the petals were of a dull purple 
colour marked with deeper ftripes, their edges white or pale- 
buff colour, nefary nearly the fame colour, revolute, trifid 
lower fegment marked -about the middle with two yellow 
tubercles. eee i, a 
It is of more ready growth than parafitical plants in ger 
and is increafed by parting its roots. Ek ee 
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