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Epidendrum Cucullatum. Hooded 

 Epidendrum. 



Oafs and Order. 



G.Y KANDRIA DlANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Neciarium turbinaium, obliquum reflexum. 



Specific Charatler and Syno?iyms. 



EPIDENDRUM cucullatum s foliis fubulatis, fcapo unifloro, 

 ne£lani labio ovato ciliato acuminato, pe- 

 talis elongatis. Spec. PL 1350. 



HELLEBORINE floribus albis cucullatis. Plum. Spec. 9. 

 Icon. ijq. f. 1. 



This very curious fpecies of Epidendrum, which we 

 believe flowered for the firft time in this country* in the bark 

 ftove of Edward Woodford, Efq. Vauxha!!, in September 

 'aft, rifes with a tingle ftem, clothed with two or three alter- 

 nate aft-coloured fcale-like fpathes, fo clofcly adpreffed as 

 to be fcarcely difcernible. From the top of the ftem irfues 

 one leaf (perhaps, as in the figure of Pi.uMi£R,fometimes more) 

 flefliy, linear, acute, convex at the back, and (lightly grooved 

 in front. From the bofom of this leaf rifes a round (cape, 

 at firft fwelling, then attenuated upwards, bearing a folitary 

 flower, perfectly white when newly opened, but becoming 

 tinged with a yellowifh green, confifting of three external 

 and two internal petals, of fimilar length and fhape, linear, 

 fomewhat undulated, the two inner ones exactly oppofite, and 

 a ne&ary furrounding the parts of fruclification fhaped like a 

 friar's cowl, far-acuminate, fringed, continuing of a fnow white 

 after the petals have changed their tint. Nearly fcentlefs. 



# It was in the royal colleftion at Kew in 1794. Mart. Miff. Di8. 



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