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EPIDENDRUM PALLIDIFLORUM. PALE- 
FLOWERED EPIDENDRUM. 
KEKE KEKE EEE EEE EEE EK 
Class and Order. 
GyYNANDRIA MonANDRIA. 
Generic Character. 
Columna cum ungue labelli longitudinaliter connata in 
tubum (quandoque decurrentem ovarium). Masse pollinis 
4, parallele, septis completis persistentibus distincte, basi 
filo granulato elastico aucte. Br. 
Specific Character. 
Eripenprum pallidiflorum ; caule simplici paucifolio, foliis 
distichis lineari-oblongis obtusis, floribus in corymbo 
pedunculato terminali,-petalis obovato-lanceolatis pa- 
tentibus planis, labello trilobo, lobis equalibus inter- 
medio marginibus involutis. 
Stee 
Drscr. Parasitic. Roots fibrous, thick, fleshy, pale 
brownish, almost white. Stem about a span high, rounded 
at the base and scarcely compressed upward. Leaves four to 
five, distichous, sheathing at the base, linear-oblong, cori- 
aceous, nerveless, obtuse, generally slightly twisted, pale- 
green. Peduncle terminal, compressed, with two or three 
laterally compressed bractee. Flowers several in a loose 
corymb. Petals nearly equal, spreading, obovato-lanceo- 
late, plane, somewhat fleshy, white, greenish at the tips. 
olumn semicylindrical, white, rose-purple at the extremity, 
low combined with the lower half of the lip, whose extre- 
mity only is free, three-lobed, pure white, the lobes equal, 
two lateral ones plane, very obtuse, the intermediate one 
With the margins involute, so as to give the appearance of 
its being acute. Anther pale purple. Pollen-masses in two 
Pairs, oval, yellow, with stalks about as long as maar 
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