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ONCIDIUM ALTISSIMUM. ‘'TALL-STEMMED 
ONCIDIUM. 
Class and Order. 
GynanpriA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Or¢uen. Juss.) 
Generic Character. 
Labellum explanatum, lobatum, basi tuberculatum. Pe- 
tala patentia (2 antica nunc connata). Colwmna alata. 
Masse pollinis 2, postice bilobe ; medio affix processu 
communi stigmatis. Br. 
~ Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Onciprum* altissimum; labello panduriformi trilobo, lobo 
medio subreniformi maximo bifido, lobis lateralibus 
rotundatis versus columnam bidentatam  curvatis, 
scapo altissimo paniculato, foliis ensiformibus. 
Oncipium altissimum. Swartz, Act. Holm. 1800, p. 240. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v.4. p. 112. Br. in Att. Hort. Kew. ed. 
2. 0.5. p. 215. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 728. 
Epienprum altissimum. Jacq. Am. p. 229. t. 141. Swartz, 
Prodr. p. 123. : 
Crmpmrum altissimum. Swartz, Nov. Act. Ups. 6. p. 94. 
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Descr. Parasitic on the trunks of trees. Bulb as large 
as a turkey’s egg, dark green, quite smooth, remarkably 
Jombressed, sharp at the edges, and marked with a few 
ongitudinal, elevated lines, bearing one solitary leafat the 
extremity, from a foot anda half to two feet long; while 
om the base, at each of the edges, there arise generally 
Wo other and shorter leaves with sheathing bases ; all of 
eM are sword-shaped, bright-green, somewhat cartila- 
smous and fleshy, keeled at the back, but not distinctly 
tved or striated. From the axils of one of the root-leaves 
&. : appears 
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base piteewhy ype de or protuberance, in allusion to the tubercle at the 
