“398 © GYNANDRIA, MONANDRIA. 
claw of the lip into a t 
upon the ovarium). Pollinia 4, paratiel, sepa-_ 
_rated by complete persistent septa, each mass 
eet at the base by a Granitated elastic 
so Aor 5 inches high; leaves striated, rigid 
pendulous. Petals linear. oblong, ‘connivent, distinct, all 
and crenulate. Column of an equal thickness and slightly 
eet genus than any other with which lam acquainted, 
without, however, possessing any natural affinity, and is 
~ totally different in habit and geographical range. 
62. EPIDENDRUM. Swartz. R. Brown. 
~operect, lamina of the sj tegie middle lobe retuse, inte- 
Root concatenately bulbous, bulbs subglobose; leaf soli: hi 
tury, hiemal, pluited, arid; scape sheathed, many-flowet 
= flowers at engi pendulous; germ attenuated, ees 
ric. 
3. hiemalis. Cymbidium hiemale. Leaf solitary, ovate, 
striate; lip trifid, obtuse, with the palate ridged, central © 
Jobe rounded, crem Has. In shady woods amidst 
recent vegetable soil, “from Canada to Carolina—Scape © 
about 12 inches bi gh, cluthed with 3 membranaceous _ 
sheathes; . flowers brownish, at first ercct, afterwards 
neatly equal in size and form. Lip un iculate, distinet 
et the base, and about the length oft the petals, dila- 
ted towards the extreznity, trifid, ridged along the cen- 
tre, the middle lobe rounded, with the margin undulated 
curved, shorier than the lip; lid of the anthér membrana- 
naceous, caducous; pollinia 4, lenticular and cereaceous, 
laterally attucl.ed to the summit of the column, at length 
deciduous. —This plant, much more nearly related to the 
urs also a partial resemblance to Cymbidium of KR. Brown, _ gf 
The column longitudinally united with the 
ale (sometimes decurrent 
"aa upon the boughs and trunks of trees; leaves 
coriaceous, Mostly solitary, binafe or ternate, sometimes 
arising fiom an oblong bulb; scape many-flowered, simple 
_ or rarely divided. 
» Specigs. 1. B..conapseum. Stem simple, flowers spiked, 
or petals narrower, ves lanceolate. Hort. Kew. 5. p- 
Zs eo tc Mubl. Catal. p. 81, Has. Mostly on 
‘Sof Magnolia grandifiora, from cont ae 
im the vicinity of Savannah, Georgia, ».) 
y fibrou creeping, claspi s roun 
smoother barked Irees; stems cespitose, 
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