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* EPIDENDRUM gracile. 



Graceful JEpidendrum. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchideje, Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany , p. 262.) 



EPIDENDRUM.—Supra, vol. \,foL 17. 



E. gracile ; foliis in pseudobulbos ovatos corrugates pliiribus levato-ensiformibus, 

 racemo simplici longissimo, sepalis oblongis petalisque cuneatis patentibus, 

 labelli fere liberi trilobi lobis lateralibus semiovatis intermedio oblongo crispo 

 obtusissimo duplo mlnoribus disco bicostato. 



Labellum tripartitu7?i, cum basi columnce leviter connatum ; laciniis 

 lateralibus erectis^ semiovatis, obtusis, subundulatis, Jlavis sanguineo venosis, 

 intermedia siibrot^uidd crispd ejusdem coloris brevioribus ; in medio crassum, 

 album venis purpureis, bicostatum ; costis utrinque infra medium obsolete 

 unidentatis. Ovarium breve cuniculatum. Columna semitercs, marginata 

 apice utrinque auriculat a. Gynizus deorsum trilobus ; rostillum crassum, 

 breve, rotundatum. Anthera complete 4-loculares ; dissepimentis membravd 

 marginatis. Pollinia 4, compressa basi unidentata ; caudiculis totidem 

 pulvereis replicatis. 



A native of the Bahamas, whence it was sent to the Hor- 

 ticultural Society by John Campbell Lees, Esq. in 1833. 

 From a plant which flowered last September the accom- 

 panying drawing has been taken. 



The plant is very nearly allied to J^. odoratissimum, but 

 its leaves are three times as long, and the flowering stem 

 shoots up to the length of three feet, without a branch or a 

 leaf beyond the little scales that appear upon it here and 

 there ; the flowers moreover are larger, and the form of 

 the segments of the lip materially diff'erent, while the 



* See folio 1415. 

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