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EPTDl^DRUM* odoratissimuin. 



Sweet-acoited Ejti(U'ndnini . 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Ouchidk/T. Jussieu. — (§ Epidcndrcoc ; Introduclion to the 

 natural system of Botany, p. 262.) 



EPlbENDRUM.—Suprd, vol. \.fol.\l. 



§ Foliis in pseudobolbos insidentibus. 

 E. foliis in pseudobolbos ovatos corrugatos binis cnsifonuibiis, ract'iiio siib- 



siniplici loiii^iore, sepalis oblonfris petaliscjue cuncatis patentihus, lalu'lli 



(erh liberi Irilobi lobis oblongis obtusis integris subsequalibus disco cal- 



loso depresso. 

 Encyclia patens. Hooker in Bot. mag. t. 3013. 

 Macradenia hitescens. Bot. cab. iio7i Bot. rer/. 



Pseiidobolbi ovati, corrugati, sulcati, atrovirides, mow induviati. Folia 

 lineari-ligulata, corincca, atroviridia, obtitsa, raccmo crecto, (cr7ninali,midti- 

 fioro brcviora. Flores odoratissimi, viridi-lutci, purpureo submaculati. Se- 

 pala ovata, acuta, patentia. Petala patentia, cuneato-obovata. Labelluin 

 scBjniis posticum, cum columna paralleluvi, basi adnatum, trilobum, /obis ob- 

 longis, conformibus, lateralibus, erectis, intcrmedio marginibus rvflcxis ; disco 

 albo, elcvato, carnoso. Columna scmiteres, apice antrorsii7n subauricidnta : 

 anthera bilocularis, cartiosa ; loculis se mibipar litis ; pollinia 4, gemiuata, 

 Jilis 4 replicatis. 



This delightfully fragrant epii)hyte is a native of woods 

 near Rio Janeiro, whence it was introduced to our Gardens 

 a few years since. The plant from which our drawing 

 was taken had been received by the Horticultural Society 

 from the Right Hon. Robert Gordon, and flowered m the 

 Garden at Chiswick last summer. It is easily cultivated 

 in decayed moss and wood well drained, and placed in a 

 hot damp part of the stove. 



This is certainly a genuine Epidendrum, iVom which it 



* From e^ri, upon, aud JtyJ^o^, a tree ; llio branches of trees being the 

 usual habitations of such plants. 



