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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



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roundish, waved, emarginate ; horn adnate. It has many thick 

 white fibres, like those of Leeks, or the tendrils of Ivy, taking 

 firm hold of the bark of trees, and matted together; these 

 send out one thick, greenish, roundish, compressed, bulbous, 

 or tuberous leaf, of an inch diameter, covered with some 

 brown withered filamenta; from the top of this come two 

 smooth, striated, hollow, hard, pale green leaves, three inches 

 long and one broad, between which springs out a naked, 

 brown, jointed, round, smooth stalk, about a foot high, near 

 the top of which stand several long, reddish, purple flowers. 

 Native of Jamaica, where it is found in the savanna woods, 

 growing upon the Ebonies and other trees. 



65. Epidendrum Labiatum. Leaves radical, oblong; mid- 

 dle bulb solitary, one-leafed ; scapes few-flowered ; lip ob- 

 long, with a fleshy corpuscle growing to it at top. Native of 

 Hispaniola. 



66. Epidendrum Polybulbon. Stem creeping, bulb-bear- 

 ing; bulbs two-leaved, one-flowered ; flower peduncled ; lip 

 heart-shaped. Native of Jamaica. 



67. Epidendrum Proliferum. Caulescent: leaves distich, 

 subimbricate, ovate ; bulbs from the sheaths of the leaves 

 two-leaved; flowers axillary, sessile. Native of Jamaica. 



68. Epidendrum Vestitum. Stem leafless, imbricate all 

 round with sheaths, roundish, bulb-bearing; bulbs growing 

 on the leaf; flowers crowded from the sheaths of the stem. 

 Native of Jamaica. 



69. Epidendrum Vomiforme. Caulescent: leaves growing 

 on the bulbs, ovate-acuminale, convex, channelled, three- 

 sided beneath ; scapes from the bosom of the leaves. Native 

 of Jamaica. 



70. Epidendrum Echinocarpon. Stem compressed, de- 

 cumbent, one-flowered ; leaves imbricate all round, distich, 

 ovate; capsules muricate. Roots small, branched, fibrous ; 

 stems pendent, simple; leaves alternate, numerous, small, 

 reflex, quite entire, subtomentose, stem-clasping. From the 

 axils of the leaves, flowers solitary, on very short peduncles; 

 corolla of a coral red colour, the upper and the two lower 

 petals of the same size and figure, the two lateral ones larger 

 and wider ; nectary small, three-lobed, the two upper lobes 

 rounded and concave, the lower emarginate ; capsule red, 

 ovate, warted. Native of Guiana, where it is found on the 

 trunks of old trees, which are sometimes found quite covered 

 with it 



71. Epidendrum Trichocarpon. Stem compressed, round, 

 rooting; leaves imbricate all round, distich, linear; capsules 

 tomentose. Native of Jamaica. 



72. Epidendrum Glaucum. Stem compressed, almost up- 

 right, many-flowered ; leaves imbricate all round, distich, 

 broad lanceolate, very smooth, glaucous beneath ; capsules 

 naked. Native of Jamaica. 



73. Epidendrum Graminoides. Stem erect, compressed, 

 many-flowered ; leaves imbricate all round, distich, remote, 

 linear; peduncles longer. Native of Jamaica. 



74. Epidendrum Micranthum. Stem one-leafed ; leaf broad 

 lanceolate ; raceme very long, filiform ; flowers pointing one 

 way, roundish, six-cornered. Native of Jamaica. 



75. Epidendrum Trigoniflorum. Stem one-leafed ; leaf 

 oblong-lanceolate ; raceme the length of the leaves ; flowers 

 mostly pointing one way, three-cornered. This is a small 

 parasitical plant, only about four inches high ; roots fibrous, 

 whitish, numerous; leaf cauline, acute, quite entire, coria- 

 ceous, rigid, veinless, flat, shining, two or three inches long; 

 flowers small, directed all to the same side, without scent, 

 on short peduncles, of a dirty yellow colour. Native of the 

 mountain woods in Jamaica and Martinico. 



76. Epidendrum Racemiflorum. Stem one-leafed; leaf 



ovate ; raceme longer than the leaves ; flowers pointing one 

 way, inner petals ovate.- -Native of Jamaica. 



77. Epidendrum Alpestre. Stem one-leafed ; leaf ovate- 

 lanceolate ; racemes loose ; keels of the capsules muricate. 

 Native of Hispaniola. 



78. Epidendrum Laxum. Stem one-leafed ; leaf oblong; 

 raceme the length of the leaves; inner petals awl-shaped ; 

 lip ovate; capsules naked. Native of Jamaica. 



79. Epidendrum Ovale. Stem one-leafed; leaf ovate, 

 acuminate ; raceme pressed close, many-flowered ; petals 

 roundish, the inner ones remote in front at the base; cap- 

 sules pedicelled. Native of Jamaica. 



80. Epidendrum Pulchellum. Stem one-leafed ; leaf round- 

 ish, acute; raceme loose, few-flowered; petals acuminate, 

 ciliate, the inner one crossed at the tip. Native of Jamaica. 



81. Epidendrum Tridentatum. Stem one-leafed; leaf 

 ovate-acute, three-toothed at the tip; raceme many-flowered; 

 flowers three-sided, acuminate ; petals of the nectary erect, 

 bowed inwards. Native of Jamaica. 



82. Epidendrum Cochlearifolium. Stem one-leafed ; leaf 

 orbiculate, concavo-convex ; raceme few-flowered. Native 

 of Jamaica. 



83. Epidendrum Funale. Leafless, filiform, rooting : pe- 

 duncle two-flowered; lip two-lobed; horn very short, awl- 

 shaped. Native of Jamaica. 



84. Epidendrum Filiforme. Leafless, filiform, rooting: 

 peduncles subtriflorous ; lip ovate ; horn very short, headed 

 at the tip. Native of Hispaniola. 



85. Epidendrum Concretum. Leaves radical, lanceolate- 

 acute; nectary concrete with the petals. This plant is para- 

 sitical, and only a foot high ; roots fibrous, whitish, thick, 

 round, long; leaves radical, two, three, or four, lanceolate- 

 acute, coriaceous, flat, stiffish, quite entire ; scape simple, 

 compressed, erect, ten-flowered, or thereabouts ; common 

 peduncles few, lateral, few-flowered; flowers small, sessile. 

 Native of Martinico. 



86. Epidendrum Ccbolleta. Leaf radical, single, awl- 

 shaped, knot-rooted; raceme compound. It is a parasitical 

 plant; roots round, fibrous, numerous. Native of Cartha- 

 getia, especially in the woods on the coast. The leaf of this 

 plant is smooth and fleshy, a finger in thickness at the bot- 

 tom, and from one to two, or sometimes four feet in length, 

 ending at the base in a knot or roundish tubercle, permanent 

 after the leaf is decayed. The natives call it Ci'bolletas, 

 (Cibouls,) or little bulbs, and make use of the tubercles, 

 triturated with salt, in violent contusions, fractures, &c. It 

 is entirely void of smell. 



87. Epidendrum Spathulatum. Leaves bifarious, alter- 

 nate, approximating, prcemorse, with a double lip, coriaceous, 

 scarcely a foot long; peduncles axillary, almost erect, some- 

 times pendulous, round, smooth, jointed, woody at the joints, 

 bracted, undivided half way, a foot and a half long, within 

 the raceme angular; pedicels spreading very much, scattered, 

 bracted at the base, round, smooth, white, the length of the 

 flowers; bractes oblong, pressed close, acute, rust-coloured; 

 petals united at the base to the nectary, flat; two lateral 

 spreading very much, ovate, broad, acute, larger; three infe- 

 rior obovate, the middle one largest, all snow-white, with a 

 large rose-coloured one at the end. Native of the East Indies. 



88. Epidendrum Variegatum. Leaves alternate, spreading, 

 sheathing, ovate-acute, three-nerved, waved, smooth, varie- 

 gated ; stem none; scape erect, a palm high, solitary, seldom 

 two, angular, striated, smooth, coloured, terminated by an 

 oblong raceme ; peduncles simple, subalternate, spreading 

 very much, roundish, club-shaped, striated, coloured, scarcely 

 the length of the flowers. Native of the East Indies. 





