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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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89. Epidendrum Calceolaria. Leaves bifarious, alternate, 

 remote, spreading very much, awl-shaped, thick, smooth ; 

 roots capillaceous, numerous, flexuose, whitish ; stems many, 

 crowded, roundish, fiexuose, jointed, perennial, scarcely a 

 span high ; racemes terminating, simple ; flowers remote. 

 Native of the East Indies. 



90. Epidendrum Hexandrum. Leaves bifarious, alternate, 

 spreading, a little sessile, ending in sheaths, somewhat re- 

 moved, lanceolate, emarginate, with a point, rigid ; root 

 capillaceous, flexuosc, white, parasitical ; stems several, round, 

 naked a little way above the root, the rest covered with 

 oblong, tubular, acute, striated, rigid, whitish scales. The 

 whole plant is scarcely a foot high ; the leaves are smooth, 

 and the flowers white. Native of the East Indies. 



91. Epidendrum Ophrydis. Leaves alternate, sheathing, 

 from erect spreading, ovate, acute, quite entire, nerved, 

 smooth; a little bulbed on the surface, membranaceous, 

 shorter than the scape, ending in tubular, keeled, smooth 

 sheaths ; roots fibrous, filiform, hirsute, white, fixed in the 

 ground ; scape erect, clothed with sheaths and leaves, round, 

 grooved, acute, red, with recurved, linear, acute, smooth, 

 green, long stipules, scattered over it, a foot high or more ; 

 spike erect, cylindrical, closely set with blood-red flowers, 

 a palm and a half in length, the thickness of the middle 

 finger. Native of the East Indies. 



92. Epidendrum Supplex. Leaves crowded, sword-shaped, 

 sheathing, compressed, quite entire, acute, smooth, fleshy. 

 This plant grows upon trees by capillaceous fibres, a little 

 compressed; stem none; spikes terminating, naked at the 

 base, filiform, longer than the leaves, scarlet. Native of the 

 East Indies. 



93. Epidendrum Orchideum. Leaves bifarious, alternate, 

 sessile, spreading, lanceolate, quite entire, acute, smooth, 

 fleshy, rigid. This plant is parasitical by means of filiform, 

 branched, smooth, green fibres ; stems simple, pendulous, 

 jointed, leafy, flexuose, sheathed, thicker than the roots, two 

 feet long, and a little more slender at the base ; flowers above 

 the leaves usually solitary; spathes heart-shaped, small, some- 

 what fleshy, yellow, caducous; petals lanceolate, yellow, 

 with large darker spots ; the two upper ones ascending, the 

 middle one spreading from the lower petals ; the two lateral 

 ones larger, more reflexed towards the back, narrower, all 

 concavo-convex. Native of the East Indies. 



94. Epidendrum Pusillurn. Shoots in bundles, appressed, 

 a span long; racemes solitary, simple, upright, compressed, 

 naked at bottom, toothletted towards the tip, smooth ; roots 

 capillaceous, few, white ; parasitical ; shoots in bundles, 

 pressed close to the bark, little branched, sometimes jointed, 

 unequal, a span long, hoary, green ; racemes half an inch 

 long, green rust-colour; flowers alternate, spreading; petals 

 fastened to the nectary, erect, linear-lanceolate, acute, a 

 little longer than the nectary, equal, yellow; nectary trun- 

 cated at the base. Native of the East Indies. 



95. Epidendrum Complanatum. Leaves alternate, sessile, 

 spreading, linear, moon-shaped, retuse, smooth; upper surface 

 concave; lower keeled, fleshy; roots filiform, very long, 

 whitish-green, parasitical; stem, with the long roots, com- 

 monly pendulous, roundish, sheathed with leaves, simple, 

 short ; leaves scarcely a span in length ; petals linear, acute, 

 pendulous, smooth, narrow, yellow. Native of the East 

 Indies. 



96. Epidendrum Clavatum. Leaves alternate, sessile, 

 spreading, a little linear, club-shaped, with two unequal 

 teeth at the end, smooth, flat, having a large nerve, depressed 

 above, permanent beneath ; roots filiform, white, parasitical ; 

 stems at the threads of the roots pendulous, round, sheathed 



with leaves, short; leaves bright green ; spikes short, oppo- 

 site to the leaves, spreading very much, peduncled, club- 

 shaped ; peduncles roundish, smooth, with a few coloured 

 dots, woody, scarcely the length of the leaves; bractes soli- 

 tary, pressed close, heart-shaped, smooth, rigid towards the 

 niddle of it; corolla six-petalled, or more properly one- 

 letalled, five segments spreading, linear-lanceolate, nearly 

 equal, yello-v, long. Native of the East Indies. 



97. Epidendrum Subulatum. Leaves alternate, erect, 

 sessile, awl-shaped, cylindric, smooth, acute; sheaths obtuse, 

 margined, smooth, with minute dark purple dots, short; 

 roots filiform, smooth, white, parasitical; stems simple, erect, 

 round, smooth, sheathed, short; leaves a span long; nectary 

 in the disk of the flower, surrounded by the lower petals, 

 semicylindric, obtuse, smooth, snow-while, with the edge of 

 the blunt apex of a most elegant carmine colour; antherce 

 two, sessile on the truncated concave body, enclosed in the 

 scalelet, yellow; silique filiform, smooth, roundish. Native 

 of the East Indies. 



98. Epidendrum Nudum. Stem none ; peduncles simple, 

 one-flowered, with two or three smooth membraneous tubu- 

 lar sheaths, investing the younger peduncles with an oblique 

 mouth, caducous ; roots filiform, branched, smooth, green, 

 parasitical; peduncles several, round, woody, sheathed, 

 jointed; corolla monopetalous, irregular; tube erect, capilla- 

 ceous, with hairs scattered over it, snow-white, long; border 

 double, lower four-parted. Native of the East Indies. 



99. Epidendrum Tomentosum. Leaves from the bulbs 

 usually four, seldom two or three, alternate, almost erect, 

 bifarious at the base, half sheathing the bulb, oblong, quite 

 entire, acute, concave, recurved at the tip, smooth, eight- 

 nerved, fleshy ; roots parasitical, filiform, round, clothed 

 with scales, flexuose from one bulb to another, the thickness 

 of a goose-quill, putting out bristle-shaped thickish fibres, 

 especially below the bulbs, of a chestnut colour; bulbs above 

 the root almost erect, sessile, obovate, compressed, wrinkled, 

 terminated by leaves, scarcely the size of a hen's egg; flowers 

 racemed, distich, subalternate, peduncled ; peduncles spread- 

 ing, round, covered with a chestnut nap, shorter than the 

 spathes; corolla irregular, consisting of double petals; the 

 outer monopetalous, navicular, ascending. Native of the 

 East Indies. 



100. Epidendrum Bidentatum. Leaves sheathing each 

 other, three or four, seldom five, sword-shaped, bifarious, 

 sessile, quite entire, with two sharp toothlets at the tip, 

 smooth on both sides, keeled at the back; roots filiform, 

 slightly complicated, a little flexuose, smooth, whitish-green, 

 very long; stem scarcely any; corolla six-petalled, fastened 

 to the germen below the nectary ; the two lateral ones are 

 obliquely ovate, erect, smooth, yellow ; the three surround- 

 ing the back of the nectary, erect, of these the two more 

 lateral ones are lanceolate, the third outer one is broader 

 and ovate; filamentum single, fastened to the truncated 

 body, flat, membranaceous, white, short; silique oblong, 

 angular. Native of the East Indies. 



101. Epidendrum Lycopodioides. Stems crowded at the 

 roots, pendulous, simple, compressed; leaves alternate, bifa- 

 rious, sheathing one another at the base, pressed close above 

 the sheaths, lanceolate, acute, a little margined, smooth, 

 fleshy; roots simple, filiform, slender, flexuose, scariose, 

 hoary, green, fastened to the bark of the Mangostan-tree; 

 stems three or more, sometimes, but seldom, above a foot 

 lon^; spikes terminating, solitary, peduncled, cylindric, 

 acute, resembling spikes of Wolfs Claw Moss, (Lycopodium,) 

 but not so thick, and two inches long; flowers sessile, closely 

 approximating, covered with heart-shaped, ciliate, appressed, 



