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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



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membranaceous, pale green, caducous spathes ; corolla six- 

 petalled, unequal, fastened to a coloured germen, the upper- 

 most petal spreading very much, pressed close to the spike, 

 ovate, sometimes obcordate, concave ; the two upper lateral 

 ones reflex towards the back of the upper one, ovate, smaller, 

 the two lower lateral ones more spreading, incumbent on 

 the lower, ovate, acute, very small, a little thicker, and more 

 coloured ; the lower petal flat, heart-shaped, a little less than 

 the uppermost ; the whole corolla orange-coloured ; filamenta 

 none ; germen club-shaped ; silique ovate. Observed by 

 Koenig at Malacca, growing upon the Tamarind. 



102. Epidendrum Longiflorum. Leaves growing to the 

 bulbs, solitary, subpetioled, erect, lanceolate, retuse ; margin 

 quite entire, recurved, smooth, fleshy, rigid, brittle; roots 

 in bundles, filiform, flexuose, parasitical ; stems creeping, 

 filiform, unequal, with a whitish bark; leaves more than a 

 palm in length, and two-thirds of an inch in breadth; bulbs 

 sessile, incumbent, straightish, solitary, ovate, grooved, 

 wrinkled, scarcely more than half an inch in length, yellow- 

 ish green ; scapes solitary by the side of the bulbs, simple, 

 erect, round, smooth, jointed, scaly, shorter that the leaves ; 

 petals unequal; the two upper ones approximating, linear, 

 oblong, curved at the base, and spreading, a little concave, 

 ciliate at the edge, nerved, having very small hairs scattered 

 over them ; the two side ones upright, oblong, flat, mem- 

 branaceous, small, scarcely longer than the truncated nec- 

 tary. In the morning the flowers are spread out, and hence 

 two petals are long, straight, and upright ; in the afternoon 

 they are pendulous. Native of the East Indies. 



103. Epidendrum Flabelltim. Leaves solitary, one from 

 each bulb, erect, petioled, lanceolate, oblong, quite entire, 

 emarginate, a little recurved, obscurely nerved, smooth, 

 fleshy, rigid ; roots filiform, flexuose, simple, parasitical ; 

 stem none; bulbs above the roots closely crowded, ovate, 

 quadrangular, wrinkled, the size of sparrows' eggs ; leaves a 

 palm long, and two-thirds of an inch broad ; petioles semi- 

 cylindric, channelled, a little twisted, short; peduncle at the 

 base of the bulb pressed close by a sheath, and another 

 sheath above the base, the rest naked, ending in an umbel 

 in an erect flat semicircle, with from six to nine flowers in a 

 row; pedicels erect, but spreading towards the end, a little 

 curved to one side, round, smooth, coloured ; corolla four- 

 petalled, unequal ; the upper petal erect, linear-lanceolate, 

 with two teeth at the tip, and a large ovate hole at the base, 

 where it appears to be tubular on account of the edges being 

 bent back; it is white, with a purple base, and more than an 

 inch long; the two side-petals are erect, obliquely lanceo- 

 late, a little incurved at the tips, the edges yellow, recurved, 

 and ciliate, with golden hairs ; they are longer than the nec- 

 tary, and of a blood-red colour; the lower petal spreading, 

 ovate, acute, inflated, striated, ciliate, membranaceous, 

 scarcely so long as the side ones, of a yellow-red colour; 

 antherse double, subglobular, yellow, small. Native of the 

 East Indies. 



104. Epidendrum Saaronicum. Leaves alternate, subbi- 

 farious, sessile, spreading, lanceolate, flatfish above, even, 

 streaked slightly, and having five more evident nerves, be- 

 neath smooth, with a small groove along the mid-rib, but no 

 streaks, emarginate, fleshy, rigid ; roots filiform in bundles 

 below the bulbs on the stems, parasitical, flexuose, smooth, 

 woody, whitish green, shining; stems subscandent, variously 

 branched, compressed a little, smooth, jointed, sometimes 

 sheathed, ferruginous, green, long; bulbs at the base of the 

 branches ; racemes terminating, simple, sometimes, though 

 rarely, a foot and a half in length; flowers nodding; sheaths 

 solitary, sessile, with scalelets between ; corolla boat-shaped, 



five-petalled, snow-white. It flowers in the morning, shutting 

 after noon, during several days. Native of the East Indies. 



105. Epidendrum Plantaginifolium. Leaves bifarious, 

 sheathing each other, erect, linear, three-sided, slightly 

 channelled, sharpish, smooth, fleshy, narrow at the base, next 

 the sheaths; roots fibrous, flexuose, parasitical ; stem none; 

 sheaths membranaceous, striated, margined, smooth, the 

 breadth of the leaves, short; spike axillary, simple, pedun- 

 cled, bifarious, erect, longer than the leaves ; peduncle erect, 

 smooth, compressed, a little jointed in the middle, having a 

 large, oblong, acute, membranaceous, caducous bracte ; the 

 upper one has two or three alternate smaller bractes ; flow- 

 ers on very short alternate pedicels, having involucres at the 

 base, which are lanceolate-ovate, acute, solitary, appressed, 

 membranaceous, whitish, much longer than the pedicels ; 

 corolla six-petalled, three outer larger, all spreading a little, 

 concave, membranaceous, whitish ; nectary a truncate body, 

 very small, covered by an inflated, semiglobular membrane ; 

 antheree two, twin, fastened to a single filamentum, oblique, 

 ovate-oblong, obscurely angular, smooth ; seeds very numer- 

 ous, white, thrown out to a considerable distance by very 

 slender elastic threads or hairs. Observed by Koenig in a 

 wood near Malacca, upon the upper boughs of very lofty 

 trees. 



106. Epidendrum Sessile. Leaves scattered from sessile 

 bulbs, spreading, subpetioled, retuse above, smooth, a little 

 channelled, beneath convex, fleshy; stems scandent, branch- 

 ed, round, filiform, scaly ; flowers among the scales in pairs, 

 seldom solitary, approximating to the stem, small. Instead 

 of a calix, an ovate, acute, keeled, scalelet, fastened to the 

 germen, inflated, membranaceous, white, short ; corolla six- 

 petalled ; three outer almost erect, ovate at the base, with 

 lengthened tips, slightly awned, equal, whitish, stifHsh ; two 

 inner lateral, fastened to the side of the nectary, erect, ovate, 

 oblong, quite entire, rounded at the tip, flat, membranaceous, 

 white, subtransparent, much shelter than the outer ones ; the 

 sixth or third inner petal is fastened to the upper tip of the 

 nectary, ascending, lanceolate, recurved, a little channelled, 

 longer than the two other interior ones, callous, yellowish ; 

 style none. Native of the East Indies. 



107. Epidendrum Liliitblium. Leaves from the bulbs sub- 

 petioled, erect at the base, more spreading at the tip, linear- 

 lanceolate, sharpish, smooth, keeled at the back, membrana- 

 ceous, scarcely rigid ; roots filiform, flexuose, white, parasi- 

 tical ; bulbs crowded, ovate, angular, grooved, pale green, 

 terminated by two, or seldom three leaves, the size of a lark's 

 egg; leaves dark green, scarcely a palm and a half long, and 

 four lines wide ; flowers from eighteen to thirty, pedicelled, 

 remote, the lower ones more so, alternate ; petals, the four 

 outer spreading very much, the lower and upper linear, acute, 

 a little incurved at the tip, concave, the side ones broader, 

 rounded at the tips, concave, more coloured, purple, all equal 

 in length, somewhat fleshy, purple at the tips, the rest white. 

 Native of the East Indies. 



108. Epidendrum Calceolariee Terrestre. Leaves spread- 

 ing, bifarious, sessile, ending in sheaths, oblong, lanceolate, 

 quite entire, slightly and obliquely emarginate, above even, 

 shining, beneath smooth, with from nine to fourteen nerves, 

 rigid ; the lower ones short, broader ; the upper longer, and 

 scarcely an inch broad ; roots creeping in the ground ; stem 

 simple, erect, round, sheathed, compressed, a little smooth, 

 jointed ; the interstices shorter than half the length of the 

 leaf, from three to four feet long, and half the size of a goose- 

 quill; sheaths at the joints closely involving the stem, mem- 

 branaceous, striated, two-keeled, blunt at the mouth, having 

 one toothlet opposite to the leaf, a little shorter than the 



