EPIDEN'DRUM SCHOMBURG@‘KII. 
~ SCHOMBURGK’S EPIDENDRUM. 
ENDOGEN:, OR MONOCOTYLEDONES. 
Natural division 
to which 
this plant belongs. 
GrnaNnmoam, acs divisions GYNANDRIA, 
to which MONANDRIA, 
LIN sake this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. 
No. 165. 
NUS. EpipEnprum. Linnzvus. Pericontt pie exteriora patentts, 
subequalia, interiora equalia vel angustiora aut rarius latiora. LasEeLLuM 
ungue cum marginibus columne omnino vel p atti concreto, limbo integro 
vel partito, disco sepius calloso, costato Pi tuberculato, interdum in calcar 
. Por tuor 
totidem replicatis. Hersa Americane tropice ae ayon | caule pseudobulboso 
vel elongato, foliis sepius carnosis. 
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SPECIES. Epmenprvm S 
obtusis ‘carnosis, caule sim mplici on aphyll 0 paces gr ese _petalisque 
ineari-lanceolatis acutis wqualibus patentissimis, ¢ clavata elongata, 
labelli trilobi basi bicalloso linea perm elevata, ‘obis larolibee lat rotun- 
datis laceris, intermedio cuneato apice triangulari crispo medio et utrinque 
acuminato. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, EpIDENDRUM. PERIGON spreading, 
the outer divisions nearly equal, the inner ones equal to them, or 
narrower, seldom broader. LasBeELLom with the claw connate with 
the column, either along its whole length or in part; the limb entire 
or divided; the disk usually callous, ribbed, or tuberculate, sometimes 
extending into a spur adhering to the ovary. Coxiumn elongated; 
the receptacle of the anther bordered, usually fringed. ANTHER fleshy, 
two or four-celled. POLLEN masses four, with as many bent back 
caudicles. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, EpIDENDRUM SCHOMBURGKII. 
EPpIpHyTE growing to the height of two or three feet, without pseudo- 
bulbs. Stem leafy in its lower half, having in the upper part none 
but closely appressed sheathing squamz. Leaves sheathing at the 
base, distichous, spreading, oblong, blunt, thick and fleshy, spotted 
with dark pink in a wild state, according to Schomburgk, generally 
two or three inches long. FLOWERS in a terminal raceme, which 
from the closeness of the pedicels to each other, takes the form of a 
loose head. Pepicexs simple, one-flowered, each at the axil of 
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