- EPIDENDRUM COCHLEATUM. 
| — Purple flowered Epidendrum. 
CLASS XX. ORDER I. 
Ss GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. 
3 ae GENERIC CHARACTER. 
nee Caryx. Spathe vage. Spadix fimplex. Pe- EmpaLementT. Sheaths fcattered. Fruit-ftalk 
=) - rianthium nullum. mple. Cup none. 
‘ Corotxa. Petala quinque, oblonga, longiffima, Brossom. Five petals, oblong, of a great length, 
patentiffima. and fpreading much. 
_ Neéarium bafi tubulatum, turbinatum, Honey-cup tubular at the bafe, turban- 
intra petala deorfum pofitum, ore obliquo, fhaped, placed between the lower petals, 
a bifido: fuperiori labio breviffimo, trifido; mouth oblique and divided : the uppet 
inferiori in acumen produdto. lip very fhort, cut into three divifions; the 
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_-Sramina. Filamenta duo, breviffima, piftillo 
am infidentia. Anthere teétz labio fuperiore 
Pistirtum. Germen tenue, longum, contor- 
_ tum, inferum. Stylus breviffimus, adnatus 
____ labio fuperiori neGarii. Stigma obfoletum, 
ERICARPIUM. Siliqua longiffima, teres, car- 
lower terminating in a point. 
Cuives. Two very fhort threads, fixed on the 
pointal. Tips covered by the upper lip of 
the honey-cup. 
lip of the honey-cup. Summit blunt. 
SEED-vesseL. Pod very long, round, and 
PoinTat. Seed-bud flender, long, twifted, and - 
el beneath. Shaft very fhort, fixed to the upper 
Pas : efh 
_ Seotwa numerofa, minutiffima. SEEDs numerous, extremely {mall. 
Beier anc SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
—- Epidendrum. foliis oblongis, geminis, glabris, Epidendrum with oblong leaves growing by 
__ bulbo innatis; feapo multifloro; neGario pairs, fmooth, rifing from the bulb; ftalk 
____ €ordato, purpureo, many flowered; honey-cup heart-fhaped 
, and purple. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Bloffom, without the Honey-cup; difpofed to thew the fituation of the Chives, and 
i Pointal, which are covered by the Honey-cup. 
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-__Orall plants, none furnish a more agreeable fpeculation to the Botanift, than thofe of this clafs; the 
___ fingular conftruétion of the whole flower, leads the obferver to form a 
of which ifland it is a native; therefore mutt be kept 
fiove. It is propagated by dividing the bulbs. 
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