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EPIDENDRUM notays. 
Drooping-flowered Epidendrum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nart. Orv. ORCHIDEL. 
Div. Anth. terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demum cereacew. 
Gen. Cuar.—Columna cum ungue labelli longitudinaliter connata in tabum 
(quandoque decurrentem ovarium). Masse pollinis 4, parallele, septis 
completis persistentibus distincte, basi filo granulato elastico aucte.— 
Br. 
Epidendrum natans; caule simplici, foliis oyato-lanceolatis amplexi- 
caulibus; floribus subspicatis nutantibus, lamina labelli triloba, lobo 
intermedio tridentato.—Sw. 
Epidendrum nutans, Swartz, Fi. Ind. Occ. p. 1499—Wixp. Sp. Pl. p. 117- 
—Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 209.—Bot. Reg. t. 17. 
Root, according to Swartz, of several thick, filiform, long, white fibres. 
Stem from 1 to 2 feet high, about the thickness of one’s little finger, erect, 
or horizontal when growing from the trunks of trees, simple, nearly 
cylindrical, yellowish-green, almost formed by the sheathing bases of the 
leaves, Leaves oblongo-lanceolate, thick, fleshy, dark green, distichous, 
scarcely striated, rather acute, sheathing and amplexicaul at the base. 
Spike of flowers large, handsome, terminal, from 6 to 8 inches long, some- 
times branched, the branches divaricated, flexuose. There are 3 or 4 
large marcescent braclee towards the base of the common flower-stalk, 
and smaller ones at the base of each flower, which, however, soon fall 
away. The color of the flowers is one, almost entirely uniform, pale 
yellow-green, the column and the labellum only being of a more yellow 
or lemon colour. : 
Segments of the Perianth spreading, soon reflexed, the 3 outer ones oblongo- 
spathulate, uniform; the 2 inner or lateral ones almost linear, obtuse. 
firmly united with the under side of the column, the lamina 
only being free ; this is rather large, horizontally Aleflexed, 3-lobed, the 
two lateral lobes the largest, rounded, the intermediate three, toothed; the 
shorter than the segments of the perianth, standing out nearly eee re 
tally, clavate, 2-lobed at the extremity, with a sinus at the top for ° | 
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