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_ EPIDENDRUM? monopnyiivm. 
One-leafed Ejndendrum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nar. Orv. ORCHIDE#. 
Drv. Anthera terminalis, mobilis, decidua. Masse pollinis demum cereacee. 
Gen. Cuar.—Columna cum ungue labelli longitudinaliter connata in tubum 
(quandoque decurrentem ovarium). Masse pollinis 4, parallel, septis 
completis persistentibus distinctz, basi filo granulato elastico auctee—Br. 
Epidendrum? monophyllum; caule unifolio, folio elliptico-lanceolato ob- 
tuso, racemo paucifloro e sinu folii, petalis conniventibus una cum 
labello lanceolatis, duobus interioribus minutis, columna superne 
alata dentata. 
Root parasitic, consisting of a few short, simple, flexuose fibres. Stems two 
or three together, scarcely ever exceeding an inch in length, erect, slen- 
der, surmounted by a single elliptical, lanceolate, fleshy, pale green, ob- 
tuse leaf, which has a midrib, but is destitute of nerves. 
From the base of the leaf proceeds the flowerstalk, bearing two small blos- 
soms, each of which is surrounded at the base with a sheathing bractea. 
into a sort of hood, formed by the concave, broadly winged an 
margin: the base running down towards the base of the lip, deep purple. 
vers the stigma, 2-celled ; each cell having a pollen-mass composed of two 
Pieces, yellow, waxy, united at their — 
Germen very short, purple, tuberculated, not twisted ? 
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