PLATE CCXVIL 
EPIDENDRUM SINENSE. 
Chinese Epidendrum. 
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CLASS X&% - ORDER. I. 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA, Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Necrartum turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum, || Honey-cup top-fhaped, oblique and reflexed. 
See Plate XIII, Vol. I. EpipzeNpDRUM COCHLEATUM. 
: SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Epidendrum foliis enfiformibus, nervofis, radica- 
libus; ne@ario revoluto, punétato; petalis 
ftriatis. ; 
Epidendrum with fword-fhaped leaves, nerved, 
andjgrowing from theroot ; honey-cuprolled 
back, and dotted ; petals firiped. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A flower, one of the petals and the honey-cup cut off ; to thew the fituation, 
and place of the parts of fruétification. 
2. The Honey-cup. 
3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, Summit, and Chives; the {mall hood which covers the 
Chives, lifted up. — 5 
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__ Tuis long genus of plants, fo little known hitherto, but in our books, bids fair to become one of the 
greateft ornaments of our hot-houfes; 20 {pecies we already enumerate, in the different colle@ions in 
_ the vicinity of London; one of which, the prefent plant, has not flowered in this kingdom, till this year, 
_ although introduced, fo long ago as 1793, by the late J- Slater, Efq. of Layton-ftone ; at the fame time 
_ with the two varieties of the Double Camellia, from China. Our figure was taken in September 1801, 
_ from a plant which had been placed in the {pring of the fame year, in the Confervatory built on pur- 
pofe for the protection of Chinefe plants, and where they flourith to a degree, not feen before in this 
country, inthe garden of G, Hibbert Efq. Clapham common. It is propagated by offsets, from the 
root ; is rather a hardy hot-houfe plant ; and thrives moft in a mixture of fandy loam, and peat; about 
one fourth of the loam, and three fourths peat, or leaf-mould. 
Upon the firft obfervation of this plant, we were inclined to think it the fpécies defigned by Thun- 
berg in his Icon. Plant. Japon. 28, under the Genus Limodorum 3 and afterwards, altered by him, in 
the Linnzan Tranf. Vol. ii. p. 327, to Epidendrum ftriatum. But upon clofe examination of it, as an- 
{wering his defcriptions, &c.. we cannot but think it, if not a different fpecies, at leaft a very ftrong va- 
riety of his plant ; wherefore, we have retained the name it is in common known by, in the various 
collections in which we have feen it. If we were to decide on the fubje&, it fhould be to place both’ 
that and this plant again to Limodorum; to which, they hold greater affinity than to Epidendrum ; 
but indeed, we have an opinion, that one title might readily ferye for the plants conftituting both genera, 
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