conical, pale yellowish-green, occasionally reddish at its base. Pollen- 
masses four, yellow, attached by a filament exceeding them in length. 
Germen an inch long, furrowed, enlarging upwards, pink. 
« The mode of growth of this plant is curious, and analogous to that of other 
genera among the Orchidee. A bud forms immediately above a joint, 
from this one or more flowering-branches are sent forth, and from the 
origin of these many roots arise: branches with roots in like manner 
proceed from these, and others from these again, each after flowering 
gradually to decay. Perhaps the plant, therefore, would be 
portion being what for convenience is here called a branch.”—Granam, 
MSS. 
This plant was received from Rio through Captain GranaM, 
in 1824, and flowered in the stove of the Edinburgh Botanic 
Garden in March 1826. From Ep. elongatum it diffe i in 
the shape and texture of the leaves, and especially in the lip of 
the flower, which has the middle lobe linear, and much smaller 
than the lateral ones, whereas in Z. elongatum it ingh the 
same size and shape as these. 
Fig. 1. Flower seen in front. Fig.2. Anther-case. Fig. 3. Sia aie, 
magnified. a, b, c,d, Are stems or branches of different ages ; a, the 
oldest was connected with 4, close to the surface of the earth, and c, d, 
_ had their origin at the same time from the - joint e, from which they 
were only detached by accident ; a, is now quite dead, and ¢ has little 
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one represented in the figure, much more freely. At f, a small swelling 
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