PLATE CCCXLIV. 
EPIDENDRUM ENSIFOLIUM. 
Sword /haped-leaved Epidendrum. 
CLASS XX. ORDER I. 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA . Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Necrarium turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum. Honey-Curp top-fhaped, oblique and reflexed. 
| See Pl, XIII. Vol, I. EpipENDRUM COCHLEATUM, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Epidendrum {capo tereti, lavi; foliis enfiformi- Epidendrum with a round f{mooth ftem; leaves 
bus; petalis lanceolatis glabris; labio lan- {word-fhaped ; petals lance-fhaped, fmooth ; 
ceolato, recurvato, maculato. . lip lance-fhaped, recurved and fpotted. 
_ - REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The lip, detached from the flower. 
2. A Flower from which the lip has been feparated. 
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Tue Sword-fhaped-leaved Epidendrum is a native of China and Japan, was cultivated, before det 
in the gardens of the Marchionefs of Rockingham, at Hillindon, Middlefex. It has more the habt 
and character of Limodorum than Epidendrum, to which genus it was firft placed; and, like the a 
dendrum finense of this work, Plate CCXVI. Vol. III. requires but little heat to keep it 19 oer 
preferring a fandy loam to any other matter, for its nourifhment. It, like the forenamed, and te 
ral other fpecies of this genus, or rather of the genus Limodorum, not being thick-leaved, or ue ’ 
where indigenous, are of confequence much eafier preferved and increafed than thofe of —. a rf 
tion. Its flowers, which are produced in September or October, are very fragrant, particular’y Ws 
evening, continue in perfe€tion above a month. It is propagated by parting the roots in the mop 
of May. . 
Our drawing was made from a plant in the Hibbertian Colleton. 
