PLATE CCCCXLI. 
EPIDENDRUM FUSCATUM. 
_ Brown-flowered Epidendrum. 
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CLASS. XxX. :-GRDER I. 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointels. Two Chives. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
- Necraxivum turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum. Honey-cup top-shaped, oblique. and reflexed. 
See Pl, XIII. Vol. I. Epidendrum cochlea- 
tum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Eripenprvm, foliis lanceolatis, caulem vagina EripenpRuM, with lance-shaped leaves, alter- 
alterne tegentibus, contortis, atro-purpureo nately sheathing the stem, twisted, and 
discoloratis ; floribus umbellatis termina- discoloured with a deep purple: flowers 
libus fuscatis, leviter punctatis, vel striatis. terminate the branches in umbels, of a 
brownish colour, dotted or striped. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The nectary, or honey-cup. 
2. The blossom detached. 
3. The seed-bud, chives, and pointal, the hood lifted up that covers the chives. 
4, The same magnified. 
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Amonest this numerous parasitic tribe there are many whose claim to beauty is by no means power= * 
fal, and certainly the present figure has little to boast of in that particular: but the singular and curious 
structure of their flowers will always render every new species and even distinct varieties desirable, par 
ticularly as they are an essential connecting link in the interesting family of the Orchidie. We were 
at first inclined to regard it as the E. fuscatum of Dr. Smith on rare plants; but on comparison with 
that figure we found it in foliage nearly the same, but so different both in the size and colour of its 
flowers, that, if it might be regarded as a variety, it must certainly be avery distinct one. It is a 
_ native of Jamaica, and as such requires the protection of the stove, From a plant plunged in the tan- 
“Bed-our drawing was made at the gardens of G. Hibbert, esq. : 
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