PLATE CCCCXLV. 
EPIDENDRUM LINEARE. 
Linear-leaved Epidendrum. 
mHASS XxX; ORDER q; 
GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives, 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Honey-cur top-shaped, oblique, and reflexed. 
See Pl. XIII. Vol. I. Epidendrum cochlea- 
tum. ‘ ; 
_ Necrarivum turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Eripenpxum, foliis linearibus, caulem va- EripenpruM, with linear leaves, alternately 
gina alterne tegantibus, apice crenatis: flo- sheathing the stem, and notched at the end: 
ribus terminalibus, spicatis, alternatis, pur- flowers terminate the branches in a spike, 
pureis ; caulis juncinus, longus, gracilis, alternate, and purple: stem rush-like, 
long, and slender. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The blossom without the honey-cup, msred open to show the chives. 
2. The same magnified. 
3. The honey-cup magnified. 
4. The pointal magnified. 
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In the Icones of Jacquin we find a figure of this Epidendrum, under the appellation we have adopted, 
but evidently taken from a dried specimen, with a reference to the Icones of Father Plumier 182, fig. 1. 
under the title of Heleborine ; but on comparison we find no affinity sufficiently powerful to induce us 
to regard them as representing the same plant. In Plumier’s figure there is'no incisure at the end of 
the leaves, a specific character in our plant ; the rest of the figure is also too obscure to admit of com- 
parison. The plant, from its long and slender stalks, acquires a graceful bend when in flower. Asa 
native of Jamaica it requires the tan-bed of the hot-stove for its protection; and, like many other tro- 
pical plants, is subject to lose much of its beauty by the loss of the leaves on the lower part of the stem. 
Oar figure was made from the Hibbertian Collection, 
