PLATE CCXVI. 



EPIDENDRUM SINENSE. 



Chinefe Kpidendrum. 



CLASS XX. ORDER L 

 GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Nectarium turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum. || Honey-cup top-fhaped, oblique and reflexed. 



See Plate XIII. Vol. I. Epidendrum cochleatum. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Epidendrum foliis enfiformibus, nervofis, radica- 

 libus; neft:irio revoluto, punflato; petalis 

 flriatis. 



Epidendrum with fword fhaped leaves, nerved, 

 and'growing from the root; iioney-cup rolled 

 back, and dotted ; petals llriped. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A flower, one of the petals and the honey-cup cut ofl'j to lliew the fituation, 



and place of the parts of fruiStification. 



2. The Honey-cup. 



;i. The Seed-bud, Shaft, Summit, and Chives; the fmall hood which covers the 

 Chives, lifted up. 



This 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 fpecieswe already enumeratej in the different colledions 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 1/93, by the late J. Slater, Efq. of Layton-ftone ; at the fame time 

 witli 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 fpring of the fame year, in the Confervatory built on pur- 

 pofe for the protedion of Chitiefe plants, and where they flourilh to a degree, not feen before in this 

 country, in the garden of G. Hibbert Efq. Clapham common. It is propagated by off'sets, from the 

 root ; is rather a hardy hot-houfe plant ; and thrives mod 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 fpecies defigned byThun- 

 berg in his Icon. Plant. Japon. 28, under the Genus Limodorum ; and afterwards, altered by him, in 

 the Linnaean Tranf. Vol. ii. p. 327, to Epidendrum Ikiatum. But upon clofe examination of it, as an- 

 fwering his defcriptions, Sec. 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 

 colledions in which we have feen it. If we were to decide on the fubjeft, it fliould 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 ferve for the plants conlUtuting both genera. 



