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EPIDENDRUM CAPARTIANUM Lt. uinp. 
Dr. CAPART’S EPIDENDRUM. 
EPIDENDRUM. Perigonii foliola exteriora patentia subaequalia ; interiora aequalia vel angustiora aut rarius 
atiora. Labellum ungue cum marginibus gynostematis omnino vel partim concretum, limbo integro vel partito, disco 
saepius calloso, costato vel tuberculato, interdum in calcar ovario adnatum productum. Gynostema elongatum, clinan- 
drio marginato saepius fimbriato. Anthera carnosa 2-4 locularis. Polliniorum caudiculis totidem replicatis. 
Herbae Americanae tropicae epiphyticae ; caule nunc basi vel apice pseudobulboso, nunc elongato apice 
folios, foliiso carnosis vel rarissime striato-venosis, floribus spicatis racemosis corymbosis vel paniculatis terminalibus 
lateralibusve. 
Linn. Gen. 1016. — LINDL. Gen, Plant., 1371. 
Epidendrum Capartianum, Pseudobulbis elongato-obpyriformibus, mono-diphyllis ; foliis coriaceis, lineari-lanceo- 
latis, obtusiusculis, basi conduplicatis caeteris planiusculis; scapo elongato, laevi, inferne nudo, superne 5-6-floro; 
floribus pro genere magnis, longiuscule pedicellatis; sepalis carnosis, anguste obovatis, obtusis, apice leviter incrassatis, 
petalis carnosulis, late ovato-quadrangulis, distincte unguiculatis, apice obtusis vel subrotundatis; labello libero vel 
fere libero, paullo infra medium valde constricto sinubus latis obtusisque, lobis lateralibus magnis suborbicularibus 
integerrimis, terminali late subrotundato profundiuscule emarginato margine crispulo, disco costis 2 crassis basi 
apiceque confluentibus munito dein tenuiter breviterque 5-costulato; columna_dorso rotundata, antice basi foveolata, 
apice biauriculata, auriculis latis subquadrangulis antice porrectis. 
Patria Brasilia. 
Epidendrum Capartianum L. Lin. supra. 
his interesting species was introduced from Brazil, two years ago, by 
4) L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, Brussels; we recognized it as a new 
a9 one, and dedicated it since that time to the renowned practician and 
Oranidist D* Caparr, of Brussels, under the name of which we describe it now. 
E. Capartianum has pseudobulbs 3-5 inches long, 1 1/2-2 inches across at 
the base, light green at first, passing into brownish with age, often covered with 
a white pellicle, formed by the dry old leaves. The leaves, which are one or two 
in number, borne at the top of the pseudobulbs, are dull green, somewhat thick 
and leathery, linear-lanceolate, a little obtuse, conduplicate at the base, the 
remainder plane, somewhat keeled along the median nerve, 9-19 inches long, 
1 1/4-1 3/4 inch broad. The peduncle, borne at the top of the bulbs, is somewhat 
slender, terete, more than 24 inches long, unbranched or sometimes a little 
branched, green stained with vinous purple, and covered with a number of small 
whitish oblong dots; it bears five to six flowers on its upper half; the nodes little 
prominent, distant about 3-4 inches, are clothed with scarious sheaths, triangular, 
distinctly nerved, the lower ones about 2/5 inch long, the others progressively 
decreasing, and turning into reddish bracts 1 1/2-2 lines long. The pedicels are 
spreading, greenish white, somewhat compressed upwards, 2/5 to 3/5 inch long. The 
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