EO 
he te for the moft part, on the trunks o se nches o 
eld trees, in tropical ois Willd. ea 
t. Holm. r8co. p. 24 racts on Botany, 197. Schr 
Journal, 1799, 234. t. 2. f. x. Sw. Orchid. in: Schr a 
Neues Journ. v. 1. 92. Clafs and order, — Monan- 
dria. a Ord. a whe Juff. 
h. Ea 
r. Petals two, oblong, lateral ; erent a lip, of va~ 
nous tees 3 in dfferent {pecies ; tb fe included in, and 
often conneéted with, the pouch of the apes deftitute of a 
{pur; its prominent part occafionaily concave at, undi- 
vided or lobed, generally more coloured than the reft of the 
Stam. Anther an hemifpherical terminal deciduous 
n inferior, See tae 
one cell and three valves, burfting between the ribs. . Seed. 
numerous, minute, each clothed with a  chaffy tunic 
aff, reformed. Calyx-leaves forming a a pou ch with 
their bafe. ip without a La Another vertical. Pollen 
globofe. Fuiowers often reverfe 
* Flowers dired, 
Sp. 1 oe Fe _- Sw. Epidendram palmifolium ; 
Sw. Pad. 3.) ‘* Leaves lanceolate, broad, ribbed, each 
proceeding fon a bulb. “y. ower-ftalks radical, many flow. 
ered.’ Sw. Found by Dr. Swartz in Jamaica, and kno 
to us by i fae characters only. 2. Bae 
Sw. (Epidendrum Barringtoniz ; Ic. Pid. 15. 
Leaves Piliptic a as many-ribbed, feveral proceeding 
from each ly Besa 
flowered. W a ver 
been publifued but i ea — of ce eae ree in any 
work above quoted. has taken. his characters 
from thence, he not cate es with it in Jamaica, from 
which ifland its roots were fent to the late Hon. Mrs. Bar 
rington, in oh fine oS at Mongewell they fwend 
in April, 4 next year the fame fpecies bloffomed 
under Mr. Yer bairn’ s care at Chelfea. The roots are, as in 
the his <a perennial and parafitical ; confilting . long, 
thick 
entire, green. 
are green, tipped w wny hue, and elliptical. 
rather fhorter than the petals, three-lobed, with a thick 
yellow palate; the fide lobes {mall, thin, acute; the 
central one large, fringed, orange bordered with yellow. 
Style with its lid white, bent down to the palate. In 
ae every part turns bl The flowers have no {mell. 
3- D. precox, (Epidendrum — ~~ ein t th j 
b ed; 
eas terminal, fingle-flowered, Tipe of the ag 
tubular, be ee idles with five rough lines. Found by 
Dr. Francis Buchanan in Upper Nepal in the Eaft Indies, 
growing amon oles on ie trunks of bees or on rocks, 
The natives call it Caybu feva. Bulbs at firft {mall, awl-fhaped, 
invefted with {cales; afterwards ovate or heart- fhaped, an ar as 
three-ribbed, fomewhat te OWErss 
which grow folitary on a little ftalk from the top of (w 
believe} a diftin@, but oo bulb, and are very large ee 
handfome, purple; their ae@ary rolled up into a tu be, 
— fringed and ae its palate marked with five eh 
ough, sles wribs. 4. D. humile. (Epidendrum humile; 
Sm. Exot. Bot. t. 98.) Leaves..... Flower-falks ra- 
dical, fingle flowered. Lip of the n- Gary ce web lagged, 
hairy, marked with nine elevated lines, alfo on 
the mofly trunks of trees in oes epal, by Dr. Bu chanan, 
who never could find any aves. Its habit is like the lalt, 
r and probably - bulbs bear leaves at their fummits, as in 
at. e flower 
lowers cia. flefh-coloured with purple ribs, 
beautifully coloured internally with yellow and crimfo On, 
i 
" fringed alfo and hairy. The two laft are moft lovely plants, 
whofe bulbs, if they could be procured, would prove a great 
eee toour gardens. 5. D. fanguineum. Sw. (Satyrium 
rowne’s Jamaica, 324. Pn Ea ee mi- 
m8, . pan es — {peciofo ; Sloa 250. 
s oblong, ae ribbed, ee ie each 
bal. with feveral fi 
"Stalk termina, 
nt st? the 
A iene 
bearing two rigid, elliptic-oblong, b 
channvlled rib. Stalks terminal, folitary from between the 
and aati: rena to Swartz the 
the tae a = courfe within the pouc ch o 
form of a mofchatum. Sw 
dendrum a eutunn Pichane an in Symes’s Emo. to Ava, 
Thee-kua nee of the Birmans.) Stem creeping, 
Leaves two-ranked, elliptic. 
Lge run pe wn 
te 20. 
marked with e 
ther ftalks round an n. : 
clufter, large, very eins yellow with a purple es 
on each fide of the neétary. Buchanan. 
+ fare Sw. (Epidendrum Myofurus; Forft. Prod. 60.) 
“© Leaves mage Rosa lanceolate, channelled, flightly 
emarginate. wer-ftalks naked. Spike filiform, droops 
ing.” He native of the Society iflands in the South 
fea. Forfter. 8. D. utricularioides. Sw. pidendrum 
‘ 
utricularioides; Sw. Prod. 122.) 
lineated, flat,- itails panicled. Petals united by their bafes 
ort {pur, beneath — bias inverfely spel 
aped ound by artz in Jamaica and 
Hifpaniola, and his fpecific pen dee is all the information 
bchcaatas w, (Epi 
** Leaves cylindrical, 
omewhat taper Flo ek neariy fimple. Flowers 
with iw shee (edie “at the bafe in front”? Sw. 
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