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EPIDENDRUM? monophyllum. 
One-leafed Epidendrum, 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.— Nat. Okd. ORCHIdEJE. 
Div. Anthera terminalis, mobilis, decidua. Massoe pollinis demum cereacea. 
Gen. Char.-— Columna cum ungue labelli longitudinaliter connata in tubum 
(quandoque decurrentem ovarium). Massce pollinis 4, parallelae, septis 
completis persistentibus distinctae, basi filo granulato elastico auctae. — Br. 
Epidendrum? mcmophyllum; caule unifoiio, folio elliptico-lanceolato ob- 
tuse, racemo paucifloro e sinu folii, petalis conniventibus una cum 
labello lanceolatis, duobus interioribus minutis, columna superne 
alata dentata. 
Root parasitic, consisting of a few short, simple, flexuose fibres. Stems two 
or three together, scarcely ever exceeding an inch in length, erect, slen- 
der, surmounted by a single elliptical, lanceolate, fleshy, pale green, ob- 
tuse leaf, which has a midrib, but is destitute of nerves. 
From the base of the leaf proceeds the fowerstalk, bearing two small blos- 
soms, each of which is surrounded at the base with a sheathing bractea. 
Pedicel short, rather swollen upwards, and there jointed, as it were, at 
the setting on of the germen. Corolla with the petals closed, or only 
very slightly separated ; the three outer ones lanceolate, pale green, with 
a prominent central line, the two lowermost of these somewhat gibbous 
at the base, and there united. The two innermost and lateral petals are 
also lanceolate, but minute, whitish, with a red central line. Lip small, 
about equal in length to the inner petals, lanceolate, standing out paral- 
lel with the petals, and concealed by''them ; nearly plane, slightly serrat- 
ed at the margin, near the base above having two indistinct tubercles ; 
its colour deep purple. Column shorter than the inner petals, straight, 
semicylindrical at the base, above, at the base of the anther, expanding 
into a sort of hood, formed by the concave, broadly winged and toothed 
margin: the base running down towards the base of the lip, deep purple. 
Anther operculiforra, placed in a hollow or recess in the broad upper part 
of the column, and immediately above a membranous process which co- 
vers the stigma, 2-celled ; each cell having a pollen-mass composed of two 
pieces, yellow, waxy, united at their bases by a white glutinous gland. 
Germen very short, purple, tuberculated, not twisted ? 
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