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GYNANDRIA MONANDR1A. 
afterwards pendulous. Petals linear oblong, connivent, distinct, all nearly 
equal in size and form. Lip unguiculate, distinct at the base, and about the 
length of the petals, dilated towards the extremity, trifid, ridged along the 
centre, the middle lobe round, with the margin undulate and crenulate. 
Column of an equal thickness and slightly curved, shorter than the lip; lid 
of the anthers membranaceous, caducous. Pollinia four, lenticular and 
cereaceous, laterally attached to the summit of the column, at length decidu- 
ous. Nuttall. 
Grows in rich shaded soils. 
Flowers May. Pursh. 
EPIDENDRUM. Lin. 
Columna cum label- 
li ungue in tubum coa- 
lita, (interdum decur- 
rens.) Pollinia 4, pa- 
rallel, septis persis- 
tentibus divisa, basi 
filamento granulato, 
elastico, incrassata. 
Column with the 
claw of the labellum 
united into a tube, 
sometimes decurrent. 
Pollinia 4, parallel, 
divided by persistent 
partitions, thickened at 
base by the granular 
elastic filament. 
1. Conopsecm. Aiton! 
E. foliis lanceolatis, 
rigidis, lucidis, peren- 
nantibus; caule simpli- 
ci; floribus spicatis, 
erectis; labello apice 
trilobo, lacinia inter- 
media retusa; petalis 
interioribus angustiori- 
bus. 
Leaves lanceolate, 
rigid, lucid, perennial; 
stem simple; flowers in 
spikes, erect; labellum 
3-lobed at the summit, 
the middle segment re- 
tuse; the interior petals 
narrow. 
Hort. Kew. 5. p. 219- Nutt. 2. p. 198. 
E. Magnolise, Muhl. Cat. p. 81. 
Root composed of thick fleshy fibres matted together and adhering to 
the barks of trees. Branches short, alternate. Leaves generally two on 
each branch, approximate, lanceolate, acute, very entire, succulent, ob- 
