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EPIDENDRUM. 
on the ftem enfiform, obtufe'; peduncles one-flowered, 
axillary, crowded. This is an elegant paralitical plant. 
Roots round, numerous, fibrous, afh-coloured ; ftems feve- 
r:;l, fcarcely attaining to a foot in height ; before thefe 
fpring the flowers come forth in the axils of the root-leaves; 
they are void of fcent, and fcarlet. Native of Martinico, 
in moift woods, efpecially by the fide of torrents ; alfo 
in Jamaica, but not common. Cultivated at Kew in 1794. 
7. Epidendrum fecundum, or inferior epidendrum : 
leaves on the Idem oblong, emarginate ; Hem comprefled ; 
fpike directed one way ; tube of the neCtary length of 
the corolla. Paralitical. Roots fibrous, white; Item 
round at bottom, gradually comprefled, leafy, pendulous ; 
leaves feflile, fheathing, alternate, fpreading in two rows, 
the outmoll tip emarginate, veinlefs; peduncle fcape- 
form, olten two feet long, terminating, comprefled, jointed 
as it were by the deciduous fheaths ; flowers terminating, 
in form of a corymb, nodding one way, pale red or brown. 
It varies with a rounder and more comprefled Item ; 
leaves broader, or more acuminate ; flowers terminating, 
or breaking out on the fide; and tube of the neCtary 
fhorter or longer than the petals. Native of Martinico 
and Jamaica, in mountainous woods. Cultivated at Kew 
in 1 794. 
Swartz is of opinion that E. anceps of Jacquin is no 
more than a variety of this. Jacquin thus deferibes it: 
Purafitical, half a foot high or fomewhat more; roots fi¬ 
brous, round ; (lent comprefled, ancipital at top, with 
few leaves; leaves oblong, blunt, coriaceous, alternate, 
fheathing. Native of Martinico. 
8. Epidendrum lineare, or linear epidendrum : leaves 
on the item diltich, linear, obtufe, emarginate ; (tern Am¬ 
ple ; flowers terminating in a fort of fpike; lip entire. 
Stems Ample, heaped, tufted, from one to two feet long, 
ere< 5 t, filiform, leafy, comprefled a little, fmooth ; feeds 
extremely minute, dufty and briflly ; as Jacquin fays, ir¬ 
regularly fhaped like faw-duft. Native of thick moun¬ 
tain woods in Martinico, and other of the Weft India 
iflands ; flowering in fpring. Cultivated at Kew in 1794. 
9. Epidendrum pun&atum, or dotted epidendrum: 
leaves lanceolate, nerved; flieaths imbricate; fcape pa- 
nicled; and corollas dotted. 10. Epidendrum cauda- 
tum, or tailed epidendrum: leaves lanceolate, nerved; 
fcape panicled ; petals fpotted, tailed, two very long. 
Natives of America. 
11. Epidendrum ovatum, or ovate epidendrum : leaves 
on the ftern ovate, acute ; item clafping, nerved ; fcapes 
panicled. Native of the Eaft Indies. 
12. Epidendrum ciliare, or ciliated epidendrum: 
leaves oblong, veinlefs; lip of the nectary three-parted, 
ciliate, the middle fegment linear; Item two-leaved. This 
is an elegant plant, a foot and half high, paralitical on 
the trunks of vaft trees, from which it hangs down to¬ 
wards the ground ; fpike loofe, compofed of about ten 
handfome white flowers, four inches in diameter, all 
pointing one way. Native of Martinico. Cultivated at 
Kew in 1794. 
13. Epidendrum noCturnum, or no&urnal epidendrum : 
leaves oblong, veinlefs; lip of the neCIary three-parted, 
quite entire; the middle fegment linear; Item many¬ 
leaved. Native of the mountain woods in Martinico, 
and in Jamaica, but not common. It fmells very fweet 
during the night. 
14. Epidendrum cucullatum, or hooded epidendrum : 
leaves fubulate; fcape one-flowered ; lip of the neCtary 
ovate, ciliate, acuminate; petals elongated. Native of 
America. Cultivated at Kew in 1794. 
15. Epidendrum teres, or taper epidendrum : ftem 
Iheathed, decumbent; leaves columnar. Native of Japan. 
III. Scape naked; leaves radical. 16. Epidendrum 
nodofum, or knotty epidendrum : leaf Angle, fubradical ; 
fpadix containing about four flowers. Native of the 
Weft Indies, near the coaft ; flowering in fpring. 
1 7. Epidendrum carinatum, or carinated epidendrum: 
a 
leaves oblong, obtufe, comprefled, jointed. Native of 
the Philippine iflands, on trees. 
18. Epidendrum aloifolium, or aloe-leaved vanilla: 
leaves oblong, obtufe, broader at the end. Root thick, 
fungous, crinite, knobbed, paralitical ; leaves feveral 
from the knob of the root, from two to three feet long, 
and two fingers broad, fmooth, (hining, brownilh green, 
thick; flowering-ftems feveral, undivided, round, green, 
Ihining; three of the petals are narrow, oblong, of a fine 
red colour within, with white edges, on the outfide white 
and green, in ftreaks, with a tinge of red ; neCtary yellow, 
with red lines. Native of Malabar, on different trees. . 
19. Epidendrum guttatum, or dotted epidendrum : 
leaves lanceolate, channelled; petals wedge-lhaped, re- 
tufe. From a matted root this fends out feveral leaves 
three inches long, and not a quarter of an inch broad, 
almoft triangular, and of a yellowish green colour. From 
the midft of thefe comes the flowering-ftalk. Each 
flower is made up of four little white petals, fpotted with 
brown, and one large one with fewer fpots, on. which is a 
fmall yellow hood, and oppolite to it one like it of a 
blue colour; on pedicels an inch long, round the top of 
the (talk. Native of Jamaica, on the ebonies. 
20. Epidendrum juncifolium, or ruflt-leaved epiden¬ 
drum : leaves fubulate, furrowed ; fcape and petals dot¬ 
ted ; lip without dots, dilated. Native of America. 
21. Epidendrum feriptum, or marked vanilla : leaves 
ovate-oblong, three-nerved; flowers racemed, fpotted. 
Native of the Eaft Indies. 
22. Epidendrum retufum, or retufe epidendrum : 
leaves linear, retufe at the end, in two rows ; flowers ra¬ 
cemed, fpotted. Three feet in height; root white, 
woody, bent in, curled, fixing itfelf into the bark of tree* 
by its capillary hairy fibres; ftem lifing between two 
rows of leaves, Ample, Ihining, fmooth, marked with 
rings; the leaves which come out from the top of the 
ftem, and when dry, conftitute the ftem itfelf, are oblong- 
narrow, equally thick and broad on every fide, folded to¬ 
gether, fmooth, Ihining, without any vilible veins or 
nerves. Native of Malabar, where it flowers in April 
and Ottober, the flowers continuing two months; and a 
branch fet in water will flower for a month. 
23. Epidendrum amabile, or lovely epidendrum : 
leaves broad-lanceolate, veinlefs; petals lateral, orbicu- 
late. Roots thick, like packthread ; ftem two.feet high, 
naked, furrounded by a few acute, very fliort, feales ; 
flowers fnow-white, the fize of narciffus flowers. Ob- 
ferved in the Eaft Indies by Olbeck ; on branches of 
trees, on the coaft of Java, alfo, by Rumphius. The 
flowers are large and odoriferous ; lying in a room, they 
do not wither for feveral days, and fill it with a molt 
agreeable fmell. On the ille of Ternate, none but prin- 
cefles are allowed to wear this precious flower. 
24. Epidendrum cochleatum, or fpiral epidendrum : 
leaves oblong, double, fmooth, (freaked, growing on the 
bulb; fcape many-flowered; nectary cordate. Native 
of the mountainous parts of Jamaica. This is one of 
the few fpecies yet introduced ; we are obliged to Mr. 
Alexander Anderfon for it in' 1786. It flowers here in 
January and February. 
25. Epidendrum tuberofum, or tuberous epidendrum : 
leaves broad-lanceolate, nerved, membranaceous, growing 
on the bulb ; fcape Iheathed ; nectary boat-form, bifid. 
This a native of America. Linnaeus jets it down as the 
growth of both Indies, fuppofing it to be the Angraecum 
terreftre primum of Rumphius, which Swartz allures us 
it is not, becaufe it is drawn without leaf-bearing bulbs, 
and is faid to grow on the ground. It is probably a fpe¬ 
cies of Limodorum. Loureiro has deferibed a plant 
cultivated in the gardens of China and Cochinchina, as 
the E. tuberofum of Linnteus; but as he refers to 
Rumphius, and fays that it is not parafitical on trees, but 
grows on the ground ; it may alfo be a Limodorum, or at 
lead is a different fpecies from this. 
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