E P I D E N D R U M. 
:pect defcriptions from the accurate hand of Dr. Swartz, 
the firfl difcoverer of them. 
85. Epidendrum concretum, or concrete epidendrum : 
leaves radical, lanceolate, acute; nedtary concrete with 
the petals; paratitical, a foot high. Native of Martirtico. 
8d. Epidendrum cebolleta, or bulbous epidendrum : 
leaf radical (ingle, awl-fhaped ; knot rooted ; raceme 
compound. Leaf round, acute, (lightly grooved within, 
fmooth, flefliy, at bottom a finger in thicknefs, in length 
from one to two feet, but fometimes four feet, ending at 
tire bafe in a knot or roundifh tubercle, permanent after 
the leaf is decayed. The natives call it cebolletas, (cibouls 
or little bulbs,) and make ufe of the tubercles triturated 
with fait in violent contufions, fradtures, &c. The whole 
plant is void of fmell. Native of Carthagena in woods, 
efpecially on the coaft. 
87. Epidendrum fpathulatum, or fheathedepidendrum: 
leaves bifarious, alternate, approximating ; praemorfe, 
with a doubled tip, coriaceous, fcarcely a foot long. 88. 
Epidendrum variegatum, or varied epidendrum : leaves 
alternate, fpreading, (heathing, ovate acute, three-nerved, 
waved, fmooth, variegated. Swartz has given the fame 
same to an American fpecies : fee No. 50. 89. Epiden¬ 
drum calceolarias, or (hoe epidendrum : leaves bifarious, 
alternate, remote, fpreading very much, awl-fhaped, thick, 
fmooth. 90. Epidendrum hexandrum, or fix-parted epi- 
dendrum : leaves bifarious, alternate, fpreading, a little 
feffile, ending in (heaths, fomewhat remote, lanceolate, 
emarginate with a point, rigid. 91. Epidendrum ophry- 
dis, or eye-brew epidendrum : leaves alternate, (heathing, 
from eredt fpreading, ovate, acute, quite entire, nerved, 
fmooth ; a little bulbed on the furface ; membranaceous; 
(horter than the fcape ; ending in tubular, keeled, 
fmooth (heaths. 92. Epidendrum fupplex, or proftrate 
epidendrum: leaves crowded, fword-fhaped, (lieathing, 
comprefied, quite entire, acute, fmooth, flelhy. 93. 
Epidendrum orchideum, or olive epidendrum : leaves 
bifarious, alternate, fefiile, fpreading, lanceolate, quite 
entire, acute, fmooth, flefliy, rigid. 94. Epidendrum 
pufillum, or dwarf epidendrum : (hoots in bundles ; 
apprefl'ed; a fpan long; racemes folitary, Ample, up¬ 
right, comprefied, naked at bottom, toothletted towards 
the tip, fmooth. 95. Epidendrum complanatum, or 
flat epidendrum : leaves alternate, fefiile, fpreading, 
linear-moon-fhaped, retufe, fmooth ; upper furface con¬ 
cave, lower keeled ; flefliy. 96. Epidendrum clava- 
tum, or clubbed epidendrum: leaves alternate, fef¬ 
file, fpreading, a little linear-club-(haped, with two un¬ 
equal teeth at the end, fmooth, flat, having a large nerve, 
depreffed above, permanent beneath. 97. Epidendrum 
fubulatum, or fubulate epidendrum : leaves alternate, 
eredt, fefiile, awl-fhaped, cylindric, fmooth, acute ; 
(heaths obtufe, margined, fmooth, with minute dark-pur¬ 
ple dots, (horf. Swartz gave the fame name to No. 55. 
98. Epidendrum nudum, or naked epidendrum: ftem none ; 
peduncles (imple, one-flowered, with two or three "fmooth 
membranaceous tubular (heaths, inverting the younger pe¬ 
duncles with an oblique mouth, caducous. 99. Epiden¬ 
drum tomentofum, or rugged epidendrum: leaves from 
the bulbs ufually four, feldom two or three, alternate, 
almoft eredt, bifarious at the bafe, half-fheathing the 
bulb, oblong, quite entire, acute, concave, recurved at 
the tip, fmooth, eight-nerved, flefliy. 100. Epidendrum 
bidentatum, or two-toothed epidendrum : leaves (heath¬ 
ing each other, three or four, feldom five, fword-fliaped, 
bifarious, fertile, quite entire, with two (harp toothlets at 
the tip, fmooth on both Tides, keeled at the back. 101. 
Epidendrum lycopodioides, or lycopodon epidendrum : 
rtenis crowded at the roots, pendulous, Ample, comprefT- 
ed ; leaves alternate, bifarious, (heathing one another at 
the bafe, prefied clofe above the (heaths, lanceolate, 
acute, a little margined, fmooth, flefhy. 102. Epiden¬ 
drum longiflorurn, or long-flowered epidendrum : leaves 
growing to the bulbs, folitary, fubpetioled, eredt, lan- 
ceolate-retufe, margin quite entire, recurved, fmooth, 
fkefhy, rigid, brittle. 103. Epidendrum flabellum, or 
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fan epidendrum : leaves folitary, one from each bulb," 
eredt, petioied, lanceolate oblong, quite entire, emargi¬ 
nate, a little recurved, obfeurely nerved, fmooth, flefhy, 
rigid. 104. Epidendrum faaroniipum: leaves alternate, 
fubbifarious, fefiile, fpreading, lanceolate, flattifh, above 
even, fireaked (lightly, and having five more evident 
nerves, beneath fmooth, with a (mail groove along the 
midrib, but no (freaks, emarginate, flefliy, rigid. >05. 
Epidendrum plantaginifolium, or plantain-leaved epiden¬ 
drum : leaves bifarious, (lieathing each other, eredt, li- 
near-tliree-(ided, (lightly channelled, fharpirti, fmooth, 
flefhy, narrow at the bafe next the (heaths. 106. Epi- 
dendrtim fertile, or fertile epidendrum : leaves fcattered 
from fertile bulbs, fpreading, fubpetioled, retufe, above 
fmooth, a little channelled, beneath convex, flefliy. 107. 
Epidendrum liliifolium,or lily-leaved epidendrum : leaves 
from the bulbs fubpetioled, eredt at the bafe, more 
fpreading at the tip, linear lanceolate, fharpirti, fmooth, 
keeled at the back, membranaceous, fcarcely rigid. 
108. Epidendrum calceolaria: terreflre, or earth epiden¬ 
drum : leaves fpreading, bifarious, fertile, ending in 
(heaths, oblong-lanceolate, quite entire, (lightly and ob¬ 
liquely emarginate, above even, (Timing, beneath fmooth, 
with from nine to fourteen nerves, rigid, the lower ones 
(hort, broader, the upper longer, and fcarcely an inch 
broad. 109. Epidendrum flos aeris, or doubtful epi- 
dendrum : leaves from bulbs, ovate oblong, acute, flat, 
flelhy. This having the name of flos aeris with a note of 
interrogation, is fufpedted to be the fame with No. 2. 
Tliefe twenty-three fpecies are natives of the Eaft-Ir.dies, 
w here they were di(covered by Koenig, and aredeferibed by 
him at great length, as may be feen in the fixth fafciculus 
of Retzius’s obfervations. Moft of the fpecies are new 
ones, not mentioned by any other author. A few of them, 
however, are probably deferibed and figured by Rum- 
pliius. Neither Koenig nor Retzius have given any diag- 
nofes or fpecific charadters. 
no. Epidendrum trifle, or fad epidendrum: leaves 
cylindric, empty, (heaths fi(tillofe ; peduncles oppoliteto 
the leaves, corymbed, perforating the (heath ; lip of the 
nedtary entire, fpatulate-heart-fhaped. in. Epidendrum 
crifpattivn, or crifped epidendrum : leaves cauline, round, 
filiform, fubincurved, empty, fertile ; raceme quite Ample ; 
lip of the nedtary with the middle fegmerit revolute, 
waved, crenate. 112. Epidendrum equitans, or equitant 
epidendrum: leavesequitant, enfiform-comprefled, keeled, 
acuminate ; fcape naked, raceme fpiked ; nodding, filiform. 
113. Epidendrum myofurus, or moufe-ear epidendrum : 
leaves (heathing at the bafe,obliquely divaricate, linear, ob¬ 
tufe, channelled ; fcape naked ; raceme fpiked, nodding, 
filiform. 114. Epidendrum biflorum, or two-flowered, 
epidendrum : leaves diftich, linear-lanceolate, acute ; 
peduncles two-flowered, folitary, perforating the (heaths 
of the leaves; lip of the nedtary trifid, acuminate. 115. 
Epidendrum autumnale, or autumnal epidendrum : leaves 
cauline, lanceolate, nerved, crowded, (heathing, pedun¬ 
cles terminating, fcaly, panicled, lip of the nedtary eredt, 
retufe. u6. Epidendrum fafciola, or banded epiden¬ 
drum : leaves rooting, parafitical, bundled, linear, w’av- 
ed ; fcapes feveral ; racemed ; lip of the nedtary flipper- 
(liaped, with a fpur. 117. Epidendrum umbellatum, or 
umbelled epidendrum : runners creeping ; leaves oval, 
flefliy, petioied ; petioles fixed into ovate angular-keeled 
apophyfes, fcape rooted, umbel (imple, one-fided, lowed 
petals elongated. 118. Epidendrum refupinatum, or 
inverted epidendrum : leaves cauline, petioied, ovate, 
acuminate, quite entire, plaited, keeled, five-nerved ; ra¬ 
ceme Ample, fpiked ; flowers inverted ; lower lip of the 
nedtary toothed. 119. Epidendrum clypeolum, or fnield- 
ed epidendrum : leaf radical, roundifh, cordate, cowled . 
at the bafe, reflex and (harp at the tin, fcape almofl eredt, 
racemed ; lower lip of the nedtary orbiculate, emarginate. 
very large. Thefe are all natives of the newly-difcol 
vered iilands in the South Seas. They are all fuppofed ’ 
to be new, except No. 118, which is figured in Hortus 
Malabaricus. Porlter, in his appendix to his Florida 
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