EPIDENDRUM REPLICATUM. 
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EPIDEj^DEUM EEPLICATITM. 
T HIS very pretty 
species of Epi- 
dendrum was exhi¬ 
bited at one of the 
Chiswick Fetes last 
year, by S. Encker, 
Esq., of Wands¬ 
worth, to whom we 
are indebted for the 
opportunity of figur¬ 
ing it. The pseudo¬ 
bulbs are crowned 
by the ensiform or 
narrowly - elongate 
lance-shaped leaves, 
from between which 
proceeds the flower 
scape, four feet long, the 
upper half forming a large 
branched panicle. The 
flowers, though not gaudy, 
are very pretty, and being 
numerous, they render 
this species ornamental. 
The sepals are cuneate- 
spathulate, with a mucro 
dull yellowish brown; the 
petals are spathulate, narrowed be¬ 
low, mucronate above, of the same 
ground-colour as the sepals, and 
marked with a large chocolate- 
coloured blotch at the broad apex. 
The lip is white, veined with 
purple, three-lobed, the two la¬ 
teral lobes large, oblong-ovate, 
appressed to the column at the 
base, spreading above ; the middle 
lobe is cordate-acuminate, folded 
together backwards, and having a 
waved margin. 
It is a stove epiphyte, and requires the 
same kind of treatment as other tropical 
orchidaceous plants. 
Our figure represents one of the 
branches of the flowering panicle in 
its naturally pendent position, and of 
01 the natural size. 
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