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EPIDENDRUM? woyopayitum. 
One-leafed Epidendrum. 
a) 
GYNAN DRIA MONANDRIA. —Nar. Om. ORCHIDER. 
Div. Anthera terminalis, mobilis, secidua. "Masse pollinis demum cereaced. 
Gen. Cuar.—Colwnna cum ungue labelli longitudinaliter connata in tubum : 
-(quandoque decurrentem ovarium). Masse -pollinis 4, parallelx, septis 
completis persistentibus distincte, basi filo granulato elastico aucte.—Br. 
Epidendrum? monophyllum; caule unifolio, folio elliptico-lanceolato ob- 
tuso, racemo paucifloro e sinu foli, petalis conniventibus una cum 
labello lanceolatis, duobus interioribus minutis, columna. superne 
alata dentata. ) 
Root parasitic, consisting of a few short, situile, 1 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 jflowerstalk, 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 operculiform, 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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