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EPIDENDRUM wnuvrans. 
| Droopin g-flowered Epidendrum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nar. Orv. ORCHIDEL. 
Div. Anth. ierminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demum cereacea. 
Gen. Cuar.—Columna cum ungue labelli’ longitudinaliter connata in tubum 
(quandoque decurrentem ovarium). Masse pollinis 4, parallele, septis 
completis persistentibus distincte, basi filo granulato elastico aucte.— 
Bri , 
Epidendrum nutans; caule simplici, foliis ovato-lanceolatis amplexi- 
caulibus; floribus subspicatis nutantibus, lamina labelli triloba, hp 7 
intermedio tridentato.—= Sw. 
Epidendrum nutans, Swartz, Fil. Ind. Occ. p. 1499.—WILLD. Sp. Fi. p.Alt. 
—Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 209.— Bot. Reg. t. 17. : 
Root, according to SwarvTz, of several thick, filiform, long, white fibres. — 
Stem from 1.to 2 feet high, about the thickness of one’s little finger, erect, 
or horizontal when growing from the trunks of trees, simple, nearly 
cylindrical, yellowish-green, almost formed by the sheathing bases of the 
leaves, Leaves oblongo-lanceolate, thick, fleshy, dark green, distichous, 
scarcely striated, rather acute, sheathing and amplexicaul at the base. 
Spike of flowers large, handsome, terminal, from 6 to 8 inches long, some- 
times branched, the branches divaricated, flexuose. There are 3 or 4 
large marcescent. bractew towards the base of the common flower-stalk, 
and smaller ones at the base of each flower, which, however, soon fall 
away. The color of the flowers is one, almost entirely uniform, pale 
yellow-green, the column and the labellum only being of a more yellow 
or lemon colour. 
Segments of the Perianth spreading, soon siiiokod: the 3 outer ones oblongo- 
spathulate, uniform; the 2 zner or lateral gnes almost linear, obtuse. 
Labellum firmly united with the under side of the column, the lamina 
only. being free ; this is rather large, horizontally deflexed, 3-lobed, the 
two lateral lobes the largest, rounded, the intermediate three, toothed; the : 
two lateral teeth large and spreading, the intermediate very minute. At 
the base of the lamina of the labellum are two white fleshy calli, and pro- 
ceeding from them 3 elevated lines, running down the centre. Column 
shorter than the segments of the perianth, standing out nearly horizon- 
tally, clavate, 2-lobed at the extremity, with a sinus at the top for the 
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