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EPIDENDRUM cuspidatum. 
Yellow fringed-flowered Epidendrum. | 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Jussieu gen. 61. Brown prod. 1. 300. Div. IV. — 
Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demim cereacez. 
Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 205. 
EPIDENDRUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 67. 
E. cuspidatum, foliis sepé trinis, spica remota pauciflora; limbi laciniis 
duabus interioribus latioribus subrhombeo-lanceolatis cuspidatis; labelli 
lamina triloba, lobis lateralibus fimbriato-incisis, medio fineart integer- 
rimo. 
Epidendrum cuspidatum. Loddiges’s bot. cab. 10. ' 
Epidendrum ciliare. Curtis’s magaz. 463; (nec Linnei.) Aa aT 
Scapus erectiusculus, simplex tereti-compressus, virens, cicatricibus remotis 
annulatusinferne versus attenuatus, vaginis compressis alternis sphacelatis dense 
paralleleque nervosis ad floresusque vestitus. Vagine ex imis longioribus(biun- 
cialibus) superne versus descrescentes, lineari-lanceolate, rectissime, bifa- 
riam alterne.  Folium (2-3?) coriaceum, firmum, erectiusculum, scapo sub- 
equale, supra virens lucidum, subtus opacum pallidum, 4-unciale latitudine 
% vel $ partes uncie, costé media prominente, apice obtuso mucronulato. 
Spica remote pauci-(3-) flora, axt geniculato-flexuosd : bractex geminata, 
arido-membranacee tenues, germine breviores, lanceolato-lineares, cuspidate. 
Germen viride biunciale vel magis, obsolete trigonum, crassitudine penne mi-- 
noris, esulcum, glabrum, erectiusculum, corolle lacinias exsuperans. Co- 
rolle lacinie exteriores ligulato-lanceolate elongate cuspidate striate, inte- 
rioribus duabus tenuioribus duplo ferme angustiores. Columna alba erecta 
clavato-cylindracea, diametra feré penne columbine, subtrigono-teres, apice 
antice protuberans cum cavo infundibuliformi labellifero, postice antherifera 
membranula alba laciniata marginata. Labellum columnam anticé cunicu- 
lato-decurrens, limbi laciniis equale: unguis brevis, latus truncato-lobatus, 
superne patens utringue inferne canaliculato-connivens: lamina tripar- 
tita, lobis lateralibus deflexis, semiovato-rotundis, ord externd laciniato-fim- 
briata lacinulis angustisstmis profundissimis ; medio istis equali integerrimo 
subulato-lineari, apice non dilatato, lateribus deflexis, filo longo prefixo. An- 
thera convexa. asse pollinis jlave complanate inequilatert-conoidee, 
filis binis supra furcatis longioribus per paria connexa. Stigma anticum, 
intra frontem capitelli columne reconditum. 
Received by Messrs. Loddiges, of the Hackney Nursery, 
in 1808, from the island of Dominica. : 
Drawn at the Chelsea Nursery, where it is cultivated by 
Mr. Colvill in the hothouse. j 
In Curtis’s Botanical Magazine the plant has been, 
