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EPIDENDRUM ciliare. 
Fringed Epidendrum. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Jussicu gen. 61. Brown prod. 1. 300. Div. IV. 
Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Masse pollinis demum cereacez. 
Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 205. , 
EPIDENDRUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 67. 
E. ciliare, foliis constanter binis, spica remota pauciflord, labelli lamina tri- 
Joba lobis duobus exterioribus timbriato-incisis, medio subtili aristiformi 
setaceo integerrimo: limbi laciniis duabus interioribus lineari-lanceolatis. 
Epidendrum ciliare. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2, 2.1849. Jacq. amer. 224. 179. 
Jig. 89. Swartz nov. act. ups. 6. 69. Willd. sp. pl. 4.119. Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2. 5. 219; (exclusé citatione bot. magaz. 463. rectids ad E. cuspida- 
tum pertinente). Redouté liliac. 82. 
Helleborine graminea, foliis rigidis carinatis. Plum. sp. 9. ic. 179. fig. 2. 
Native of the West Indies. Introduced in 1790 by 
Mr. Edward Elcock. Drawn at the Chelsea Nursery, where 
it is cultivated by Mr. Sweet, the superintendant in the hot- 
house. 
Stems several, cylindrical, knobby, a little thicker up- 
wards than downwards, owing to the remains of the by-gone 
foliage; smooth like the rest of the plant. Leaves cauline, 
alternate, sheathing at the base, spreading oblong, obtuse, 
firm, deep green. Flowers from two to five, large, white, 
in a thin loose spike: axis or rachis cylindrical, green, 
smooth, branching: bractes oblong, half embracing, be- 
coming sphacelate, placed at the base of the spike and the 
branches. Corolla sixparted: 3 outer segments exactly 
alike, oblong, narrow, pointed, slightly revolute: 2 inner 
ones resembling the three outer, but whiter, a little sharper 
pointed, slightly waved and slanted: Labellum adhering 
by its base to the column, spurless; wnguis involute, semi- 
cylindrically channelled ; limb spreading, deeply three-part- 
ed, middle division long, linear, fine, simple, pointed, two 
lateral divisions a little shorter, much wider, entire at the 
inner edge, deeply fringed on the outer by the fine linear 
pointed slips into which it is cut. Germen running into the 
