Plate DCXLV. Epidendrum Fragrans. Sweet-scented Epidendrum

CLASS XX. ORDER I.

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. Chives on the Pointal. Two Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Nectarium turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum.

Honey-cup top-shaped, oblique, and reflexed. See Pl. XIII. Vol. I. Epidendrum cochleatum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Epidendrum folio lanceolate bulbo innato, scapo abbreviato multifloro, lamina labelli cordata acuta.

Wildenow’s Sp. Pl.

Epidendrum with a lance-shaped leaf upon the bulb, with a short stalk, many-flowered.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. The empalement, chives, and pointal.
2. The honey-cup.

This species of Epidendrum is an old inhabitant of the hot-house, and much esteemed for the fragrance of its flowers, and the only one at present known to us (the angustifolium excepted) with a single leaf. It is enumerated in the Species Plantarum of Willdenow, as described by Swartz; but we do not find that any figure of it has before been published.