Empalement. Sheaths scattered. Fruit-stalk simple. Cup none.
Blossom. Five petals, oblong, of a great length, and spreading much.
Honey-cup tubular at the base, turban-shaped, placed between the lower petals, mouth oblique and divided: the upper lip very short, cut into three divisions; the lower terminating in a point.
Chives. Two very short threads, fixed on the pointal. Tips covered by the upper lip of the honey-cup.
Pointal. Seed-bud slender, long, twisted, and beneath. Shaft very short, fixed to the upper lip of the honey-cup. Summit blunt.
Seed-vessel. Pod very long, round, and fleshy.
Seeds numerous, extremely small.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Epidendrum foliis oblongis, geminis, glabris, bulbo innatis; scapo multifloro; nectario cordato, purpureo.
Epidendrum with oblong leaves growing by pairs, smooth, rising from the bulb; stalk many flowered; honey-cup heart-shaped and purple.