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unguiculato, profunde trilobate , margine integerrimo, lobis 

 lateralibus triangulari-oblongis, obtusis, erectis, superne recur- 

 vis, lobo terminali satis majore, ovato- lanceolate, apice 

 acutissimo, basi satis constricto, supra longitudinaliter undulato- 

 striato, callo disci crasso oblongo elongate basi et superne 

 excavato apice in acumen longissime producto; columna 

 breviuscula, subclaviformi, lateraliter compressa, apice auri- 

 culis minutis obtusisque producta ; anthera cristata, superne 

 profundiuscule emarginata. 



Tabula nostra X. Fig. I (habitus cum analysi). 



Epidendrum Yauaperyense Barb. Rodr. in Vellosia, I, 

 edit, secund. 122 (1891). 



Pseudobulbi erecti , non vel obscure sulcati, basi subrotundati, 

 apice attenuati, 12— 15 cm. longi, inferne 5— 6 cm. crassi. Folia erecta, 

 leviter arcuata, basi breviter subconduplieata, superne plana vel le viler 

 concava, uninervia etsubtiliter multiuervulosa, 4—9 dm, louga, 2 1 /* — 5 cm. 

 lata. Pedunculus communis gracilis, erectus, paulo arcuatus, teretius- 

 culus, superne paulo ramosns, 3—9 dm. longus, ramis longiusculis, erecto- 

 patulis; pedicelli patuli, graciles, leviter arcuati, l /s — 1 cm. longi. Ovarium 

 lineari-clavatum, obscure trigonum, paulo arcuatum, circiter 1 cm longum. 

 Sepala patula, plana vel leviter convexa, basi satis attenuata, viridia, 

 circiter 2 cm. louga, 5—6 mm. lata. Petala patula, subplaua, leviter 

 obliqua, interne valde attenuata, viridia, 18 — 19 mm. longa, 6 — 7 mm. 

 lata. Labellum inferne erectum, superne patulum, apice recurvum, 

 l 1 /* cm. longum, lobis lateralibus luteis et purpureo lineatis, lobo ter- 

 minali albo margine flavo. Columna erecta superne leviter incurva, lutea 

 et purpureo lineata, 6—7 mm. longa. — Species mini baud visa; descript. 

 ex op. supra cit. et ex icon, a el. Barb. Kodr. communic. 



Habitat in sylvis virgineis supra arbores ad flum. Yauapery prov. 

 Alto Amazonas: Barbosa Rodrigues. — Floret Martio. 



5. EPIDENDRUM ONCIDIOIDES Lindl. pseudobulbis 

 elongatis, oblongo-fusiformibus, paulo compressis, apice diphyllis 

 vel interdum triphyllis, junioribus squamis pluribus scariosis 

 vaginantibus vestitis vetustioribus nudis ; foliis coriaceis rigi- 

 disque, lineari-ligulatis, plus minusve plicatis, apice obtusius- 

 culis interdum leviter emarginatis ; pedunculo communi foliis 

 multo longiore, interne vaginis pluribus minutis obtusis valde 

 distantibus vestito, superne paniculate, laxe multifloro; bracteis 

 brevissimis, crasse coriaceis, margine submembranaceis, late 

 triangularibus, acutis vel obtusiusculis ; floribus mediocribus, 

 longiuscule pedicellatis; ovario glaberrimo ; laevi; sepalis 

 crassiusculis , aequalibus, late lanceolate -oblongis, acutis; 

 petalis anguste obovato-cuneatis , abrupte acutis, sepalo dor- 

 sali paulo brevioribus; labello carnosulo, sepalis lateralibus 

 paulo breviore, fere usque ad basin libero, brevissime lateque 

 unguiculato, profunde trilobate, margine integerrimo, lobis 

 lateralibus ligulato-oblongis, apice rotundatis, inferne colum- 

 nam amplectentibus, apice oblique patentibus, lobo terminali 

 majore, suborbiculari, apice apiculato, margine interdum leviter 

 crispulo, venis incrassatis ramosis prominentibus percurso, 

 disco lineis duabus crassis elevatis medio foveolam effor- 

 mantibus instructo; columna breviuscula, claviformi, apice 

 dilatata et bialata, alis latis, rotundatis, incurvis; anthera 

 apice leviter emarginata. 



Tabula nostra XI (habitus). 



Epidendrum oncidioides Lindl! in Bot. Reg. tab. 1623 

 (1833), Folia Orch., Epid. p. 11 ; Drapiez, Enryclo(jr. 1 (Bot. 



Man 



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130; Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Amer. Bot. 111. 235; Rodigas in 

 111. Hort. XXXI V. 79. tab. 28; Veitch Man. Orch. PI 

 part VI. 108; Stein, Orchideenb. 234; L. Lind. Orch. Exot. 

 762; Journ. des Orch. VII 221. 



Epidendrum Guatemalense Klotzsch! in Otto et Dietr. 

 Allg. Gartenz. 1852 p. 250; Lindl. in Faxt. Flow. Gard. III. 

 Glean, n. 595, Folia Orch., Epid. p. 22; Walp. Ann. Bot. 



VI. 329. 



Epidendrum spectabile Focke! in Bot. Zeit. XL 229 



(1853); Walp. Ann. Bot. VI. 328 (non Reichb. J.). 



Rhizoma repens, aunulatum, pseudobulbigerum, radicibus crassius- 

 culis, albidis. Pseudobulbi erecti vel ascendentes, recti vel leviter arcuati, 

 laeves vel superne plus minusve sulcati, intense virides, fere usque 2 dm. 

 longi et 4— 5 cm. crassi. Folia erecta vel erecto-patula, basi couduplicata, 

 uninervia et tenuiter multinervulosa, supra nitida et intense viridia, subtus 

 paulo pallidiora, 3— 6 dm. longa, 2 — 4 1 /* cm. lata, nervo mediauo supra 

 profundiuscule impresso, subtus valde prominente distiucte carinato, 

 Pedunculus communis robustns, erectus, rectus vel paulo flexuosus, teretius- 

 culus, viridis dilute roseus vel interdum purpureus, 4—18 dm. altus, 

 superne satis ramosus, ramis erecto-patulis, saepius elongatis, plus minusve 

 ramulosis; pedicelli satis graciles, patuli, pallide virides, leviter tlexuosi, 



glabri, laeves, 1—1 l /i cm. longi. Bracteae patulae, semiamplexicaules, 

 fulvae vel fuscescentes , 1 — 2 mm. longae. Flores patentes, suaveolentes. 

 Ovarium lineari-clavatum, obtuse trigonum, saepius leviter arcuatum, 

 pallide viride, circiter 1cm. longum. Sepala patentissima, subplana vel 

 leviter concava, tenuiter reticulato-7-nervia, inferne satis attenuata, flaves- 

 centia et fnsco-marmorata , 15 — 17 mm. longa, 4 — 4 1 /* mm. lata, lateralia 

 leviter obliqua. Petala patula, carnosula, plana vel paulo concava, reti- 

 culato-7-nervia, inferne valde attenuata, flavescentia et fusco-maculata vel 

 punctata, 14— 16 mm. longa, superne 5 — 6 mm. lata. Labellum erectum, 

 tenuiter multinervulosum, album vel flavescens et interdum rubro-sti iatum, 

 13 — 14 mm. longum, lobo terminali conduplicato. Columna erecta, recta 

 vel vix incurva, subtrigona, antice canaliculata, pallide viridis alis albis, 

 8—9 mm. louga. Capsula „ovali-oblonga, in pedunculnm attenuata, breviter 



rostrata, trisulcata, inter sulcos tricostata, papillis miuutis albidis muricata, 



atroviridis." 



Var. p. graniticum Lindl. ! Folia Orch. , Epid. p. 11 

 (1853); Duchartre, Man. Gen. des PI. IV. 425; Walp. Ann. 

 Bot. VI. 328. 



Epidendrum graniticum Lindl ! in Hook. Journ. oj Bot. 1IL 

 83 (1841), Lond. Journ. of Bot. II. 671. 



Epidendrum ajjine Focke! in Bot. Zeit. XI 341 (1853); 



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Otto et Dietr. Allg. Gartenz. 1853. p. 229; Walp. Ann. Bot. VI 

 328 (non A. Rich, nee Reichb. f.) 



Folia circiter 3 dm. longa. Pedunculus saepius brevior et gracilior. 

 Flores paulo minores. Sepala petalaqne viridia interdum rubro mar- 

 morata. Labellum album basi dilute roseura. 



Habitat in prov. S. Paulo ad Serra do Mar : Comm. Oeogr. e Geol. 

 prov. S. Paulo n. 2559; in prov. Rio de Janeiro ad Tijura : Hieronymus 

 et Niederlein; in Brasilia locis haud indicatis : Glazioun. 15660, Barbosa 

 Rodrigues. Etiam in Guiana gallica prope Cayenne: Patris; in Surinam 

 in savannahs: Focke n. 237 et 823; in arenosis prope Joden- Savanna : 

 Kegel n. 1088; in arboribus et terresiribus arenosis district. Para: Wull- 

 schlaegel n. 530; ad Paramaribo: Wullschlaegel n. 1117; in Venezuela 

 prope Caracas: Gollmer; in Novae- Granatae prov. Cauca et ad Medellin 

 alt. 500—1500 m. : Lehmann n. 3868; in Guatemala : Allardt; in Mexico: 

 Ghiesbreght n. 101. — Var. j3. In Surinam: Focke n. 457; ad radices 

 arborum in distr. Para: Hostmann et Kappler n. 792; in Surinam 



