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roundish ;" capsule ovoid-globose, muricate-pilose : its pedicel little exceeded by the leaf. — 

 Cymbidium, Sw. D. squarrosa, Lindl. in PL Wright. — Radicaut, pendulous ; leaves 4'"- 

 6'" long, §'" broad; flowers H'" long.— Hab. Jamaica (Sw.) ; [Cuba!]. 



119. D. graminea, Gr. Leaves linear-lanceolate, pointed, spreading; lip sagittate- 

 roundish ; capsule ovoid, glabrous, smooth : its pedicel about half as long as the leaf. — Sw. 

 Adnot. t. \.f ] . — D. graminoides, Lindl. ! (Cymbidium, Sw., Isochilus, Hook. f). — Diffuse, 

 ascending, low, 4"-6"high ; leaves 6"'-12'" long, 2"' broad ; flowers 2"'-3'" long, " whitish." 

 — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., on trees, Moorce's Gap ; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad !, Cr., 

 Brad/., common on mossy branches, in cool, damp woods ; [Guiana !]. 



120. D. glauca, Lindl.'. Leaves linear-oblong, mucronate-blunt, glaucous beneath ; 

 hp sagittate-reniform, broadly clawed, exceeded by the perigone ; capsule elliptical-oblong, 

 glabrous, smooth, 3-gonal, much exceeded bv the leaves. — Stouter than all the preceding 

 species, l'-2' high, erect, simple ; leaves H"-2" long, 4"'-6"' broad ; flowers 6"' long, 

 whitish. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macf., on trees, in the upper region of the Blue Mountains ; 

 [Cuba ! ; Mexico !]. 



27. AERANTHES, Lindl. 



Lip jointed with the base of the column, spurred : perigonial divisions distinct. Column 

 short : pollinaria 2 : caudiculre as many, distinct. — Leafy or aphyllous epiphytes : no tubers ; 

 inflorescence axillary or on radical scapes. 



121. A. micrantha, G. Rchb. ! Stem leafy, pendulous-radicant ; leaves distichous, 

 oblong, blunt, obliquely emarginate, exceeding the axillary, sessile, many-flowered spikes : 

 flowers one-sided, white ; perigonial divisions oblong-lanceolate, bluntish, spreading at the 

 summit ; lip conform, except at the cucullate, subulate base, channelled, little longer than 

 the curved, thickish, bluntly clavate spur. — Bot. Reg. t. 1772.— Angrcecum, Lindl. — G. 

 Kchb. (in lit.) distinguishes the Jamaica form (A. jamaicensis, ej.) by the leaves, thicker 

 and devoid of transverse veinlets, and other characters, which from our materials do not 

 prove constant. Stem a few inches to several feet long ; leaves at length leathery, 1 £"-3" 

 long, sheathing, about 8'" distant from each other ; spikes single or fascicled, I long, re- 

 curved ; perigone 2'" long.— Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., M'Nab, on trees ; Trinidad !, Bradf, 

 very common, in dry, open places; [Venezuela!, Guiana ! ; Sierra Leone (Lindl.)~\. 



122. A. filiformis, Gr. Stemless, aphyllous ; peduncles radical, fascicled, short; spike 

 loose, many (-lew) -flowered: flowers small, "yellow;" perigonial divisions ovate-lanceolate, 

 pointed ; lip conform, as long as or little longer than the broadly clavate, thickish, at 

 length reflexed-ascending spur. — Sw. Adnot. t. 1 . f. 2. — Limodorum, Sw. Angracum, 

 Lindl. — Stem reduced to a scaly knob at the origin of the shortly peduncltd spikes, the latter 

 I5 -2 long, their axis slender, somewhat puberulous . aerial roots fascicled, much longer 

 '™ the bundle of spikes ; flowers distichous, about 1'" distant from each other : perigone 

 1 long or less. — Hab. Jamaica !, M'Nab, Pd., Wils., on calabash- and logwood-trees ; 

 Trinidad !, Bradf, on calabash-trees, rare ; [Haiti ; New Granada !]. 



123. A. funalis, G. Rchb.! Aphyllous: aerial roots stout, fascicled ; scapes distantly 

 sheathed, few-flowered : flowers large, pedicellate, greenish-white; perigonial divisions ob- 

 long-lanceolate, spreading ; lip diform., roundish above the contracted base, 2-lobed, with 

 rounded, spreading lobes, about half as long as the subulate-filiform, straight-descending 

 spur. — Bot. Mag. t. 4295. — Limodorum, Sw. Angrsecura, Lindl. CEceoclades, Lindl. 

 --Roots often several feet, scape l"-4", perigone 6'" long; lip 8'" broad, white— Hab. 

 Jamaica !, Pd., Wils., M'Nab, on trees. 



28. ORNITHIDIUM, Salisb. 



Lip ascending, cucullate, continuous (rarely jointed) with the base of the column : perigo- 

 nial divisions erect-spreading. Column naked, antrorsely gibbons : pollinaria 4, caudiculae 

 oblong or linear, gland minute. — Stem ascending or radicant, branched, sheathed by imbri- 

 cate-distichous scales, distantly leaved: aerial tubers l-phyllous ; flowers axillary. 



* Flowers glomerate. 

 124. O. vestitum, G. Rchb. ! Tubers oblong, truncate, compressed ; leaves oblong- 



