626 ORCHIDE.E. 



linear, acuminate, with a hluntish point ; flowers glomerate, " white ;" perigonial divisions 

 erect-spreading, ovate, blunt ; lip ovate, blunt, obsoletely S-lobed : blade abruptly clawed, 

 longer than the continuous claw : basilar callus transverse, not produced to the margin. 

 Cymbidium, Sw. {sec. G. Rchb., who compared Swartz's original). Camaridium imbricatum, 

 Lindl. in Herb. Hook. O. parvitlorum, G. Rchb. I— Stout, woody ; scales appressed-sheath- 

 iiig, ovate, pointed, 4"'-6"' long, gradually enlarged towards the tubers, the latter 1"-H 

 long ; leaves 6"-8" long, 10"'-12'" broad ; flowers in dense clusters near the summit of the 

 branches ; perigone 2" -3'" long, not exceediug the lanceolate-acuminate bract. — Hab. Ja- 

 maica !, Pd., Wullschl., on rocks above Radnor, on old trees, Manchester ; [Venezuela !]. 



125. O. confertum, Gr. Tubers elliptical-oblong, compressed; leaves linear-acumi- 

 nate ; flowers glom/rate, white- and purple-variegated ; perigonial divisions erect-spreading, 

 hluntish, exterior ovate, interior oblong ; lip deltoid, bluntish : blade contracted into the 

 jointed claw, as long as it ■. basilar callus transverse, excurrent to the margin. — Cama- 

 ridium vestitum, Lindl. ! {PI. Wright.). — A few inches-1' high ; scales appressed, ovate, 

 pointed, 4'" long, except the large ones around the tubers ; tubers 8"'-12'" leaves 3 "-5" long, 

 the latter ehartaceous-flat, 3"'-5'" broad ; flowers in dense, distant clusters : perigone 2'" long, 

 little exserted from the bract. — Hab. Trinidad !, Brad/., not uncommon ; [Cuba !]. 



** Flowers fascicled, long-pedicellate. 



126. O. coccineum, Salisb. (#.). Stem low, sheathed with distichous scales below: 

 tubers oval or roundish, compressed ; leaves approximate, linear-lanceolate, blunt, obliquely 

 emarginate; flowers crimson, long-pedicellate, fascicled, nodding; perigonial divisions 

 spreading, ovate-lanceolate, pointed ; lip undivided, ovate-oblong, bluntish, contracted above 

 the broadly obovate, concave, continuous base. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 205. — Epidendrum, 

 Jacq. Cymbidium, Sw.— Leaves 6"-12" long, 8"'-10'" broad ; perigone 4'" long. — Hab. 

 Jamaica {Sw.) ; Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild. ; [French islands !], 



29. MAXILLAEIA, R. P. 

 Lip jointed with the produced, claw-like base of the column, cucullate : perigonial divi- 

 sions exterior lateral adhering to the column at their oblique base. Column narrow, ascend- 

 ing : pollinaria 4, incumbent or two posterior adhering to the anterior ones : caudicula 

 short : gland semilunar. — Stem elongated or reduced, usually with aerial tubers. 



Sect. 1. Eumaxillaria, Lindl. — Flowers single, axillary. — Stem scaly and leafy; leaves 

 chartaceous or leathery, not plaited. 

 127- M. alba, Lindl. I Stem compressed, leafy at the summit : scales distichous-im- 

 bricate, pointed : tubers oval-oblong, compressed, \-leaved ; leaves oblong-linear, comph- 

 cate-keeled, bluntish, leathery-chartaceous ; flowers white, exserted ; perigonial divisions ob- 

 long-lanceolate, acuminate with a bluntish point, spreading-erect, striate ; Up obsoletely a- 

 lobed ■. middle lobe ovate, bluntish : callus single, longitudinal. — Leaves 9"-18" long, 8 — 

 10'" broad; perigone 10"'-8'" long.— Hab. Jamaica!, March; Trinidad!, Brad/., uncom- 

 mon on trees ; [Cuba ! to Guiana]. 



128. M. crassifolia, G. Rchb. (Z.) Stem reduced, few-scaly ; tubers few or wanting, 

 1-leaved ; leaves rosulate, oblong-linear, bluntish, leathery, keeled, complicate towards the 

 base only ; flowers " yellow," exserted ; perigonial divisions oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 with a bluntish point, erect, striate; lip obsoletely S-lobed: middle lobe ovate-oblong, 

 blunt : callus single. — Bot. Reg. t. 1 028. — Heterotaxis, Lindl. Dicrypta Baueri, Lindl. 

 Longest leaves 1£' long, 9"'-10'" broad ; perigone 6"'-8'" long.— Hab. Jamaica !, M' Nab ; 

 [Cuba ! to Venezuela]. 



129. M. (?) inflexa, Gr. "Stem elongated, somewhat branched : tubers 2-leaved ; 

 leaves unequal, leathery, oblong, channelled at the oa3e ; flowers single ; perigonial divisions 

 ovate, pointed; lip %-lobed: lateral lobes falcate-inflexed, middle roundish, tnbercled at the 

 base." — Camaridium, Lindl. {Ann. Nat. Hist. 5. 116). — "Leaves about 2" long." — Hab. 

 Dominica {Lindl.). 



Sect. 2. Xtlobium, Lindl. — Inflorescence radical. — Stem reduced: leaves plaited. 



130. M. rufescens, Lindl. ! Scape 1-Jlowered, few-sheathed, as long as the 1-leaved, 



