390 ORCHIDACEAE 
37. SPATHIGER Small. Epiphytie herbs with stiff, creeping stems and 
branehes. Leaves mostly ascending or spreading, with rather narrow blades, 
and sheathing bases. Flowers in the axils of clasping bracts. Perianth small 
and inconspicuous. Lateral sepals broad, often wider than the median one. 
Petals rather broad, scarcely dilated upward. Lip concave; blade ovate, sub- 
orbicular, or reniform olumn short, ad adnate to the lip. Capsule ereet. 
—About 10 species, of tropical Ameri 
subtended by the bract. 
Spike with the bracts separated: lip rounded at the apex: capsule ovoid, Er E 
1. S. rigidus 
Spike with the bracts imbricate : lip acute or acuminate: cap- 
sule globose-ovoid, short-beaked, invested by the bract. 2. S. strobiliferus. 
1. S. rigidus (Jaeq.) Small. Plant with creeping stem and branches 1-5 
long: leaf-blades elliptic, sometimes narrowly so, 4—8 em. long: perianth green- 
j ate or elliptic-ovate, 
-7 m ng: petals broadly linear to 
elliptic spatulate: lip ps ; blade 2-3 
long, triangular-reniform to subor- 
bicular, bearing callos ities near the base: 
capsule 15-18 mm. long. [Epidendrum 
E Jaeq.]—Hammocks, S pen. Fla. 
— “Mex, C. d., S. 4.) —Bpr. 
2. S. pedis PaT f.) Sm 
Plant with cree and br c 
0.5-3 dm. long: E: af- blades elliptic n 
id linear or ~ earned 1-2. 
ar ng: anth inly solls 
lat "n eepal obliquely | ae: to 
obliquely. Bod 3-4.5 long: 
A 
80 ns ast icted 
near the base: lip white or whitish; blade 2-3 mm. long, ovate-cordate, unap- 
pendaged: capsule 5-7 mm. long. LEpidendrum S 10 Reichenb. f.l— 
Hammocks, S pen. Fla.—( W. I., C. A., S. 4.) —Spr. 
38. AMPHIGLOTTIS Salisb. SU pk herbs with erect or ee 
often tufted, stems. Leaves ascending or spreading, with broad or na 
blades, and sheathing bases, Bs lower portion of P» stem often merely E 
and sometimes thickened after the manner of an elongate pseudobulb. 
ers in a terminal open or contracted raceme or ns usually long- uera 
Perianth rather large, often showy. Lateral sepals obtuse, acute, or attenuate, 
often elongate. Petals spa cua or slender and attenuate. Lip relatively 
large, entire or fimbriate, the middle lobe wanting, minute or elongate. Col- 
mn elongate, wholly adnate je the lip-base. Capsule drooping.—About 80 
species of tropical America. 
Lip with 2 spreading lateral lobes and a broad middle lobe. 
Blade of the T about as broad as long, the middle lobe about as large as the 
lateral o . 
Sepals Hob "ribbed, the lateral ones spatulate: lip with 2 
appendages at the base: column slender 1 
Sepals ribbed, the lateral ones falcate- Oae: lip unap- 
endaged : column stou 2 
Blade of e lip much e oa long, the middle lobe much m . 
smaller than the lateral one 3. A. difformis. 
Lip with 2 lateral lobes directed forward and a slender elon- 
gate middle lobe. 4 
. A. conopsea. 
. A. anceps. 
. A. nocturna. 
