Tab. 7389. 



ERYCINA echinata, Lindl. 



Native of Mexico. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^:. — Tribe Vandej:. 

 Genus Erycina, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 565.) 



Erycina echinata ; herba epipbytica, caule brevi apice pseudobulbum soli- 

 tarium monophyllum gerente, foliia e basi lata sesailibus distichis 

 imbricatis ovatis acutis apiculatis sursum sensim majoribus, pelunculo 

 axillari gracili decurvn, racetno simplici v. paniculatim raraoso pauci- 

 floro, bracteia pateutibus lanceolatis vaginato, pedicellis brevibus muri- 

 culatis, sepalis parvia subherbaceis postico ovato acuminato galeato 

 recurvo basi tumido, lateralibns lanceolatis basi connatia divarioatis, 

 petalia ovatis acutia reflexis, labello basi colnmnas adnato sepalis petalisque 

 multoties majore platio aureo profnnde 3-lobo sinubns rotundatis, lobia 

 lateralibus basi contractia flabelliformibns, intermedio unpniyulato 

 transverse oblongo, disco ad baain lobi medii callis 2 et appendicibua 2 

 erectis elongatia linguagformibus instructo, columna breviasima apoda 

 exalata basi utrinque tumida, rostello elongato sigmoideo erecto, anthera 

 inoumliente elongata longe rostrata, polliniis 2 ovoideis apice stipitis 

 gracilis geniculatim inflexi sesailibus, glandula magna ovata, capsula 

 ecbinata. 



E. ecbinata, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 1853. Beichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 

 739. Hemsl. Biol. Cent. Amer. vol. iii. p. 289. 



Oncidium echinatum, Humb. Bonpl. & Kunth, Nov. Gen. et. Sp. Amer. vol. i. 

 p 345, t. 79. 



A very singular little Orchid, belonging to the South 

 American subtribe OncidiesB, and with the aspect of a 

 small Oncidium, but differing remarkably from that genus 

 in the structure of the lip and column, the former being 

 almost equally 3-lobed, and the latter being very short, 

 thick, and without wings. The vertical position of the 

 clinandrium, too, with the very long anther at its back, and 

 the long rostellum, are quite unlike any Oncidium. 

 Bentham rightly compares the appendages of the lip and 

 the rostellum to those of the Brazilian genus Zugostates, 

 Lindl., in which the column, though longer, is as in Erycina 

 footless, the rostellum very long, and the clinandrium lies 

 at the back of the column. 



Erycina echinata was discovered by Humboldt at the 



beginning of the century, at or near Acapulco, on the 



west coast of Mexico, and it has since been collected by 



Galeotti at the Laguna de Tututepec in the province of 



December 1st, 1894. 



