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visa, ex descr. et icone pariter ad Sobraliaz referenda videtur. Flores solito minores et braeteas 
numerosiores imbrieatz. Bractez tamen plures imbricatwe observantur in speciebus pluribus S. 
violacee, Lindl., affinibus. 
291. Epistephium, Kunth, Syn. Pl. ZEquin. i. 340.—Perianthium ad apicem ovarii 
urceolo calyciformi dentato cinctum. Sepala libera, subsequalia, erecta. Petala sepalis 
subsimilia nisi latiora magisque colorata. Labelli unguis columnze adnatus, lamina sub- 
patens, obovata, indivisa, basi columnam amplectens. Columna semiteres, superne bre- 
viter dilatata ; stigma sub rostello brevi latum ; clinandrium membranaceum, late 3-lobum. 
Anthera lobo postico clinandrii affixa, incumbens v. subpendula, loculis discretis ; pollinia 
laxe pulvereo-granulosa (in quoque loculo 2 v. 41). Capsula oblonga v. elongata, rigida. 
—Herbee terrestres, sepius elatse, subramosze, basi ssepius radicantes, glaberrim:. Folia 
rigide coriacea, nervosa, ovata v. lanceolata, sessilia v. cordato-amplexicaulia. Flores 
magni, in racemo terminali v. rarius axillari plures.  Bracte:e breves, latc. 
Species 6, Ameriem australis tropiez incole. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 432. H. B. et K. Nov. 
Gen. et Sp. vii. t. 632. Popp. et. Endl. Nov. Gen. et. Sp. 0. 91, 92. — Heichb. f. Xen. Orch. t. 1; in 
Jlonpl. 1854, 97 ; et in Linnea xli. 65. — Bot. Mag. t. 5485. 
292. Sertifera, Lindl. Herb. ; Reichb. f. in Linnca xli. 63. —8Sepala subeequalia, libera, 
erecto-patentia. Petala sepalis subsimilia nisi paullo angustiora. Labellum a basi 
1 erectum; latissi 1 m mm ginib 
columnam involvens, medio lamella oblique transversa quasi in saccos 2 superpositos 
divisum. Columna longiuscula, tenuis, exalata, apoda, rostello lato concavo membrana- 
ceo; clinandrium breve. Anthera in margine clinandrii erecta v. incumbens, loculis 
discretis ; pollinia pulvereo-granulosa, in quoque loculo (si rite observata) 4, appendice 
copiosa laxe granulosa connexa. Capsula . . .—Herba terrestris, rhizomate repente, 
caule elato foliato. Folia in vagina longa, sessilia, plicato-venosa. Racemi breves, fere 
in umbellam contracti,ad axillas pedunculati. Flores parvuli, longiuscule pedicellati. 
Bracte:w parvze, anguste. 
Species 1, Eeuadorensis, S. purpurea, Lindl., eui addidit Reichb. f. alteram Peruvianam, &. virgatam, 
a nobis non visam, qui racemo terminali dissitifloro, labello oblongo sub-3-lobo forte non vere 
congener. 
9223. (etiam. Corymborchis) Thow. Orch. Iles Afr. t. 37, 38. (Hysteria, 
Reim. án. Blume, Cat. Hort. Buitenz. 99, nomen tantum ; et àn Syll. Pl. Soc. Ratisb. ii. b. 
Rhynchanthera, Blume, Bijdr. tabell. 78, ex ejusd. Orch. Archip. Ind. 195.  Macrostylis, 
Breda, Orch. Kuhl et Hass. cum tab. l. Chloidia, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 484.)— 
Sepala et petala linearia, diu in tubum i ia v. subcoh tia, apice in laminas 
subpatentes plus minus dilatatum. —Labellum a basi column:e erectum, lineare, canalicu- 
latum, apice in laminam breviter recurvam dilatatum. Columna longa, erecta, teres, apice 
clavata, lobis v. auriculis 2 erectis terminata ; stigma ad basin rostelli erecti acuminati 
transverse saccatum, margine inferiore sepius incrassato ; clinandrium breve. Anthera 
erecta, angusta, rostello subzequil i loculis tiguis ; pollinia granul 
anthera dehiscente stipiti subuliformi a glandula peltata rostelli dependenti affixa ; pol- 
linario delapso rostellum 2-fidum remanet. Capsula linearis, subteres, perianthii reliquiis 
brevibus et columma persistente coronata.—Herbre elatz, t foliatzw, interd 
ramosee, fibris radicalibus in rhi te fasciculatis. Folia ampla, venis elevatis subplicata, 
in vaginis appressis sessilia v. breviter petiolata. Flores mediocres v. majusculi, secus 
ramos panieulee brevis axillaris v. terminalis subcorymbosse dissiti, subsessiles.  Bractewe 
parvie, ovato. 
Species 6 v. 7, per regiones tropicas utriusque orbis late disperse. Benth. Fl. Austral. vi. 311. 
Reichb. f. in Flora, 1865, 183, et in. Bonpl. 1854, 11, 96 (Maerostylis). .Blume, Orch. Archip. Ind. 
196, 4. 42, 43. 
Species Americans a Lindleyo sub nomine Chloidie a gerontogeis distinetw, nee habitu nec 
charaeteribus differunt. Genus in integrum servatum naturalissimum est, nulli nisi Tropidie 
affine. 
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