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subrotundato, profunde emarginato, lobulis apiee rotundatis, disco 
 tenuiter unicostato, basi minute bicalloso; columna claviformi, 11— 
12 mm. longa. 
Epidendrum patens Sw. in Nov. Act. Ups. VI (1799) p.68, Flor. 
III p. 1495; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1537; Bot. Mag. t. 3800; Griseb. Flor. 
, p. 617; Eggers, Fl. St. Oroix et Virg. n.968; Veitch, Man. Orch. VI 
; p. 110; Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. III.5 p. 94 t. 26. 
Flores leviter odorati, primum flavo-virides, deinde albo-flavescentes, 
demum fusco - rubri. 
Hab. in Jamaica (ex Swartz), in rupibus ad Guava Ridges 650 m. 
alt.: Eggers n. 3507; St. Thomas (ex Eggers l.c.); Trinidad: Purdie. 
— Guatemala, Costa-Rica, Peruvia or., Brasilia. 
286. Epidendrum tridentatum Fawc. caulibus leviter compressis, 
inferne plus minusve denudatis, superne distiche multifoliatis, 3—5 dm. 
longis, 4—6 mm. crassis; foliis submembranaceis, oblongis vel oblongo- 
lanceolatis, acutis, 11—13 cm. longis, 2—3 cm. latis; pedunculo com- 
muni simpliei rarius ramoso, gracili, nutante, 6—15 cm. longo, basi 
nudo vel interdum spatha 10—15 mm. longa incluso, superne den- 
siusceule pluri— multifloro; pedicellis plus minusve patulis, cum ovario 
20—28 mm. longis; bracteis lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 6—12 mm. 
longis; sepalis submembranaceis, patulis, lanceolatis, acutissimis, dis- 
tinete 7-nervulosis, 18 mm. longis, dorsali 5 mm. lato, lateralibus paulo 
latioribus; petalis lineari-subspathulatis, acutis, trinervulosis, 17 mm. 
longis, 21/,—2°/, mm. latis; labello carnosulo, 10—11 mm. longo, 
16 mm. lato, basi subcordato, trilobato, lobis lateralibus amplis, sub- 
quadratis, margine leviter undulatis, lobo terminali minore, subrectan- 
gulo, apice trilobulato, lobulis triangulis, acutis vel obtusis, inter- 
medio minore, disco obtuse tricostato, basi bicalloso; columna clavi- 
formi, 11 mm. longa. ; 
Epidendrum tridentatum Fawe.! in Journ. of Bot. XXAXIN 
(1895) p. 12, in Jamaica Bull. IT (1895) p. 217. 
Hab. in Jamaica supra arbores ad Blue Mountains, Woodeutters 
Gap, Hardware Gap alt. 1300 m., fl. IV, X, XII: W. Harris in Herb. 
Bot. Dep. s.n. et n. 7575. 
C. Tenuifolia Benth. in Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pi. III (1883) p. 530. — 
Spec. 287. 
287. Epidendrum jamaicense Lindl. caulibus superne foliatis, 
eirciter 30 cm. longis; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, acutissimis, 7—12 em. 
longis; racemo simpliei, foliis breviore; bracteis herbaceis, lanceo- 
lato-linearibus, acuminatis, pedicellis aequilongis; floribus membrana- 
.eeis; sepalis lanceolato-spathulatis, acutis, 16 mm. longis; petalis 
