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vel paullo minora. Labellum ad apicem pedis columnae erectum, 
concavum, basi articulatum breviter contractum, trilobatum; lobi late- 
rales columnam laxe amplectentes, medius patens; discus callosus vel 
barbatus. Columna erecta, curvula, semiteres, exalata, basi in pedem 
brevem producta; clinandrium parum prominens, truncatum. An- 
thera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, valde convexa vel conica, 
imperfecte 2-locularis; pollinia 4, cerea, ovata, compressa, per paria 
sibimet incumbentia, postico saepius minore, inappendieulata, anthera 
dehiscente stipiti plano latiuseulo affixa, glandula parva. — Herbae 
epiphyticae, Americae tropicae incolae, caulibus foliatis saepe ramosis, 
haud raro pseudobulbos hine inde axillares vel ad apices innovationum 
1—2-foliatos ferentibus. Folia ramorum florentium saepe numerosa, 
regulariter disticha, coriacea, vaginis imbricatis distiche compressis. 
Flores ad axillas foliorum distichorum solitarii, mediocres; peduneculi 
bracteis paleaceis stipati. 
395. Camaridium ochroleueum Lindl. caulibus robustis, leviter 
ramosis, 25—50 cm. longis, vaginis scariosis imbricatis vestitis, 
superne densiuscule multifoliosis; pseudobulbis paueis, oblongis, satis 
compressis, apice l-phyllis, 4--7 em. longis; foliis cum vagina arti- 
culatis, apice oblique emarginatis, junioribus brevibus elliptico-oblongis, 
adultis lineari-ligulatis 20—40 cm. longis; peduneulis gracilibus, 
3—7 em. longis; bracteis oblongis, acutis, inferne vaginantibus, 11/,— 
2 em. longis; sepalis erectis, late oblongis, acutis, 18—25 mm. longis, 
6—8 mm. latis; petalis oblongis, acutis, 16—22 mm. longis, 4—7 mm. 
latis; labello carnosulo, ambitu late ovato, utrinque glabro, 10—13 mm. 
longo, lobis integerrimis, lateralibus parvis, ereetis, obtusis, intermedio 
valde producto, late ovato, obtuso vel abrupte obtusiusculo, callo ob- 
longo, minute tubereulato, tubereulis inferioribus apice setosis; columna 
cerassa, 9—12 mm. longa; anthera obtuse conica, laevi. 
Camaridium ochroleueum Lindl.! in Bot. Reg. X (1824) t. 844: 
Griseb. Flor. p. 627; Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. III.6 p. 83. 
Oymbidium ochroleucum Lindl.! Gen. and Sp. Orch. (1833) p.168; 
Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 4141. 
Ornithidium album Hook.! in Bot. Mag. (1834) t. 3306. 
Flores odorati, albi vel albo-flavescentes rarius lilacini. Fl. I, II, 
IX—XI. 
Hab. in Jamaica: Hort. Kew.; Guadeloupe in sylvis supra 
arbores ad Bains Jaunes, Nez Cass6: Duss n. 3814, 3856; Trinidad: 
Crueger, Bradford, Fendler n. 778. — Costa-Rica, Venezuela, Guiana 
Brasilia sept. 
