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narrowly spatulate or oblaneeolate, purple, acute, 2-3 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide; 

 petals similar to the sepals; lip white, lined with rose, a little shorter than 

 the sepals, deeply 3-lobed, the middle lobe ovate, rounded, the lateral lobes 

 oblong, obtuse; column about 1 cm. long, 2-auricled at the summit. 



Bahamas, collected by Skinner, according to Lindley : Mexico. A plant found on 

 Conocurpus in an open coastal coppice, at Great Bahama at Golden Grove (Britton 

 and Millspaugh 2728), was doubtfully referred to this species by Mr. K. A. Bolfe at 

 Kew. It subsequently produced a few flowers at the New York Botanical Garden 

 which do not wholly agree with those of Mexican specimens. Narkow-leaved 

 Enciclia. 



Epidendrum papilionaceum Vahl, is doubtfully recorded as Bahamian by 

 Urban and by Cogniaux, the determination based on barren specimens collected 

 by Eggers in New Providence. 



14. EPICLADIUM Small, Fl. Miami 56. 1913. 



An epiphytic orchid, with nearly orbicular flattened pseudobulbs, narrow, 

 erect, flat leaves, duplicate in the bud, the flowering scape subtended by an 

 elongated spathe-like sheath. Flowers racemose or solitary, minutely bracted, 

 showy, mottled. Lateral sepals about as wide as the median one; petal3 

 similar to the lateral sepals; lip subrhombic, shorter than the sepals; column 

 without a foot, partly adnate to the lip. Capsules nodding, winged. [Greek, 

 upon a branch.] A monotypic genus. 



1. Epicladium Boothianum (Lindl.) Small, Fl. Miami 56. 1913. 



Epidendrum Boothianum Lindl. Bot. Reg. 24: Misc. 5. 1838. 

 Epidendrum erythronioides Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 328. 1903. 



Pseudobulbs clustered or solitary on branches, about 2.5 cm. long, less 

 than 1 cm. thick, subtended by ovate, subscarious scales 1-2 cm. long. Leaves 

 oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse or acutish, 6-12 cm. long; flowering stem simple, 

 mostly longer than the leaves, 2-3 times as long as the sheath; flowers 1-sev- 

 eral; pedicels 3-5 mm. long; lateral sepals oblong to elliptic-oblanceolate, 

 acute, yellow, mottled with brown, about 13 mm. long; petals spatulate, yellow, 

 brown-mottled, about as long as the sepals; lip yellowish, about 7 mm. long; 

 capsule 2-3 cm. long, oblong, 3-winged. 



On trees, Andros : Florida ; Cuba. Epicladium. Catesby, 2 : pi. 74. 



15. ANACHEILIUM Hoffmg. Linnaea 16: Litt. 229. 1842. 



Epiphytic orchids, with elongated, somewhat flattened psudobulbs, long 

 flat leaves duplicate in the bud, and nodding racemose bracted flowers on a 

 simple terminal scape. Sepals all nearly alike, elongated, narrow, acuminate. 

 Petals similar to the sepals, but somewhat shorter; lip concave, entire, much 

 shorter than the sepals. Column partly adnate to the lip, footless. Capsules 

 winged, drooping. [Greek, upturned lip.] The genus is probably monotypic. 



1. Anacheilium cochleatum (L.) Hoffmg. Linnaea, 16: Litt. 229. 1842. 



Epidendrum cochleatum L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 1351. 1763. 



Pseudobulbs lanceolate to ovate, compressed, 8-12 cm. long, clustered. 

 Leaves 2 or 3, linear or linear-oblong, acute, 1-4 dm. long; scape simple, 1.5-6 

 dm. long, bearing several linear-lanceolate scarious scales 1-3 cm. long and 

 subtended by a larger, scarious, spathe-like scale 5-8 cm. long; flowers few- 

 several, racemose; bracts small; lateral sepals linear-lanceolate, greenish yellow, 



