398 • OKCIllDES. tpiDiiiNDHUM. 



nulo inedio Irilanielialo; lobo raedio carnoso seniitereli recurvo latera- 

 jibns erectis menibran.Tceis intcgris. 



Wild io Mexico . Vera f:ruz — Hartweg (v. v. c.) — Iii hnbit resenibles Fernaniiezia. 



Flower dull chocolale brown. 



15. SARCOPHYLLA Rclib. fil. 



301. EPIDENDRUiM MICROPIIYLLUM Lindl. in Hook. Journ. III. 85. Huc Lindl. L c. 133.: 



E. ramulis loliosis, luliis dislichis angustis carnosis canaliculalis aculis 

 serrulatis lacemo ttrminali tomentoso multo brevioribus, sepalis arislatis, 

 pelalis linearibus, labello oblongo acuto basi bilamellalo venis tribus 

 per medium obsoletis. 



Epidendrum? sarcophyUutn Focice , Tijdschrift ne(Terl. IV. 67. 

 Wiid in Demerara — Schomburgk; Hosimann 626 , in herb. Mus. Par. and Miquel 

 (v. V. c. ei s. s|>.) — A small creeping species . with woolly dull purple or greenish 

 flowers. The culiivated plant has much longer foot-stalks to the flowers than the 

 wild one. M. Focke observes that the poUen - masses are incumbent. not collateral, 

 a circumslance which leads him to ask wheiher this is really an Epidendrum. See 

 his excellent description in the work above quoied. 



Huc : Epidendrum ? sarcophyllum Focke in Tijdschr. Nalurk. Wetensch. IV. p. 67. 

 Rhizomate repenle, caule fusiformi terete folioso, foliis semitereti- 

 bus mucronatis carnosis, racemo lerminali paucifloro, sepalis oblongis 

 acuminatis, laleralibus basi connatis sublalcatis, petalis mullo aiigusti- 

 oribus lineaiibus, labello suborbiculato acuminalo conc.vo, colurana 

 lerele clavata, clinandrio marginalo bidentato. 



Rhizoma repens, torluosum , annulatum. Radices filiformes , griseae. Caules breves, 

 fusiformes . tereles , foliosi, arrecii. Folia disticha, semiterelia. canaliculata , lineari- 

 lanceolaia , mucronata . bosi vaginaniia, carnosa , rigida, pollicaria. Pedunculus race- 

 mosus . terminalis, filiformis, erecius , 5 — 8- florus , foliis longior ; purpureus, al- 

 bido - lanuginosus. Flores minuti . bracteis vaginanlibus acutis glabris viridibus suf- 

 fulti , viridescentes. Perianthium patens. Sepala ellipiico - oblonga , acuminata , con- 

 vexa; lateralia labello supposita subfalcata. basi connata . adscendentia. Petala multo 

 angusiiora , lanceoiala , apice atteuuata. Labellum posticum , petaloideum , subro- 

 tundum . acuminatum , basi columnae adnatum ibique lamellis 2 acutis disco adpres- 

 sis insiruclum, saccalo - concavum , circa columnara conuivens. Columna leres , cla- 

 vata, brevis , in uvarium pesupiiiala , purpureu - picia ; clinundrio obliquo , niarginato, 

 postice bideiiiaio. Siigma riuiale , labellum versus spcctans. Anihera suborbicularis, 

 iipice bifida, convexa . cinandrio immersa , biiocularis , lyculis sepio transverso bi- 

 partitis. Pollinia quatuor ovaia, per paria sibi iuvicem supcrposita, quorum 2 supe- 

 riora longiuscule unguiculata per paria caudiculis duabus pulverulenlis replicatis 

 parallelis adnata, Havida. Ovarium teres . purpureum . sparse pubescens , sub lente 

 floccosura. Capsula globosa . apiculata, pisi raagniludine. — Herba pusilla epiphyla. 

 Florei Junio, Julio, Novembri. — Hancce plantam ad calceni generis Epidendri collo- 

 cavi . elsi mihi non liqueat, eam revera huc pertinere. Descriptionem e plania sedulo 

 inspecta fidam ac fusam dare conaius sum. Videant Botanici . qui , me feliciores, 

 librorum copia et reliquis naturae siudioso necessariis adminiculis gaudent . an no- 

 vum aliquod genus hic lateat. Sepala lateralia basi coalita . j)ollinia incumbentia , nec 

 collalcralia , ideoque caudicularum numcrus iiiihi dilTcrenlias salis conspicuas cousli- 

 tuere videntur. 



C. TEHETIFOLIA Hclib. lil. 



302. EPIDENDRUM TERES Hchb. QL in Bonpl. III. ^20. 



Koliis terelibus, labelli compressi lundo basilan carinati lobis Idte- 

 ralibus humililer anguiaLis ereclis, iobo inedio liiangulo aucipili. 



