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regions of both hemispheres. In America extending as far north 

 as the Bahamas and Bermudas. 



Family ORCHIDACE/E. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Terrestrial plants, growing in soil. 



Flowers brick-red, with a spur about as long as the ovary. 



22 2. Slenorrhynchos squamulosus. 

 Flowers with brownish perianth, lip purplish, with no spur. 



232. Telramicra Eulophice. 

 Bracts and sepals greenish-yellow, petals and lip lemon-yellow; no spur. 



233. Cyrtopodium Andersonii. 

 Climbing plants with rather fleshy fruit. 



Bracts large, foliaceous; leaves longer than the internodes; pods 12-18 cm. 



long 221. Vanilla inodora. 



Bracts small, not foliaceous; leaves not longer than internodes; pods 15-25 cm. 



long 220. Vanilla planifolia. 



Plants growing on tiees, rocks, stones, etc., not in soil. 

 Without pseudo-buibs. 



Flowers with a short spur, white or pale rose, variegated with purple; lip 

 about I cm long; stem eiect and quite slender; plants growing on trees. 



234. lonopsis iitricularioides. 

 Flowers with no spur. 



Leaves about 2-6 cm. long, linglulate-oblong or oblong-elliptic; stems 

 erect, 5-14 cm. long, from a creeping rhizome; flowers green, 6-7 mm. 



long 230. Epidendrum rigidum. 



Leaves longer, from 6-20 cm. long. 



Stems erect, 20-30 cm. long; flowers pale yellow, sepals and petals 

 12-14 mm. long; leaves oblong or lance-oblong, 6-14 cm. long. 



224. Epidendrum pallidijlorum. 

 Flowers greenish- white to cream-colored. 4-5 cm. long; no spur; 

 stem erect, 10-35 cm. high; leaves up to 14-15 cm. long. 



229. Epidendrum nocturnum. 



Flowers light-brown, greenish-brown, or tawny-yellow, 6-8 mm. long; 



plant 30-90 cm. high; leaves 5-18 cm. long with a sheathing base; 



no spur 228. Epidendrum anceps. 



With pseudo-bulbs. 



Flowers lilac, 2.5-3.5 cm long; lip free from the column; pseudo-bulbs 2.5-5 

 cm. long, ellipsoidal to globose; the two leaves oblong-ligulate, 6-20 cm. 



long 231. Broughtonia domingensis . 



Flowers not lilac. 



Leaves rather large and comparatively lax, lance-oblong, 20-30 cm. 

 long, 3-5 cm. wide; pseudo-bulbs lance-ovoid to cylindrical; sepals 

 and petals pale green with one or two purple spots at base, lip purple; 

 column about half connate 227. Epidendrum cochleatum. 



