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terminal shoots lanceolate, acuminate, rigid, recurved at apex, 

 concave, sessile, half-clasping at base. — Sw. FL Ind. Occ. 1515; 

 Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 434 ; Reichb. f. in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. 

 Ges. Hi. 275 ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 638 ; Bolfe in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xxxii. 471 (1896) ; Gogn. in Symb. Ant. vi. 324. V. bar- 

 bellata Beichb. /. in Flora xlviii. 274 (1865). Cereo affinis 

 scandens planta &c. Sloane Hist. ii. 160, t. 224, fig. 3, 4. Cactus 

 parasiticus L. Syst. ed. 10, 1054 (1759) (in part, i.e. so far as 

 concerns reference to Sloane Jam.'). Epidendrum claviculatum Sw. 

 Prodr. 120 (1788). (PI. 2, f. 18,' 19.) Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Greenwithe . 



On shrubs and trees, growing on limestone rocks ; in fl. and fr. June ; 

 Angels, near Spanish Town, and on hills near, Sloane Herb. vii. 86 ! in 

 very dry, calcareous mountainous places, Swartz ! Retirement, St. 

 Elizabeth, J.P. 460, Morris ! Stony Hill, J.P. 460 (2613) Syme I Constant 

 Spring 650 ft., Stony Hill, 900 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5827, 10,411 {Marchl 

 in Hb. Kew. ; owing to the unsatisfactory condition of the flower, which 

 has apparently a glabrous lip, we have had some hesitation in referring it 

 to this species). — Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Bahamas. 



Stem leafless on main stem, thick, 1 cm. or more br., shrivelling very 

 much, to 5 or 6 mm., when dry; internodes about 10 cm. 1. ; adventitious 

 roots often twisting spirally like tendrils. Leaves 3-8 cm. 1. Bacenie with 

 8-12 sessile flowers, to 14 cm. 1. Bracts below like the leaves, but much 

 smaller, above triangular, acuminate, 2- '5 cm. 1. Ovary f as long as the 

 sepals, cylindrical. Flowers fragrant, glaucous green sepals with a white 

 and purplish lip, perianth nearly 2 ins. 1., crowded towards apex of raceme. 

 Sepals narrowly elliptical, obtuse, 4-4' 7 cm. 1., 1-1 '1 cm. br. Petals as 

 long as sepals, keeled, 1*3 cm. br. Lip roundish, crenate and curled on 

 upper margin, attached to column for two-thirds its length, with ramen- 

 taceous hairs inside along the central line, and at the sides below, 5 cm. L, 

 about 4-6 cm. br. when flattened out. Column 3 cm. 1. Capsule ellip- 

 soidal-cylindrical, thickest in the upper part, narrowing gradually to the 

 base, 10 cm. 1., 1-6 cm. br. 



Swartz says, "flores albi . . . odor fortis Orchidearum." Grisebach 

 quotes Wright as saying "perigonium rufescenti-virens, labello rubro- 

 marginato et punctate, mediano intus barbato." We have not taken the 

 species name from Linnseus's Cactus parasiticus owing to the great 

 confusion in his references. In the Systenm (1759) he describes C. 

 parasiticus as "repens, teres, striatus, muticus," referring to (1) Sloan. 

 Jam. 224, f. 3, 4, the specimen of which is in Herb. Sloane, and is 

 Vanilla claviculata Sw. ; (2) Plum. Ic. 197, f. 2, probably a species of 

 Bhipsalis. In Species Plantarum, ed. 2, i. 668 (1762) he repeats the 

 diagnosis from the Sy sterna, but drops the reference to Sloane, citing instead 

 Cactus parasiticus inermis dc. Browne Jam. 238. In the Linnean 

 Herbarium there is a specimen from Browne named Cactus parasiticus by 

 Linnseus; this has no flower, and is either Dendrophylax funalis, or a 

 leafless epecies of Campy locentrum. 



2. V. inodora Schiede in Linnsea iv. 574 (1829); leaves 

 much longer than the internodes, elliptical, shortly acuminate, 

 membranous, very shortly stalked ; bracts in two ranks, foliaceous, 

 membranous, like the leaves but much reduced and varying in 

 size. — Bolfe op. cit. 449 ; Cogn. op. cit. 320. Vanilla flore viride 

 et albo, fructu nigrescente, Plum. Nov. Gen. PL Amer. 25, t. 28 



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