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median 1'75 cm. 1., 4 mm. br. ; lateral keeled and slightly hooded towards 

 apex, about 1-5 cm. 1., barely 4 mm. br. Petals 6-nerved, narrowly oblong, 

 slightly keeled and hooded, 1-5 cm. 1., 3-5 mm. br. Lip sessile, 7-nerved 

 with lateral nerves, obovate-oblong in outline, 1 cm. 1., 7 mm. br., disk 

 2-lamellate below, lamellse and prominent middle nerve extending as 

 prominent lines towards apex, lateral lobes rounded, terminal lobe much 

 larger, at apex 3-lobulate, apiculate. Column about 7 mm. 1. 



27. CCELIALindl. 



Epiphytic herbs. Stems with several leaves, increasing at 

 the base to form fleshy pseudobulbs. Leaves long, narrow, 

 plaited, veiny. Scapes at the base of the pseudobulbs, short, 

 simple, with imbricate subspathaceous sheaths at the base. 

 Flowers medium-sized, densely racemose, shortly pedicellate. 

 Bracts membranous or paleaceous, narrow, longer than the 

 flowers. Sepals, all of about the same length, erect from the 

 base, spreading above ; median free, concave ; lateral broader, 

 connate at the base with the foot of the column, forming a short 

 or long chin. Petals somewhat similar to the median sepal. 

 Lip jointed at foot of column, narrow, incumbent at the base, 

 spreading above, undivided, contracted into a flexuose claw. 

 Column short, rather broad, acute, margined, produced at the 

 base into a foot. Anther terminal, opercular, incumbent, semi- 

 globose, perfectly 2-celled ; pollinia 8, waxy, four in each cell, 

 ovoid, cohering at the apex by a sparse viscid substance. Capsule 

 prominently winged. 



Species about 6, natives of the West Indies, Central America 

 and Mexico. 



C. triptera G. Bon ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 394 (1840).— 

 Griseh. FL Br. W. Ind. 629. C. Bauerana Lindl Gen. & Sp. 

 Orch. 36 (1830), in Bauer III. Orch. PI. Gen. t. ^ k Bot. Beg. 

 xxviii. t. 36 (1842). Epidendrum tripterum Sm. Ic. Pict. <. 14 

 (1793). Cymbidium tripterum Sw. in Nov. Act. JJpsal. vi. 70 

 (1799). Salish. Ic. ined. vi. fol. 571. (PI. 13, f. 1-7.) Type in 

 Herb. Smith in Linn. Soc. 



On rocky banks ; in fl. Jan.-Peb., in fr. March ; J.P. 486, Morris ! near 

 Browns Town, Miss T. M. Barrett 1 Chester Vale, 3000 ft. ; Silver Hill 

 Woodland ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7614. — Cuba, Mexico. 



Plant 1 ft. and more high. Pseudobulbs ovate-oblong, 3-5 cm. 1. 

 Leaves 3 or 4 from apex of pseudobulb, linear-lanceolate, long-tapering to 

 base where they are articulated with closed sheaths, 2-4 dm. 1. (incl. sheath), 

 1-2 cm. br. Scape 10-14 cm. 1. Bracts linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 

 2-2 '5 cm. 1. Flowers white, perianth a little over ^ in. 1. Ovary with 

 nine wings, three very broad, about 1 cm. 1. Sepals 5-nerved, ovate, 

 obtuse, about 7*5 mm. 1., and 3 mm. br. Petals oblong, concave, obtuse, 

 about 7 mm. 1., nearly 2 mm. br. Lip with seven branching veins, oblong 

 below, expanding to form an obscure lobe on each side about the middle, 

 tapering to an obtuse apex, with a callus along the upper margin as far 

 as the lobes, about 6 mm. 1., more than 3 mm. br. at lobes. Column scarcely 

 2 mm. 1. Capsule ellipsoidal, about 1 cm. 1. 



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