EPIDENDRUM 99 



column shortly connate with lip above base. — Sw. Ic. ined. t, 43 ; 

 Griseh. op. cit. 615. Cymbidium serrulatum Sw. in Nov. Act. 

 Upsal. vi. 72 (1799) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1465. (PI. 15, f. 4.) Type 

 in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On trees ; in fl. and fr. throughout year ; summit of Blue Mountains, 

 Siuartz ! Macfadyen 1 Blue Mt. Peak, Purdie ! Blue Mountains, 6000- 

 7300 ft., J.P. 20, Morris I Jenmanl near Cinchona, 5000 ft. ; Morse's Gap, 

 5000 ft. ; Sir John Peak, 6000 ft. ; Blue Mt. Peak, 74^0 ft. ; Harris I Fl. 

 Jam. 7860, 10,452 ; summit of Sir John's Peak, Mrs. E. O. Britton, 3878 I 



Plant 1-4 in. high. Stem • 5-3 cm. 1., covered with sheaths. Leaf linear, 

 tapering below, sessile, apex acute, serrulate, 2-7 cm. 1., 3-5 mm. br., 

 turning blackish in drying. Sheaths one longer than stem, somewhat 

 spathaceous above, and one or two smaller and scarious below. Bracts 

 ovate-triangular, acute, half- clasping, 3-4 mm. 1. Flowers greenish, some- 

 times yellowish above, changing to reddish-yellow, sessile or subsessile, 

 perianth J in. 1. Ovary thicker above. Sepals fleshy, lanceolate, obtuse, 

 keeled, 5 mm. 1. Petals 3-nerved, narrowly oblong, obtuse, 4 mm. 1. Lip 

 indistinctly 3-lobed, lateral lobes rounded, median lobe triangular, disk 

 with three prominent nerves, 4 mm. 1., 3 mm. br. Column very short. 

 Capsule ellipsoidal, 10-11 mm. 1. 



30. E. globosum Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 29 (1760); stem 

 short, simple, without pseudobulbs, with a few linear leaves, 

 and a few minute flowers (rarely one) with very short stalks 

 clustered at apex ; column free.^ — Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Amer. 222, 

 t 133, /. 1, Ed. pict. t 203; Sw. Prodr. 121; Griseh. op. cit. 

 619 ; Beichb. f. in Saund. Bef. Bot. ii. t. 140 ; Cogn. in Fl. 

 Bras. Hi. pt. 5, 43, t. 9,/. 1 & in Symh. Ant. iv. 173. Cymbidium 

 globosum Sw. in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 72 (1799) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 

 1467. Isochilus globosum Lindl Gen. & Sp. Orch. 112 (1831). 



On trees ; in fl. and fr. throughout year ; Macfadyen I Imray ; Purdie ! 

 Moneague, Prior I New Carmel, Wullschlaegel, 1092 1 Wag Water River, 

 J.P. 2333, Syme ! Troy, 1600 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 10,445, 10,486.— 

 Cuba, Porto Rico, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Dominica, 

 Martinique, St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad, Nicaragua, B. Honduras, 

 Mexico, B. Guiana, Brazil. 



Plant 1-6 in. high. Stems 2*5-14 cm. 1., numerous, clustered, 

 slender, many-jointed, covered with sheaths. Leaves short, fleshy, rigid, 

 linear, semiterete, flattened when dried, obtuse, jointed to the sheath, 

 1-2 cm. 1., 1*5-2 mm. br. Peduncles one-flowered, 1-2 mm. 1. Flowers 

 yellow, red-variegated, perianth \ in. 1. Bracts sheathing at the base, 

 1-1-5 mm. 1. Sepals fleshy, elliptical-ovate, obtusely acute, 3 mm. 1., 

 median slightly broader, 2 mm. br., lateral very shortly connate at base, 

 1-5 mm. br. Petals yellow, fleshy, ovate-subrhomboid, obtusely angled, 

 apex somewhat acute, a little shorter than the sepals. Lip fleshy, slightly 

 shorter than the sepals, undivided, obovate-rhomboid, apex obtuse, slightly 

 gibbous. Column short, thick, l| mm. 1. Capsule nodding, ellipsoidal- 

 ovoid, apex shortly beaked, 4 mm. 1., 3 mm. br. 



31. E. teretifolium Sw. Prodr. 121 (1788) ; stem long, simple, 

 without pseudobulbs^ with a few linear fleshy leaves, and one 

 flower at apex ; column connate with lip about half its length. — 

 Sw. Ic. ined. t. 44 ; Griseh. op. cit. 619. Cymbidium teretifolium 



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