90 OECHIDACEAE. 



12. AULIZA Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soe. 1: 294. 1812. 



Epiphytic or terrestrial orchids, with erect or ascending, leafy, often 

 clustered stems, subcoriaceous sessile leaves with sheathing bases, and rather 

 large pedicelled flowers in terminal racemes or panicles, or solitary; pseudo- 

 bulbs none. Sepals often elongated. Petals linear to spatulate. Lip various. 

 Column adnate to the base of the lip. Pollinia 4, appendaged. [Greek, 

 perching.] Eighty species or more, of tropical and subtropical America. 

 Type species: Epidendrum ciliare L. 



1. Auliza noctuma (Jacq.) Small, Fl. Miami 56. 1913. 



Epidendrum nocturnum Jacq. Enum. 29. 1760. 



Epiphytic or saxicolous; stems stiff, clustered, rather slender, usually 

 erect, 3-11 dm. high. Leaves oblong to elliptic, oblong-lanceolate or linear- 

 oblong, 7-16 cm. long, acute at the apex, partly clasping at the base, the 

 sheaths cylindric, the lower ones bladeless; flowers solitary or two together, 

 peduncled, the peduncle 2-10 cm. long; bracts ovate or lanceolate, 3-6 mm. 

 long; lateral sepals green, linear-attenuate, 3-6 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide; petals 

 yellow, similar to the sepals, but a little narrower; lip white, 3-cleft, the 2 

 lateral lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, 10-15 mm. long, the middle lobe setaceous, 

 3-5 cm. long; capsule oblong, narrowed at both ends, 2.5-4 cm. long. 



On trees in coppices, Abaco, Andros and New Providence : — Florida ; Cuba ; 

 Hispaniola ; Porto Rico ; .Jamaica ; Trinidad ; tropical South America. Slender 

 Auliza. Catesby, 2 : pi. 68. 



13. ENCYCLIA Hook. Bot. Mag. pi. 2831. 1828. 



Epiphytic or rarely terrestrial orchids, with mostly terete, short or elon- 

 gt'ted pseudobulbs, flat, mostly stiff, elongated narrow leaves duplicate in the 

 bud, and rather large, racemose or panicled bracted flowers on a long terminal 

 scape. Lateral sepals broad or narrow, about as wide as the similar median 

 one; petals spatulate to linear. Lip longitudinaly crested or appendaged, 

 3-lobed, the middle lobe much wider than the lateral ones, often emarginate. 

 Column usually adnate to the lip at its base and sometimes enclosed by it. 

 Capsules ribbed. [Greek, wrapped around.] Perhaps 75 species, of tropical 

 and subtropical America. Type species: Encyclia viridiflora Hook. These 

 orchids are locally called Wild Indian. 



Middle lobe of the lip acute or tipped. 1. E. fiicata. 



Middle lobe of the lip rounded or retuse. 



Flowers panicled ; middle lobe of the lip rounded, retuse or 

 apiculate. 

 Column short. 6 mm. long or less. 



Sepals obtuse ; lip sessile or nearly so. 2. E. hahamensis. 



Sepals acute ; lip clawed. 3. E. rufa. 



Column long. 7-10 mm. long. 



Pseudobulbs ovoid, 4-7 cm. long. 4. E. tampensis. 



Pseudobulbs ovoid-oblong, up to 10 cm. long. 



Sepals and petals purplish or greenish ; leaves 



1.5-2.5 cm. wide. 5. E. cliurna. 



Sepals and petals yellow ; leaves 1 cm. wide or 



less. 6. E. inaguensis. 



Flowers racemose or inflorescence with a few branches. 



Leaves broadly linear : middle lobe of the lip cordate. 7. E. pUcata. 



Leaves norrowly linear ; middle lobe of the lip ovate, 



rounded. ■ 8. E. acicularis. 



