92 OECHIDACEAE. 



5. Encyclia diurna (Jacq.) Britton & Millspaugh. 



Limodorum diurnum Jacq. Ic. Ear. 3: pi. 603. 1786-93. 

 Epidendrum gracile Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 21: pi. 1765. 1835. 

 Epidendrum cdtissimum Batem. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 24: Misc. 38. 1838. 

 Epidendrum virens Lindl. in Paxton, Fl. Gard. 1: 152. 1850-51. 

 Epidendrum diurnum Cogn. in Urban, Symb. Ant. 6 : 497. 1910. 



Plants usually clustered, sometimes forming large colonies. Pseudobulbs 

 elongated, ovoid-oblong, 10 cm. long or less. Leaves 2 or 3, linear, rigid, 

 acute or obtuse, 2-5 dm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide; scape more or less branched, 

 5-10 dm. high; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long; lateral sepals greenish or purplish, 

 narrowly oblong, acute or obtusish, about 2 cm. long; petals similar to the 

 sepals, obtuse, narrowed below; Up a little shorter than the sepals, white lined 

 with purple, deeply 3-lobed, the middle lobe suborbicular or rhomboid-orbicular, 

 rounded or retuse and apiculate, the lateral lobes oblong, obtuse ; column clavi- 

 form, about 1 cm. long; capsule oval, 1.5-3 cm. long. 



On the ground, in rocky soil, or sometimes on trees, throughout the archipelago, 

 from Abaco and Great Bahama to Andros, Mariguana, Acklin's and Caicos Islands : 

 Cuba ; Mexico to Venezuela. Consists of many races, differing in size of the plant, 

 of the leaves and of the flowers, and in color of the perianth. TALL ENCYCLIA. 



6 Encyclia inague"nsis Nash, sp. nov. 



Stems slender, up to 1 m. tall, usually from a creeping rootstock, the 

 pseudobulbs up to 1 dm. long and 1.5 cm. in diameter at the base, gradually 

 narrowed from the base to the apex. Leaves linear, up to 5 dm. long and 1 cm. 

 wide, acute; inflorescence up to 6 dm. long, paniculate, the branches ascending, 

 the lower ones longer and bearing 2-5 flowers. Flowers 2.5-3 cm. in diameter, 

 fragrant; sepals and petals yellow, irregularly striped with purple, the sepals 

 oblong-elliptic, acute, the petals oblanceolate-spathulate, acute ; lip about as 

 long as the sepals, white, the lateral lobes and margin of the middle lobe 

 yelow, all flushed and striped with purple; lateral lobes ascending, oblong, 

 acutish, 8-10 mm. long, the middle lobe almost orbicular, undulate on the 

 margin, retuse, 8-9 mm. in diameter, almost sessile ; column white, striped with 

 purple, about 1 cm. long. 



On shrubs and trees. Type collected between Northwest Point and Southwest 

 Point, Little Inagua, Oct. 21, 1904 (Nash and Taylor, 1251). A barren specimen from 

 East Caicos (Millspaugh 9111) may be of this species. INAGUA ENCYCLIA. 



7. Encyclia plicata (Lindl.) Britton & Millspaugh. 



Epidendrum plicatum Lindl. Bot. Beg. 33: under pi. 10. 1847. 



Pseudobulbs ovoid, terete, 8 cm. long or less. Leaves 2 or sometimes 3, 

 coriaceous, stiff, 1.5-2.5 dm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide; scape usually much longer 

 than the leaves, simple or more or less branched; pedicels slender, 1-1.5 cm. 

 long; lateral sepals oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, purplish or greenish, 2.5-3 

 cm. long; petals similar to the lateral sepals; lip about as long as the petals, 

 yellowish or whitish striped with purple, deeply 3-lobed, the middle lobe sub- 

 orbicular, cordate, emarginate and sometimes cuspidate, the lateral lobes oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse; column about 15 mm. long; fruit oval, 2-3 cm. long. 



On shrubs and trees in thickets, Abaco, Andros, New Providence, Fortune 

 Island, Cat Island, Crooked Island and Inagua : Cuba. Recorded by Hitchcock as 

 E. virens Lindl., and by Mrs. Northrop as E. phoeniceum L/indl. PLICATE ENCYCLIA. 

 Catesby, 2 : pi. 88. 



8. Encyclia acicularis (Batem.) Britton & Millspaugh. 



Epidendrum aciculare Batem.; Lindl. Bot. Beg. 27: Misc. 46. 1841. 



Pseudobulbs ovoid, clustered, 2-3 cm. long; leaves 1 or 2, narrowly linear, 

 2-7 cm. long, about 5 mm. wide. Scape usually simple, few-several-flowered, 

 longer than the leaves; pedicels very slender, about 1 cm. long; lateral sepals 



