Orchidaceae. 607 



vel paiillo minora. Labelluni ad apiceni pedis columnae erectuni, 

 concavum, basi articulatum breviter contractum, tiilobatum; lobi late- 

 rales columnam laxe aniplcctentes, medius patens; disciis callosus vel 

 barbatiis. Coliimna erecta, curvnla, semiteres, exalata, basi in pedem 

 brevem producta; clinandrium parum prominens, truncatum. An- 

 thera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, valde convexa vel conica, 

 imperfecte 2-locularis; pollinia 4, cerea, ovata, comprcssa, per paria 

 sibiniet incumbentia, postico saepius minore, iuappendiculata, anthora 

 dehisceute stipiti piano latiusculo affixa, glandula parva. — Herbae 

 epiphyticae, Araericao tropicae incolae, caulibus foliatis saepe ramosis, 

 band raro pseudobulbos binc inde axillares vel ad apices innovationum 

 1— 2-foliatos ferentibus. Folia ramorum florentium saepe numerosa, 

 regulariter disticba, coriacea, vaginis imbricatis distiche compressis. 

 Flores ad axillas foliorum disticborum solitarii, mediocres; pedunculi 

 bracteis paleaceis stipati. 



395. Camaridium ocliroleucum Liudl. caulibus robustis, leviter 

 ramosis, 25 — 50 cm. longis, vaginis scariosis imbricatis vestitis, 

 superne densiiiscule multifoliosis; pseudobulbis paucis, oblongis, satis 

 compressis, apice J-pbyllis, 4 — 7 cm. longis; foKis cum vagina arti- 

 culatis, apice oblique emarginatis, junioribus brevibus elliptico- oblongis, 

 adultis lineari-ligulatis 20 — 40 cm. longis; pedunculis gracilibus, 

 3 — 7 cm. longis; bracteis oblongis, acutis, inferne vaginantibus, 172^" 

 2 cm. longis; sepalis erectis, ^ate oblongis, acutis, 18 — 25 mm. longis, 

 6 — 8 mm. latis; petalis oblongis, acutis, 16 — 22 mm. longis, 4 — 7 mm. 

 latis; labello carnosulo, ambitu late ovato, utrinqiie glabro, 10 — 13 mm. 

 longo, lobis integerrimis, lateralibus parvis, erectis, obtusis, intermedio 

 valde producto, late ovato, obtuso vel abrupte obtusiuscnlo, callo ob- 

 longe, minute tuberculato, tuberculis inferioribus apice setosis; columna 

 crassa, 9 — 12 mm. longa; anthera obtuse conica, laevi. 



Camaridium ockroleiicimi Lindl! in Bot. Reg. X (1824) t.844: 

 Griseb. Flor. p. 627; Cogn. in Marl FL Bras. III. 6 p. 83. 



Cymhidium ochroleucum Lindl.! Gen. and Sp. Dreh. (1833) p. 168; 

 Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4141. 



Ornithidiam album Hoolc! in Bot. Mag. (1834) t. 3306. 



Flores odorati, albi vel albo-flavescentes rarius lilaciui. Fl, I, II, 

 IX — XL 



Hab. in Jamaica: Hort. Kew.; Guadeloupe in sylvis supra 

 arbores ad Bains Jaunes, Nez Gasse: Duss n. 3814, 3856; Trinidad: 

 Crueger, Bradford, Fendler n. 778. — Costa-Kica, Venezuela, Gniana 

 Brasilia sept. 



