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{SOCHILUS cramrnowweEs. 
Grass-like Isochilus. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nart. Orv. ORCHIDE. 
Gen. Car. —Labellum petali a distinctis ath, 1 e Masse 
pollinis 4, parallele.—Br. 
Isochilus graminoides ; petalis ovato-acuminati sconcavis, labello fla- 
belliformi, pedicellis solitariis, capsulis glabris, caule compresso, fo- 
liis distichis lineari-lanceolatis. 
Epidendrum graminoides, Sw. Prodr. p. 1 
Cymbidium graminoides, Sw. Fl. Ind. ees 6: 1459.—Wiiip. Sp. Pl. v. iv. 
p- 96. 
Parasitic. Root of several waved, fleshy, simple fibres. Stem 4~5 inches 
long, simple, compressed, clothed with the sheathing bases of the leaves. 
Leaves distichous, rather closely placed, linear-lanceolate, single-nerved, 
acute, sheathing at the base; the sheaths compressed, equitant. 
Flowers solitary from the axils of the leaves, upon curved, slender, brac« 
teated pedicels, bractee sheathing. Flowers inclined. Petals distinct, 
nearly equal in size, subconnivent, ovate, concave, shortly acuminate, 
3-nerved, greenish-white. Labellum about equal in length with the pe- 
tals, concave, curved upwards towards the column, subunguiculate, fia- 
belliform, yellowish-green, obscurely veined. Germen subovate, striated, 
concealed by the upper sheathing bractez. Column short. The an- 
thers 1 have not seen. 
If, as I have reason to believe from the description, this 
is the plant that Swartz has called Cymbidium gramt- 
noides, it is an inhabitant of trees in the mountainous parts 
of Jamaica. My friend C. S. Parxer, Esq. found it in simi- 
lar situations in the Island of Trinidad ; pines neem mons 
cimens, preserved in spirits, that I have made the accomp: 
ing figure. 
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