ABOLA. 
SepaLa subcoriacea, patentia; lateralibus connatis, labello 
suppositis. 
PETaLa meg teaein conformia. 
m liberum, sessile, columnam amplectens, basi dila- 
tatum, = ae membranaceum ; callo 3-plici carnoso. 
Couumna nana, membranaceo-marginata ; 3 clinandrio margi- 
nato. 
Portrta 2, oblonga ; gece brevi, tenui; glanduld 
minuta, Anthera subrotun a, e : 
Herba epiphyta, Americe ropa ebulbis, acaulis. Folia 
aes coriacea. Flores parvi, racemosi; pedunculo radicali. 
curious yea = poe be regarded as an woos of Oncidium and 
Gieuegumen: from both which, as well as their allies Brassia and Miltonia, 
it is —— = an a — delicate egraza, minute ci 
gnee. and solid pollen-masses. The column too forces down the sessile lip by 
ts thin projecting edges, which eee: os upon the lip pe partially surround 
ie calli. 
1. A. radiata. 
Wild in New Grenapa; in the province of ghia at the 
height of 9500 feet; Schlim, 111, (v. s. sp. cel. 
Linden.) 
The whole plant about five inches high. Leaves coriaceous, channelled, 
perfect 
sessile, the uppermost not half the length of the raceme and t, the next 
perfect, the remainder merely ¢ gi scales, from ong which 
rises the scape, consisting of = or Bar small distant flowers seated on a 
flexuose rachis, with short cucul iated acute bracts. se seem 
to siriedea 3 the at . orga ply at the poin e 
posses mrs ip cir e base, then contracted into a linear 
retuse upper half. Pi the triple gets ae middle is erect, the 
sides smaller 
and ae tei (* Flowers brown with yellow rays. Column and lip white.” 
—Schlim.) 
Fes. 19, 1853. 
