CHEIRADENIA. 
oe —— herbacea, patentia: lateralibus pedi producto columne 
adnati 
rmia. 
LaBELLUM i coined lanum, c. pede columne articulatum ; 
linea mediana elevata, lamella intramarginali digitata, 
Cotumna brevis, semiteres, mutica, pede longo lineari. Stigma 
circulare. 
Pourinta 2, solida, in caudiculam ovalem sessilia ; glanduld ? 
Herba epiphyta, Guayanensis, muscicola, acaulis. Folia mem- 
branacea, nervosa. Pedunculi filiformes, pauciflori, parce vaginati. 
Flores em herbacet. 
Th 
the spurless ie eri other ¢ priets eters seem to refer fm to the Maxillarideous 
—— as well as the stemless bulbs habit. Its station wide seem to 
my pda talum graminewm, which is Sy eh means the plant >a 
called b by Mr. H. G. Reiche eit aad those Warreas which form the 
author’s genus Wareziewiczella. But ned —_ undivided jclnciiidien, 
peculiar lip and habit, are essentially differe 
1. C. cuspidata. 
Wild in Frencu Guayana—Leprieur, 108, and probably 114, 
(v. 8. sp. tn herb. mus. Paris.) 
A stemless bulbless pl rad —. three to four inches high. Leaves a few, 
obovate, membran s, slightly ribbed, sp , drawn to a fine 
rved point. Pedicle filiform, with two or three sprea ding dis- 
ical, 
slender recu 
tant acumi vaginee, flowers at the point. 
Sepals and petals ee acute. “Lip membranous, 0 chorsie, very obscurely 
three-lobed, with an elevated line along the middle, and a thin intramarginal 
lamina, divided into ms equidistant 
ens of — 114, but I — he 
are due for 
upon my specimen 
is the same as 108, which I have examined. y than 
the ‘Administration of the Museum of Natural oe at Pak 
Fes. 21, 1853. 
