EPHDENDRUM. 
Linneeus. Swartz, Nov. Act. Ups., VI. p. 66, t. 5. f. 2. Brown, in Hort 
Kew. ed. 2, V. 217. LO., p. 96. Lindley, in Hooker's Journal, UL 81. 
er, patentia, subscqualia, lateralibus basi hand productis. 
‘ALA nunc conformia et zequalia, nunc diversissima. 
fare unguiculatum, cum columna parallelum et omnind 
arte connatum: limbo integro v. diviso, basi sepits callo 
duplici, costa v. tuberculo nunc interjectis, instructo ; nunc 
verosimiliter in calcar productum pedicello immersum ideoque 
column cuniculum formans. 
Cotvmna elongata: clinandrio ei ae sepe fimbriato, 
semiteres, ecornis, basi seepitis cunic 
OLLINIA 4, cereacea, sequalia, aaron ; caudiculis totidem 
replicatis; glanduld hbera nullé. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. 
Herbve epiphyte Americe pee nune terrestres.  Caulis 
nune pseudobalbosus nune elongatus foliosus. — a 
issime venis elevatis striata. Flores solitarit, spicati, racemosi, 
congmabee v. paniculati, terminales v. laterales, peat siecati 
coriacet, raphidibus farett, 
In this extensive genus, there exist such very remarkable differences i in the 
manner of growth,as would almost — gr gees tion 
genera for their reception. The three or aVindoua's in the rie classifi- 
cation have, for instance, a pseu gris oO v2 
from the column n instead of being adherent to it ; but on the other han d, four 
other d h combined with an aitheerdet tip, 
and among ag Osmo: opt hytes and Eneyelian species, , the lip oo to 
column in different degrees ; so that such distinctions fail w en applied “5 
rac ls 
f purposes so 
thing in the peculiar aspect et of the oan _— usually points it out 
unadvisable, 
The sega bang amy of the genus resides in the lip being more or less 
united by a fleshy base to the edges of a column, which i __ ves and 
: vic HiLus, of whieh H 
to which the ile senbaicgt adhere “eo viene whole ra Pome is an van inochi 
with the mentum of a Maxillaria; Dinema is remarkable for its two-horned 
mn, &¢., go pair of caudicles; Barxerta, so like Amphiglottium in 
has a petaloid column ; Puysinea has a scrotiform free spur, &e. ; 
Broveutonia diffe having an ex te spur, and a | 
cucullate lip. As to Atamania, the transverse appendage of its lip, and some 
pew e! of habit, are all that it ean be said to have for its 
the reasons above given, {do not thinkit expedient to regard the following 
aivi ne opt ——- more than sub-genera ; they distinctions 
Jan. 10, 1853. 
