_~EPIDENDRUM. 2) EPICLADIUM. 
beyond what are mentioned in the ig bare table, those points will be 
adverted to at the head of each sub-genu 
ANALYSIS OF THE SUB-GENERA. 
Labellum feré liberum. = 
Floresé spatha . . . . . . .§ 1. Epictapium. 
Flores nudi. 
Caulis ames eo oro §: 2 ENovetum: 
fusi oe a © 6. SACHIUM, 
Labellum adn ma 
Caulis poeuticebcuti 
Flores sessil § 4. HoRmipium. 
racemosi V. “paniculati. 
Inflorescentia radicalis . .§ 5. PsiLANTHEMUM. 
———————. terminalis. 
Labellum fissum . . . . § 6. AULIZEUM. 
——— indivisum § 7. OSMOPHYTUM. 
Caulis repens, squamatus . .§ 8. LANium 
foliosus strictus 
Inflorescentia terminalis 
Spatha 1, magna - + §_ 9. SPATHIUM. 
Spathze — imbricatee . § 10. AMPHIGLOTTIUM. 
§ 11. EUEPIDENDRUM. 
EGceenoentis lateralis - « § 12. PLEURANTHIUM. 
§ 1. Epictapium. Lindley, in Hooker’s Journal, IIT. 81. 
In pone section _ ‘oC apes - the flower is ee that of Encyclium, but 
the flowers grow out of a great spathe, as n Spathium, and the pseudo- 
bulbs an evidently ones = condition ‘of an ordinary stem. In £. 
segment the calli or linear plates so common in the genus are repl 
by three raised tion the o a ong cuniculus, and the fiowers 
have the regularity of the Revue Isochil 
E. tiacum. Bateman, in Bot. Reg. 1838, mise. 
il; ee Mex. and Guat., t. 12. 
"R. foliis oblongis planiusculis coriaceis caule clavato — 
dupld brevioribus, soak maxima cucullaté pedunculo longiore, 
—— ante subcernuo _densifloro, _Sepalis petalisque lanccoatis 
rate ai pe och elevatis. - 
Wild in Mexico, Sierra St. Pedro Nolaseo—J 879 ; 
GUATEMALA, on rocks on the precipitous brows of 
ravines, where itis subject to t extremes of Sect and sald 
a onthe Linge seid distic. Grise 
? 
B. 25; Oaxaca, at St. Juan de Nepomuceno—Karwinski in 
herb . Martius, a. - ve cult.) 
