SPATHIUM. (nrrcarx) ( 55 ) EPIDENDRUM. 
rotundatis sinu obtuso disjunctis 4 lobo medio abbreviato cuneato 
sans bilobulato, callis 2 maximis lineé longa elevata interjecta. 
Wild in Venezveta ; at Chachopo in the province of ear 
at the height of 9000 feet—Funck and Schlim, 852, (v. 
) 
Stem a foot and more high, clothed with long obtuse leaves, Spathes 
pers coll in a cluster at the foot of the raceme, which is eight 
and almost parallel with the Print down which it hangs. Flowers 
voaoniee wie white lip. 
* 172. E. Harrisonie. Hooker, in Bot. Mag., t. 3209. 
E. caule folioso tereti, foliis elongato-oblongis obtusis cum 
mucrone, pedunculo flexuoso elongato spathis pluribus acuminatis 
vestito, racemi 7—8-flori abbreviati nutantis axi pedunculo multd 
breviore, bracteis squameformibus acutis, sepalis petalisque — 
oblongis coriaceis obtusis his pauld angustioribus, labelli carnosi 
tripartiti cordati basi bituberculati laciniis lateralibus oblongis 
truncatis intermediA cuneat& apiculo reflexo. 
E. aeridiforme. Booth, in Bot. Reg. 1845, mise. no. 12. 
Wild in Brazti; on wee) in the Organ Mountains ; April— 
Gardner, 5868, (v. HNL es Cnc 2 
— Page in habit and mode of growth bears e resemblance to 
E. nutans. Flowers green, amas: ional with reddish 1 brown, 
§ 10. Pepe teas Lindley, in Hooker’s Journal of lg 
81; Bot a a 1844, mise. 24. Amphiglottis, Salisbury 
‘e Hore Trans., 
< character of cae eres pigr oh a in a long leafy stem 
with distichous leaves, an absence of any te ency to form pseudobulbs, a 
peduncle suddenly at with pon ose sheaths, pone a tip wholly united to “oo 
column. They join the last section of Spathian pide ms through £. Hi 
risonie, which section consists of Ataphighotts in all ea except that 
the bracts are spathaceous and herbaceous, or fuliaceous 
ANALYSIS OF THE SECTIONs. 
Flores veré paniculati . ; A. POLYCLADIA. 
Flores racemosi aid in in_paniculam race- 
mosam tes). 
Labellum seidiclatsan Soe ie ew! ea ee BOLOOHILA. 
—— lobatum. 
laciniis omnibus integris . C. SCHISTOCHILA INTEGRA. 
laciniis laceris. 
lobo medio lamellato. D. SCHISTOCHILA CARINATA. 
lobo medio = basi 
bicalloso : E. SCHISTOCHILA TUBERCU- 
LATA. 
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