ERYCINA. 
Serata subherbacea, ries patentia, lateralibus basi 
connatis. 
‘ALA omnind conformia. 
ABELLUM maximum, petaloideum, tripartitum, circa col 
basin adnatum; laciniis squalibus, auricula carnosi inter 
columnam sinumque utrumque; basi appendice bilingui auctum. 
OLUMNA nana, semiteres, tine carnoso (staminodiis) utrin- 
que ; rostello elongato oe 
Pottr1a 2, subrotunda, oes excavata : caudiculd \ineari 
subulata ; glanduld ovali. Anthera membranacea, unilocularis, 
longé ros trata 
erba epiphyta, Americe tropice, ebulbis. Folia pauca, 
nititiatia, teebika, coriacea, acuta. Panicula terminalis, racemosa; 
bracteis squarrosis, amplexicaulibus. Ovaria ramentaceo-echinata. 
Excellent specimens of this extremely rare plant, with which I have been 
favoured by M. Galeotti, show, what has long been Baar air that it is not an 
Oncidi ich ge it is se d 
fro 
within the edge of the lip, and a asimilar, but smaller, ear is produce sh hee 
= above ie rae sinus of the lip. The enxiogy of of these intermedia 
1, Erycina echinata. 
a orensmsame H. B. B., Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1. 345,t.79. LO, 
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@ scape ie 
1 di nts The lobes lobes of the Jj i, wae 
Hetly nm nplexicath wt ering ante points ccsta’ Pha weds Dhak tans 
pepe Tonopeis. 
Jan. 6, 1653 
