IONOPSIS. 
Humb. Bonpl. Kunth, a Shige et Sp. I. 348. £O., p. 193.——Iantha, 
r, Exot. Fl., t. 113. 
Srepaua erecta, equalia, membranacea ; lateralibus in saccum 
connatis. 
Perata sepalis conformia. 
LaBeLLUM membranaceum, sepalis longius, columna paral- 
lelum, limbo reflexo ; basi an ustatum, auriculis 2 membranaceis 
intra marginem callisque 2 carnosis intra auriculas 
OLUMNA erecta, nana, aptera, semiteres, rostello rostrato. 
PoLirnta 2, cereacea, spheerica, posticé excavata; caudiculd 
lineari ; tandndd obovata. Anthera unilocularis, rostrata. 
Herbee epiphyte, Americe tropice, acaules. Folia coriacea. 
Flores im racemis aut paniculis terminalibus dispositi, albi aut 
violace?, 
Short erect sepals of which the lateral form a small bag, a long lip 
refiexed at the upper half, and furnished at the base with four pr 
which two are thin membranous auricles within the edge of the. lip, and 
appears at first sight to be the case ; but in reali the base of the lip adheres 
only to the econ of > merc and the sac is formed entirely by the union of 
the of the 
1. I. testiculata. ZO., p. 193 
I. foliis tereti-subulatis, pie acutis basi connatis, petalis 
longioribus obtusis apice patentibus, labello ovato-acuminato, 
sacco didymo-ventricoso. 
Epidendrum Satyrioides. Swartz, Prodr., 
comes. Swart, Fl. neo: Oce- p. 1533. 
Wild in the Wzst Inpres, occasionally ; on the mountains of 
St. Domingo and ae on the Crescentia—Swartz. 
spring, 7 vadh, with the iagueenst ole Land oot with crimson, . 
Oct. 1, 1852. 
