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CYRTOPODIUM PUNCTATUM uuinpt. 
THE SPOTTED CYRTOPODIUM. 
CYRTOPODIUM. Sepala libera, patentia, subaequalia, lateralia pedi columnae brevissime adnata. Petala 
sepalis similia v. paullo latiora brevioraque. Labellum pedi columnae affixum; lobi laterales latiusculi, erecti v. demum 
patentes, medius rotundatus, patens, integer, bilobus v. crispo-dentatus. Columna erecta, basi in pedem brevissime 
producta, semiteres, angulis acutis; clinandrium obliquum, integrum. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, 
interdum stipitata, convexa v. dorso gibbosa, imperfecte bilocularis. Pollinia 2 v. 4, per paria plus minus connata, 
late ovoidea v. globosa, cerea, in anthera inappendiculata, anthera dehiscente glandulae rostelli latae fere membranaceae 
v. in stipitem brevem crassum productae affixa. 
Herbae terrestres, rhizomate in pseudobulbos fusiformes incrassato. Folia longa, plicato-venosa, in petiolum 
contracta. Scapi erecti, elati, aphylli, plurivaginati. Racemus simplex v. ramosus, floribus mediocribus v. speciosis 
breviter pedicellatis. Bracteae ovato-oblongae v. lanceolatae, interdum coloratae. 
Species circa 8, Americae tropicae latissime dispersae. 
Cyrtopodium R. BR. in Air. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, V (1813), p. 216. — BENTH. et Hook. F. Gen. Plant., Il, 
p- 541, pro parte. 
Cyrtopodium punctatum. Pseudobulbi fusiformi-elongati, elati, 2-3 ped. alti. Folia lineari-lanceolata, acuminata. 
Scapus 2-3 ped. altus, supra medium paniculatus. Bracteae membranaceae, coloratae, magnae. Sepala patentia, lanceolato- 
oblonga, acuta, undulata. Petala obovata v. obovato-oblonga, obtusa, undulata. Labellum stipitatum, profunde 
trilobum, lobis lateralibus cuneato-obovatis incurvis, intermedio semicirculari v. transverse oblongo margine granuloso, 
disco basi calloso. Columna clavata, brevis. 
Cyrtopodium punctatum LINDL. Gen. et Sp. Orch. (1833), p. 188. — Ip., Sert. Orch., t. 12. — Bot. Mag., 
t. 3507. — Fl. des Serres, t. 2352. — Reus. F. in WaLp. Ann., VI, p. 666. — Warn. et WILL. Orchid Album, V, 
t. 202. — Orchidophile, 1885, p. 270, cum. ic. 
Epidendrum punctatum L. Sp. Pl., ed. 2 (1762), p. 1349. 
Cyrtopodium Saintlegerianum RcuB. F. in Gard. Chron., 1885, pt. I, p. 756. — Ip., 1888, pt. II, pp. 180, 
181, fig. 20. 
he noble species here figured was one of the earliest known tropical 
Orchids, as it was included by Linnaeus in his genus Epidendrum 
in 1762, and flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden as long ago as 
the spring of 1835. This particular plant was sent from Brazil some years 
previously by Swanson, but for a considerable time showed no disposition 
to bloom. 
Cyrtopodium punctatum is very widely diffused in tropical America, having 
been found in Brazil (where it is very common), Guiana, New Granada, the 
West Indies, Mexico and Central America, and lastly in Paraguay. In the latter 
locality it was discovered by the French traveller Mr. Saint Lecer (who also 
discovered Oncidium ‘onesianum), and when sent home was described as a new 
species under the name of C. Saintlegerianum Reus. r., though there is no 
character to separate it from the old C. punctatum, and it cannot be main- 
tained even as a variety. The species when well grown is a majestic plant, 
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