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shortly S-Med, roundish: lotes subequal, lateral spreading, middle subtnmcate, 2-calloiis. 

 —Bot. Mag. t. 2980.— 8"-li' high; leaves 5"-24", sterile bracts ]2"'-6"', perigone 6'" 

 long ; bracts upwards gradually shorter.— Hab. Dominica !, Imr. 



69. B. fuscatum, Sw. (£., R). Stem leafy below ; leaves elliptical-ollong or oUong- 

 lanceolabe, recurved-mpiaalate ; flowers greenish or furple-greenish, in a short, compact, 

 long-peduncled raceme : peduncle sheathed, mth compressed-tubular, long, scarious tracts; 

 perigonial divisions blantish, exterior spathulate-obloug, interior spathulate-linear ; Up cor- 



Bancr., Wullschl., March ; Antigua !, Wullschl., Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent !, Ouild., 

 Grenada ; [Cuba! to Guiana]. 



70. E. elongatum, Jacq. Stem leafy about the middle; leaves ohlong-lanceolate, 

 bluntish or blunt ; flowers rosy, in a short, long-peduncled, simple, or fevf-branched raceme : 

 peduncle sheathed with long, tubular, scarious bracts ; perigonial divisions spathulate-lan- 

 ceolate or lanceolate ; lip Z-lobed, puberulous within, 2-tubercled at the base, the middle 

 line crested: lobes denticulate, middle larger, i-fid ; column distinctly 3-dentate at the 

 dilated summit. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 207. — E. secundum, i.— a'-4' high ; leaves 4"-3", 

 raceme l"-3", perigone 6'" long ; bracts small. 



o. Leaves tapering-bluntish. 



j8. erassifolium, Liudl. Leaves fleshy, rounded-blunt. — I see no difference in the lip, but 

 its crest less developed. 



Hab. Antigua I, Nichols, (a), Dominica!, Imr. (a), S. Vincent (|8) ; Trinidad!, Bradf. 

 (i3), abundant near Pitch Lake, terrestrial ; [French islands ! to Venezuela]. 



71. E. Schomburg^kii, lAndl. Stem leafy about the middle ; leaves lanceolate, 

 bluntish ; flowers crimson, in a corymbose, long-peduncled raceme : peduncle sheathed vnth 

 long, tubular, scarious brads ; perigonial divisions elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate ; lip 

 deeply Z-lobed, 2-calIous at the base, the middle Une keeled : lobes dentate at the summit, 

 lateral- ascending, middle longer, cuneate-oblong. — Bot. Beg. 1838. t. 53. — 2'-3' high ; 

 leaves 4"-3", perigone 10"'-8''' long; corymb 3"-4" diam. : bracts lanceolate-linear, inferior 

 6'" long. — Hab. Trinidad I, Bradf., Maraval ; [Guiana to Brazil and Peru]. 



72. E, fulgens, Brongn. (non Focke). Stem leafy above; leaves lanceolate, or 

 oblong-Knear, bluntish ; flowers purplish-rosy, in a short, pednncled, simple, or branched 

 raceme : peduncle distantly sheathed with long, scarious bracts ; perigonial divisions ellip- 

 tical or eUiptioal-oblong, somewhat bluntish ; lip cordate-roundish, fimbriate-dentate, 

 nearly undivided, or with a short termiuEd lobe, 2-callous at the base, the middle line 

 keeled. — Duperrey, Voy. t. 60. — E. Sehomburgkii, var. confluens, lAndl. : but rather a form 

 of M. cinnabarinum, Salzm. (Bot. Keg. 1842. t. 25) with smaller flowers, and the terminal 

 lobe of the lip suppressed. — 14'-2' high; leaves 6"-3", raceme l"-2", perigone 6'" long ; 

 bracts lanceolate-hnear, inferior 6"'-4"'long. — Hab. Trinidad I, Bradf. ; [B. cinnabarinum : 

 Venezuela to Brazil]. 



73. E. eompressum, Gr. (». sp.). Stem few-leayed, compressed; leaves lanceolate- 

 oblong, pointed; flowers red,in a loose, racemiform panicle : peduncle distantly sheathed 

 w;</i scarious, oblong, pointed bracts; perigonial divisions pointed, exterior lanceolate, or 

 half-ovate-lanoeolate, interior linear ; Up concave, shortly %-fld : lateral lobes deltoid-ovate, 

 small, middle a little longer, recurved, linear-sub-Z-gonal ; column small. — Habit of E. dif- 



fusum, Sw,; li'-2' high; leaves about 3, alternate, much exceeded by the peduncled 

 panicle, 3"-4" long, spreading from a keeled-complicated sheath ; sterile bracts 6"'-10"' 

 long, superior decresdent ; perigone, 3'" long.— Hab. Trinidad !, Bradf. 



** Stem leafy to the inflorescence: sterile bracts none, or a few conform to the 

 fertile ones. 



74. E. patens, Sw. sec. Lindl. {R). Stems leafy above ; leaves oblong -lanceolate, 

 pointed; flowers greenish-yellow, in a nodding raceme: bracts small, deltoid; perigonial 

 divisions spathulate-oblong ; lip equally 5-lobed, 2-tubercled at the base: lobes blunt, 

 middle Z-lobed -Bot. Mag. t. 3800.— From the description of B. patens, Sw. (" flores pa- 

 niculati ■ bractes Uneari-lanceolatEe") neither his synonym is clear, nor does onr species 



