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Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., WiillscAl., on trees; Dominical, Imr. (o, |8), S. Vincent!, Guild.; 

 Trinidad ; [Cuba ! to Brazil]. 



81. E. nocturiraia, L. (L.). Stem leafy; leaves oilonp, or oval, hiuvA: flowers 

 tehitish, or greenish-yellow, geminate-solitary : bracts ovate-lanceolate, much exceeded by 

 the long pedicel ; perigonial divisions large, linear-acuminate ; lip Z-fid : lateral loies 

 ovate-oblong, as long as the denticulate column, middle longer, setaceous-linear. — Jacq. 

 Amer. Pict. t. 210. Catesb. Carol. 2. t. 68.— 1'-2' high ; leaves 5»-2", perigone 2i"-lV' 

 long. — Hab. Bahamas {Caiesb.) ; Jamaica I, Maqf., March. ; Dominica !, Mr., S. Vincent !, 

 Guild. ; Trinidad !, ft-., Bradf. ; [Cuba ! to Guiana ! and Peru]. 



82. E, diffusum, Sw. (£., i?.). Stem leafy; leaves ovate-oblong, or oblong, rounded- 

 bluntish; flowers ^^greenish-white" in a loose panicle : bracts minute; perigonial divisions 

 exterior lanceolate, interior linear ; lip undivided, cordate-ovate, pointed, 3-crested, callous 

 at the base. — Bot. Mag. t. 3565.— 8''-l-i' high : panicle nearly as broad; leaves lV'-3", 

 perigone 4'" long, red in drying. — Hab. Jamaica I, all coU., on trees ; [Mexico I to 

 Guiana!]. 



83. E. verrucosam, Sw. {R.). Stem leafy; leaves oblong-laneeolate, or lanceolate : 

 sheaths subcyHndrical, warty : flowers greenish-yellow, in a large, spreading panicle : 

 bracts subulate, small ; perigonial divisions exterior elliptical-lanceolate, interior spathulate- 

 linear ; lip S-fid: lateral lobes oblong-linear, spreading, denticulate at the blunt summit, 

 middle 1-lobed .- disk 3-crested, middle crest narrower. — 1^-4' high : leaves 6"-4", peri- 

 gone 4"'-3"' long. — Hab. Jamaica !, all coll., on trees. 



84. E. vmceutinum, ZsW^. .' Stem low, leafy ; leaves lanceolate -linear, acuminate: 

 sheaths compressed ; |;?oioe™ miB«<e, in a narrow, few-flowered panicle; bracts subulate, 

 small, exceeded by the filiform pedicel ; perigonial divisions exterior lanceolate, interior 

 linear; lip undivided, cordate-roundish, uudulate-crispate. — 3"-4" high; leaves 1", peri- 

 gone 1"' long. — Hab. S. Vincent!, Guild. 



§ 4. Lip free, or nearly free from the column ; stem equal at the base : leaves alternate; 

 inflorescence terminal. 



85. E. stbenopetalum, Sook. (^.). Stem few-leaved above, sulcate ; leaves linear, 

 or lanceolate-linear, emarginate-blunt ; flowers rosy, in a few-flowered, subsessile corymb : 

 bracts scarious, smdl, ovate, pointed, sterile few, approximate, gradually larger ; perigonial 

 divisions pointed, exterior oblong-lanceolate, interior broader, elliptical-oblong ; lip undi- 

 vided, obovate, entire, transversely crested at the contracted, pale base ; column dentate at 

 the summit. — Bot. Mag. I. 3410 : I have added the letter h to the specific name, on ac- 

 count of the broad petals. — Oncidium emarginatum, Mey. Esseq. I — i'-2' high ; leaves 

 3"-4",, perigone 6'" long.-^HAB. Jamaica {HooJc); Trinidad !, .Bra<^., common on dying 

 trees; [Honduras to Guiana!]. 



86. E. teretifolium. Sic. (B.). Stem leafy, simple, \-flowered ; leaves linear, trique- 

 trous-subcylindrical, fleshy, blunt ; _ flower yellowish-green : bracts 2, membranaceons, ovate- 

 late ; perigonial divisions " exterior lanceolate, pointed, interior elliptical, half as long ; Zip- 

 undivided, striate, thickenedr-Z-quetrous at the summit." — Cymbidium, Sw. Isochilus, 

 Lindl. — I'-l \' high ; leaves 14"-2", bracts 4"'-6"' long, the latter keeled. — Hab. Jamaica !, 

 March, on trees, in high mountains^ [Cuba]. 



87. E. globosum, J«cy. (K.). Stem leafy, ivarple, few-flowered; leaves linear, chan- 

 nelle'd-subcylindrical, bluntish ; flowers yellowish, reddish-variegated, in asessile, contracted 

 umbel : bracts small, membranaceous, ovate, blunt ; perigonial divisions ovate, interior 

 smaller • " lip undivided, ovate, pointed, concave." — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 203.— Cymbi- 

 dium, &>. Isochilus, Lindl. !-%"-&' high, caespitose; leaves 8"'-10"', bracts l"'long; 

 flowers small.— Hab. Jamaica !, Macf, Pd., Wullschl., on trees ; Dommica!, Imr., S. Vin- 

 cent ; [Cuba ! to Krench islands !]. 



10. BROIJGHTONIA, R. Br. 



Character of Epidendrum, but lip produced into an adnate-decurrent, linear spur.— Scape 

 terminal from an aerial tuber; flowers cnmson, racemose. 



