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roundish ;" capsule ovoid-globose, muricate-pilose -. ita pedicel little exceeded by the leaf. — 

 Cymbidium, Sw>. D. squarrosa, Lindl. in PI. Wright. — Radicant, pendulous ; leaves 4'"- 

 6"' long, f" broad ; flowers 1 V" long.— Hab. Jamaica {Sw) ; [Cuba 1]. 



119. D. graminea, Gr. Leaves linear-lanceolate, pointed, spreading ; lip sagittate- 

 roundish ; capsule ovoid, glabrous, smooth : its pedicel about half as long as the leaf. — Sw. 

 Adnot. 1. 1./. 1. — D. graminoides, Lindl. ! (Cymbidium, Sw., laochilus. Hook. .'). — -Diffuse, 

 ascending, low, 4"-6" high ; leaves 6"'-12"' long, 2"' broad ; flowers 2"'-3"' long, " whitish." 

 — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., on trees, Mooree's Gap ; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad !, Cr., 

 Bradf., common on mossy branches, in cool, damp woods ; [Guiana !]. 



120. D. glauca, Lindl. ! Leaves limear-oblong, mucronate-blunt, glaucous beneath ; 

 lip sagittate-reniform, broadly clawed, exceeded by the perigone ; capsule elliptical-oblong, <2, 

 glabrous, smooth, 3-gonal, much exceeded by the leaves. — Stouter than all the preceding r' 

 species, l'-2' high, erect, simple ; leaves li"-2" long, 4"'-6"' broad ; flowers 6'" long, 

 whitish. — Hab. Jamaica I, Macf., on trees, in the upper region of the Blue Mountains ; 

 [Cuba!; Mexico I]. 



27. AEEANTUES, Undl. 



Lip jointed with the base of the columu,"Spurred : perigouial divisions distinct. Column 

 short : poUinaria % : caudiculse aa many, distinct. — Leafy or aphyllous epiphytes : no tubers ; 

 inflorescence axillary or on radical scapes. 



121. A. micrantha, G. Rchb. I Stem leafy, pendulous-radicant ; leaves distichous, 

 ollong, blunt, obliquely emarginate, exceeding the axillary, sessile, many-flowered spikes : 

 flowers one-sided, white ; perigonial divisions oblong-lanceolate, bluntish, spreading at the 

 summit ; l^ conform, except at the cucullate, subulate base, channelled, little longer than 

 the cv/rved, thickishj bluntly clavate spur. — Bot. Reg. i. 1772. — Augrsecum, Lindl. — G. 

 Bchb. (in lit.) distinguishes the Jamaica form (A. jamaicensis, ej.) by the leaves, thicker 

 and devoid of transverse veinlets, and other characters, which from our materials do not 

 prove constaut. Stem a few inches to several feet long ; leaves at length leathery, 1 V'-3" 

 long, sheathing, about 8'" distant from each other ; spikes single or fascicled, 1" long, re- 

 curved ; perigone 2'" long. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., M'Nab, on trees ; Trinidad !, Bradf., 

 very common, in dry, open places ; [Venezuela I, Guiana 1 ; Sierra Leone SJAndl)']. 



122. A. filiformis, Qr. Stemless, aphyllous ; peduncles radical, fascicled, short; spike 

 loose, many (-few) -flowered: flowers small, "yellow;" perigonial divisions ovate-lanceolate, 

 pointed ; lip conform, as long as or little longer than the broadly clavate, thickish, at 

 length reflexed-ascending spur. — Sw. Jdnot. t. 1. /. 2. — Limodorum, Sw. AngrEecum, 

 landl. — Stem reduced to a scaly knob at the origin of the shortly peduncled spikes, the latter 

 1V'~3" long, their axis slender, somewhat pnberulous . aerial roots fascicled, much longer 

 than the bundle of spikes ; flowers distichous, about 1'" distant from each other : perigone 

 1'" long or less.^HA,B. Jamaica !, M'Nab, Pd., Wils., on calabash- and logwood-trees ; 

 Trinidad!, Bradf, on calabash-trees, rare ; [Haiti ; New Granada I]. 



123. A. funalis, G.Rckb.! Aphyllous: aerial roots stout, fascicled ; scojoej distantly 

 ^e&iheA, few-flowered : flowers large, pedicellate, greenish-white; perigonial divisions ob- 

 long-lanceolate, spreading ; lip diform,, roundish above the contracted base, 2-lobed, with 

 rounded, spreading lobes, about half as long as the subulate-filiform, straight-descending 

 spur. — Bot. Mag. t. 4295. — ^Limodorum, Sw. Angrsecum, Lindl. (Eoeoclades, Lindl. 

 — Eoots often several feet, scape l"-4", perigone 6'" long ; lip 8'" broad, white— Hab. 

 Jamaica !, Pd., Wils., M'Nab, on trees. 



28. ORNITHIDIUM, Salisb. 



Li/p ascending, cucuUate, continuous (rarely jointed) with the base of the column : perigo- 

 nial divisions erect-spreading. Column naked, antrorsely gibbons : poUinaria 4, caudiculae 

 oblong or linear, gland minute. — Stem ascending or radicant, branched, sheathed by imbri- 

 cate-distichous scales, distantly leaved: aerial tubers \-phyllous; flowers axillary. 



* Flowers glomerate. 



124. O. vestitum, G.Rchb.! Tubers oblong, truncate, compressed; leaves 



