636 OECHIDEiE. 



linear, acuminate, with a bluniish point ; flowers glomerate, " white ;" petigonial divisions 

 erect-spreading, o^ate, blunt ; lip ovate, blunt, oisoletely %-loled : blade abruptly clawed, 

 longer than the continuous claw ; basilar callus transverse, not produced to the margin. — 

 Cymbidium, Sw. {sec. 0. Rchb., who compared Swartz's original). Camaridium imbricatum, 

 lAndl. in Herb. Hook. 0. parviflorum; G. Rchb. I — Stout, woody ; scales appressed-sheath- 

 ing, ovate, pointed, 4"'-6"' long, gradually enlarged towards the tubers, the latter 1"-14" 

 long ; leaves 6"-8" long, 10"'-12''' broad ; flowers in dense clusters near the summit of.the 

 branches; perigone 3"'-3"' long, not exceeding the lanceolate-acuminate bract. — Hab. Ja- 

 maica!, Fd., Wulhehl., on rocks above Radnor, on old trees, Manchester; [Venezuela!]. 



125. O. confertnm, Gr. Tubers elliptical,oblong, , compressed ; leaves linear-acumi- 

 nate ; flowers glomerate, white- and purple-variegated ; perigonial.divisions erect-spreading, 

 bluotish, exterior ovate, interior oblong; lip deltoid, bluntish: blade contracted into the 

 jointed claw, as long as it : basilar callus transverse, excurrent to the margin. — Cama^ 

 ridium vestitum, Lindl. ! (PI. Wright^. — A few inches-1' high ; scales appressed, ovate, 

 pointed, 4'" long, except the large ones around the tubers ; tubers 8"'-13"' leaves 3"-5" long, 

 the latter chartaceons-flat, 3"'-5'" broad ; flowers in dense, distant clusters : perigone 3'" long, 

 little exserted from the bract. — Hab. Triijjdad !j Bradf., not uncommon ; [Cuba !}. 



** Flowers fascicled,- long-pedicellate. 

 136. O. cQccvaeoxa, Salisb. (JS.). Stem low, sheathed with distichons scales below: 

 tubers oval or roundish, compressed ; leaves approximate, linear-lanceolate, blunt, obliquely 

 emargiuate; flowers crimson, long-pedicellate, fascicled, nodding; perigonial divisions 

 spreading, ovate-lanceolate, pointed ; lip undivided, ovate-oblong, bluntish, contracted above 

 the broadly obovate, concave, continuous base. — Jaeq. Amer. Pict. t. 305. — Hipidendrum, 

 Jaeq. Cymbidium, Sw. — Leaves 6"-13" long, 8"'-10'," broad ; perigone 4'" long. — Hab. 

 ■Tamaica (iSW.) j Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild. ; [French islands !]. 



29. MAXILLAEIA, R. P. 



ijp jointed with the produced, claw-like base of the column; cucullate: perigonial divi- 

 sions exterior lateral adhering to the column at their oblique base. Column narrow, ascend- 

 ing : pollinaria 4, incumbent or two posterior adhering to the anterior ones ; caudicula 

 short : gland semilunar. — Stem elongated or reduced, usually with aerial tubers. 



Sect. 1. EUMAXILLAMA, Lindl. — Flowers single, axillary. — Stem scaly and leafy; leaves 

 chartaceous or leathery, not plaited. 



127. IW. alba, Lindl. I Stem compressed, leafy at the summit : scales distichous-im- 

 bricate, pointed : feierj oval-oblong, compressed, X-leaved; leaves oblong-linear, compli- 

 cate-keeled, bluntish, leathery-chartaceons ; flowers white, exserted ; perigonial divisions ob- 

 lougrlanceolate, acuminate with a bluntish point, spreading-erect, striate ; lip obsoletely 3- 

 lobed : middle lobe ovate, bluntish : callus single, longitudinal.— Leaves 9"-18" long, 8'"- 

 10'" broad; perigone 10"'-8"' long. — Hab. Jamaica!, March ; Trinidad!, Bradf., uncom- 

 mon on trees ; [Cuba 1 to Guiana]. 



128. M. crassifolia, G. Rchb. (L.) Stem reiucei, few-scaly ; fei«'« few or wanting, 

 1-leaved ; leaves rosulate, oblong-linear, bluntish, leathery, keeled, complicate towards the 

 base only ; flowers " yellow," exserted ; perigonial divisions oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 with a bluntish point, erect, striate; lip obsoletely %-lobed: middle lobe ovate-ohlong, 

 blunt : callus siogle. — Bot. Reg. t. 1 028. — Heterotaxis, Imdl. Dicrypta Baueri, Imdl. — 

 Longest leaves 1^' long, 9"'-10"' broad ; perigone 6"'-8"' long. — Hab. Jamaica !, WNab ; 

 [Cuba I to Venezuela]. 



129. KI. (?) inflexa, Gr. " Stem elongated, somewhat branched : tubers ^-leaved; 

 leaves unequal, leathery, ollong, channelled at the base ; flowers single ; perigonial divisions 

 ovate, pointed; lip %-lobed: lateral lobes falcate-inflexed, middle roundish, tnhercled at the 

 base." — Camaridium, Idndl. (Ami. Nat. Hist. 5. 116). — "Leaves about 2" long." — Hab. 

 Dominica (iMidl.), 



Sect. 3. XifiOBiUM, Lindl. — Inflorescence radical. — Stem reduced : leaves plaited. 



130. M. rufescens, Idndl. ! Scape 1-flowered, few-sheathed, as long as the 1-leaved, 



