PLANT AE AMERIC ANAE. 395 



fos. Capfula oblonga, pentagona, turbi- 

 nate obtufa, quinquelocularis, quinque- 

 valvis, ad angulos dehifcens, diffepimentis 

 ad Columnam cohaerentibus quinque. Se- 

 wina plura, fubrotunda, lana tenuiflima 

 fat copiofa, fubfufca, pallida. Valvulae 

 apertae, paten tiflimae, ftelliformes et pla- 

 nae. Calyx in frudt.um bafi excipit capfu- 

 lam irategerrimam, lineae longitudine. 

 XX. 181. EPIDENDRUM acaule, radice bul- 

 bofo-ovata ; floribus cinereo fufcis etc. 



Radix fubbulbofa vel caulis ovatus, leviter 

 rngofus, emittens radicular repentes fuper 

 ramos, more congenerum. 



Caulis brevis vel fere nullus, bafi ovatus. 



Folia duo, oblonga, dorfo carinata. 



Scapus ere6tus, dodrantalis, pedal is, teres. 



Flores 3 r 4, terminates, alterni. 

 XXVI, 182. HERMESIAS a me didhim, 

 vulgo Pvofa de monte. (BROWNAEA coc- 

 cinea.) 



Flores fefliles, capitati : capitula ante explica- 

 tionem ob bracleas conum pini led mollem 

 refernnt, juxta bafin ipfius folii adnata, 

 fubrotunda, poll explicationem fafciculata, 

 ajterna, fefTilia. Brqfteae alternae, colora- 

 fae, convexae, oblongae, exteriores infe- 

 rius fubrotundae, concavae, membranaceae, 

 ptjtufae, laxiufculae, fingulae includunt 



fin- 



