612 ORCHIDE/E. 



5. MASDEVALLIA, R. P. 



Lip joktcd with the column, included : perigonial divisions exterior cohering and forming 

 an infundibidar tube, acuminate or awned at the summit, interior small. - Column naked : 

 pollinaria 2, obovate-oblong. — Stem l-leaved, as in Pleurothallis ; flowers usually large, 

 single at the base of the leaf. 



37. M. fenestrata, Lindl. ! Leaf elliptical-oblong, bluntish, cuneate at the petioled 

 base, about as long as the ventricose-sheathed stem ; peduncle about as long as the petiole ; 

 perigone deep-purple : tube campanulate, gibbous at the base, as long as the pointed lobes, 

 the latter cohering at the point ; "interior divisions ovate, pointed; lip oblong, acuminate, 

 with small lateral lobes about the middle." — Bot. Mag. t. 4164. — Pleurothallis atropur- 

 purea, Lindl. !— Leaf 2"-2V long, 1" broad; flower 6'" long.— Hab. Jamaica !, Marc h ; 

 [Cuba !]. 



6. MICROSTYLIS, Nult. 



Lip spreading from the column •. perigonial divisions distiuct, spreading. Column low ; 

 pollinnria 4, collateral. — Root terrestrial; stem terminal from an aerial tuber "Rower small, 

 racemose, or corymbose. 



38. M. umbellulata, Lindl. ! Stem 2-leaved, 5-angular, or subcylindrical ; leaves 

 opposite, long-sheathing, ovate, pointed ; flowers greenish, approximate in a fastigiate 

 corymb, or short raceme : pedicels at length much longer than the flower : bract lanceolate- 

 acuminate ; perigonial divisions exterior ovate, interior linear ; lip clasping-sessile, hastate- 

 deltoid, mucronate-emarginate : the mucro iuflexed towards the large, basilar coucavity. — 

 Malaxis, Sw. — 1' high ; leaves 2"-4", lower pedicels 6"', flowers 1'" long. — Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Pd., in mountain-woods, Gap of S. Andrews ; Dominica !, Imr. ; Trinidad !, Cr., S. Anne ; 

 [Cuba ! ; Mexico !]. • 



3'J. M. spicata, Lindl. Stem 2-leaved, 4-angular, or subcylindrical ; leaves slightly 

 alternating, long-sheathing, ovate-roundish, mucronulate ; flowers greenish, somewhat dis- 

 tant in an elongated raceme : pedicels at length thrice as long as the flower : bracts linear- 

 acuminate; perigonial divisions exterior oblong, interior linear ; lip clasping-sessile, hastate- 

 subquadrate, shortly 3-lobed: middle lobe bluntish. — Sw. Fl. t. 28. inf. analyt., middle 

 lobe of the lip more produced than in our form. — Malaxis, Sw. — H'-J' high; leaves 

 3"-U", raceme l"-2", at length 6"-8", flowers 1"' long.— Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., mountains 

 of Westmoreland ; [Cuba !] . 



7. LIPARIS, Rich. 



Lip parallel below to the column: perigonial divisions distinct, spreading. Column slender, 

 winged at the summit : pollinaria 4, collateral. — Root terrestrial in the West Indian 

 species ; stem terminal from an aerial tuber ; flowers racemose, or spicale. 



40. Ii. elliptica, G. Rchb. (ex diagn.). Scape margined by a wing ; leaf single, oblong, 

 bluntish ; flowers in a spiciform raceme : bracts exceeding or equalling the ovary ; perigonial 

 divisions linear ; lip ovate repand, abruptly acuminate with the midrib thickish, as long as 

 the perigone ; column incurved. — Sturmia, G. Rchb. L. jamaicensis, Lindl. in Herb. Hook. 

 — 3"-12"high; leaf 2"-6" long, 8"'-10'" broad; flowers 2"'-3'" long.— Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Macf., Pd., in savannahs, Clarendon; Trinidad!, Cr.; [Venezuela; Guiana]. 



41. Ii. elata, Lindl. Scape margined by a wing ; leaves 3-4, large, elliptical, or ovate, 

 pointed, cuneate at the long-sheathing base; flowers in a spiciform raceme: bracts about as 

 long as the ovary ; perigonial divisions linear-oblong ; lip cnneate-ovate, blunt, as long as 

 the perigone, exceeding the thickish, incurved column. — BoL Reg. t. 1175 : the synonym of 

 the Indian L. bituberculata, Lindl. (added afterwards), is to be excluded. — l'-lV high ; 

 leaves 6" -8" long, 3"-4" broad ; flowers 3'" long.— Hab. Jamaica !, Hist., Wils., March ; 

 Dominica !, Imr. ; [Cuba ! to Peru ! and Brazil !]. 



8. BOLBOPHYLLUM, Pet. Th. 

 Lip jointed with the produced base of the column : perigonial divisions connivent-erect, 



