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pointed: anther dorsal above its base, beaked : "pollinaria 4." — Root fascicled ; leaves 

 usually rosulate, those of the stem small, or transformed into sheathing scales ; flowers 

 spicale. 



196. C. mnecosa, Sw. (L., R.). Root-fibres villous; stem glabrous; rosulate leaves 

 ovate, or ovate-oblong, pointed, petioled, those of the stem foliaceous, inferior cucullate- 

 sessile, ovate-roundish, superior oblong-lanceolate ; flowers densely spicatc : bracts oblong- 

 lanceolate, or lanceolate, as long as the ovary : perigonial divisions oblong, spreading; lip 

 as long, sessile, obovate-oblong, tubercled inside, free from the column. — Sw Ft. t. 29"/. 3 : 

 analyt.—\'-V{~2') high; lowest leaves l'H?", those of the stem 6"'-4"'long; flowers 

 white, 1"'-1£"' long, much shorter than the slender ovary. — Hab. Jamaica !, all coll., in 

 moist, shady woods ; Dominica!, Imr., S. Vincent, Guild. ; Trinidad!, Cr. ; [Cuba!]. 



197. C. pauciflora, Sw. (L.). Root-fibres villous ; scape glandular-puberulous above, 

 distantly sheathed ; leaves rosulate, roundish-elliptical, or elliptical, bltmtish, shortly pe- 

 tioled or subsessile ; flowers subdistaut, somewhat one-sided : bracts ovate, pointed, half as 

 long as the ovary ; perigonial divisions spreading, exterior lateral obliquely ovate, ventral 

 oblong-lanceolate, 2 interior half -ovate ; lip as long, sessile, concave to the middle, subulate, 

 adnate to the base of the column, the latter half as long, beaked.— 8"-l 5" high ; leaves 

 1 ~H"loug; flowers "whitish," 2'" long. — Hab. Jamaica!, List., M' Nab, in mountain- 

 woods; [Cuba!]. 



198. C. ventricosa, Gr. (n. sp.). — Root-fibres villous ; scape glandular above, distantly 

 sheathed ; leaves rosulate, elliptical, or lanceolate-oblong, shortly petioled, or subsessile ; 

 flowers subdistant, somewhat one-sided : bracts ovate, or oblong, pointed, one-third as long as 

 the slender ovary ; perigonial divisions spreading, exterior lateral obliquely ovate, ventral 

 oblong-lanceolate, 2 interior unequally 2-lobed; lip included, sessile, bluntly saccate-cucul- 

 cate with a deltoid summit, continuous with the base of the column, the latter half as long, 

 beaked. — Allied to C.gibbosa, Lindl. !, in which the stem is taller, less glandular, the lowest 

 sheaths foliaceous, and the interior divisions of the perigone spathulate, not auricled. 

 8"-li' high; leaves variable, 3 "-1", flowers 3'" long.— Hab. Jamaica !, Wils., Wullschl., 

 Manchester ; [Cuba !, PI. Wright. 1476, 1479]. 



199. C. diphylla, Sw. "Root-fibres glabrous; scape glabrous ; leaves usually 2-1, 

 cordate, acuminate, petioled ; flowers small, numerous in a short spike : bracts minute, 

 ovate, pointed ; perigonial divisions 2 interior lanceolate, smaller than the exterior ones ; 

 lip included, keeled on the back ; column acuminate." — " 6" high ; flowers greenish-white." 



Hab. Jamaica (Sw.), in bogs of the highest mountains, among mosses. 



64. WULLSCHL^GELIA, G. Rchb. 



Character of Cranichis, but column truncate with a large, depressed, margined stigma, 

 and. the recurved anther near its 2-mucronate summit. — A leafless, terrestrial parasite, with 

 fascicled roots ; flowers small, racemose : perigone obliquely curved, connivent. 



200. W. aphylla, G. Rchb. !—Sw. Fl. t. 29. /. 1 : analyt — Cranichis, Sw.— 6"-15" 

 high, slender, pubcrulous ; scales distant, lanceolate-acuminate, about V" long; raceme 

 spiciform, many-flowered, 5"-l" loug: bracts lanceolate, as long as the pedicel, V", ovary 

 lj'"long; perigone "whitish," V" long: exterior lateral divisions deltoid, ventral oblong, 

 interior spathulate ; lip cucullate-deltoid ; column as long as broaTi, slightly incurved : 

 anther shortly clavate, sessile : stigma half-round. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., Wullschl., in shady 

 woods, S. Ann's, rare, Manchester at 2500' alt., Clarendon ; [Cuba !]. 



65. PRESCOTTIA, Lindl. 



Lip posterior, cucullate, hastate-sessiie upon the obliquely adnate tube or sack of the .peri 

 gone : divisions of the latter continuous bv the anterior margin of the sack. Column low : 

 anther dorsal, rounded : " pollinaria 2, bilobed."— Root fascicled ; leaves rosulate {-single) ; 

 flowers in a many-flowered spike. 



201. P. stachyoides, Lindl. Leaves ovate, or elliptical-oblong, pointed, sharply 

 complicated at the long-petioled base ; spike dense, elongated : lowest flowers somewhat dis- 

 tant : bracts as long as the ovary ; perigonial divisions blunt, exterior oblong-linear, 2 in- 



