ORCHIDE.E. 641 



linear, acuminate, as long as the flowers ; perigonial divisions ovate, pointed, exterior lateral, 

 as long as the lip, superior and 2 interior cohering at the gibbous base ; lip cucullate to the 

 middle, keeled on the back ; blade oval, entire. — 6" high ; spike 1", flowers 1'" long — 

 Hab. Trinidad !, Cr. ; [Guiana]. 



207. S. bicolor, Lindl. Stem distantly sheathed with minute leaves, villous-puberu- 

 lous ; leaves " lowest rosulate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate," disappearing before anthesis, 

 those of the stem ovate, inserted into a tubular sheath, bluntish or pointed, superior acumi- 

 nate, gradually passing into bracts ; spike lax, spiral, densely glandular-pubescent : bracts 

 ovate-acuminate, exceeding the ovary ; perigonial divisions exterior lateral lanceolate, gib- 

 bous below the lip, superior and 2 interior cohering below the S-dentate summit, forming 

 an ovate-oblong galea with a gibbous base ; lip complicated, keeled on the back, cucullate at 

 the dilated base, contracted at the middle: blade obovate, emarginate, subentire. — But. 

 Reg. t. 794.— About 1' high; spike 2"-4", flowers 3'" long, the latter " greenish with a 

 white lip." — Hab. Trinidad !, Pd., Cr., Savannah de Omara. 



208. S. elata, Rich. (L., R.). Scape glabrous, sheathed with distant, appressed, clasp- 

 mg-tubular, acumiuate scales ; leaves rosulate, elliptical or elliptical-oblong, pointed, pe- 

 tioled ; spike elongated, spiral, pubescent : bracts lanceolate-acuminate, nearly as long as 

 the flower ; perigonial divisions linear, blunt, exterior lateral cohering at the gibbous base 

 beneath the lip, as long as the latter, superior exceeding the 2 interior ones, little adhering 

 to them at the base; lip linear, blunt, entire, channelled-clasping below. — Bot. Mag. 

 t. 202C— Neottia, Sw.— \\'-2> high ; leaves 2"-6", spike 3"-8", flowers 3'" long, the 

 latter "greenish." — Hab. Jamaica!, all coll., in woods; Antigua I, Wullschl., Dominica!, 

 Imr. ; Trinidad !, Pd., Cr. ; [Cuba ! to Brazil !]. 



209. S. Scopulariae, G. Rchb. ! Scape villous, sheathed above with 1-2, clasping, 

 lanceolate, membranaceous scales ; leaf single, cordate-orbicular : petiole short, sheathing ; 

 spike spiral, villous-pubescent : bracts lanceolate, nearly as long as the ovary ; perigonial 

 divisions lanceolate, all distinct above their obliquely adnate tube ; lip channelled-clasping 

 below the middle, a little shorter than the perigone : blade short, oblong, fleshy at the 

 bluntish summit, involute at the entire margin. — 4"-6" high; leaves H"-2" diam. ; spike 

 1 -\\ n , flowers 2"' long. — Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., savannahs above S. Joseph. 



§ 2. Flowers curved-suberect : exterior lateral divisions of the perigone deflexed 

 (Sarcoglottis, Prl.). 



210. S. picta, Lindl. Scape glabrous below, sheathed with ( lasping-tubular, acumi- 

 nate scales ; leaves coetaneous, large, lanceolate-oblong or elliptic ./-oblong, tapering into 

 the petiole ; spike hairy : flowers large, distant : bracts linear-acumhi ,te, as long as the ovary ; 

 perigonial divisions oblong-linear, exterior lateral decurrent ; lip included, oblong, chan- 

 nelled below the deltoid, veiny summit, dilated at the base.— Bot. Tteg.i. 823.— 1'-2' hiirh ; 

 leaves 4"-6", spike 4"-6", flowers about 8"'-10'" long, the latter "greenish-white or varie- 

 gated." — Hab. Trinidad !, Bradfl, at the cascade of Diego Martin ; [Guiana !, Brazil]. 



211. S. simplex, Or. {n. sp.). Scape glabrous below, puberulous above, sheathed with 

 linear-acuminate, distant scales ; leaves none at the time of flowering ; flowers 1-2 : brads 

 lanceolate-acuminate, exceeded by the ovary ; perigonial divisions exterior lateral oblong, 

 blunt, constricted above the middle, superior and 2 interior united to the middle, forming 

 a Z-fid galea with an elliptical, concave lower portion, and linear, blunt lobes : middle lobe 

 longer, recurved, lateral erect ; lip as long as the perigone, nearly conform to its exterior 

 lateral divisions, constricted above the middle: lower portion concave, elliptical-oblong, 

 upper oval ; column slender.— Root-fibres cylindrical, about \\ m thick ; scape 5"-6" high, 

 filiform ; scales 6'", bracts 4'", ovary 6'", perigone 4"' long ; anther shortly stipitate : polli- 

 naria 2.— Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., at Aripo ; [Brazil ?, G. Rchb. in tit.]. 



68. STENORRHYNCHIJS, Rich. 



Character of Spirant hes, bnt lip devoid of callosities, column slender with a persistent, 

 long-acuminate rostellum, and exterior lateral divisions of the perigone (in the West Indian 

 species) produced at the base into an adnate sack or spur.— Scape sheathed with scales ; 

 flowers spicate : bracts coloured : perigone erect-spreading. 



