ORCHIDE^E. 643 



lateral lanceolate-linear ; lip dilated into a small, semilunar, ciliate blade : spur shortly 

 cylindrical, slightly curved, much shorter than the ovary. — Orchis, Sw. — 6"-12" high ; leaves 

 H"-2", raceme 1 "-3", flowers H'" long, the latter "greenish-white."— Hab. Jamaica!, 

 all coll., in mountain woods; Dominica !, Imr., S. Lucia, S. Vincent ; [Cuba !]. 



219. P. plantagineus, Lindl. ! Stem ascending, puberulous, naked above ; leaves 

 ovate-oblong or ovate, pointed ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, exceeding the ovary ; perigouial 

 divisions exterior lateral oblong-lanceolate, bluntish ; lip dilated above into an ovate-oblong, 

 sub-3-lobed blade: middle lobe narrow, exserted, revolute-acuminate : spur clavate, blunt, 

 descending, exceeding half the ovary. — SI. t. 147. /. 2. Rich. Cub. t. 88.— Satyrium, L. 

 Orchis, Sw. P. Sagrseanus, Rich. Pelexia bursaria, Lindl.— l'-2' high; leaves 4"-2", 

 raceme 2"(-6")loug; flowers white, 3'" long (the spur excluded). — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., 

 Wullschl., in moist woods ; Dominica \, Im r., Bradf. ; Trinidad, Or. ; [Cuba!]. 



72. CHLOIDIA, Lindl. 



Lip anterior, free, clawed, spurless, parallel to the column, devoid of callosities : perigo- 

 nial divisions distinct, the superior diverging from the 2 interior ones. Column slender : 

 anther dorsal : " pollinaria 2." — Root fibrous ; stem leafy ; leaves plaited-chartaceous ; 

 flowers in compound, short, axillary and terminal racemes : bracts small. 



220. C. flava, Gr. Stout; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; panicle short, sub- 

 sessile, most axillary ; bracts ovate-deltoid, concave, inferior oblong-lanceolate ; perigouial 

 divisions oblong -linear (or linear), 2 interior as long as the lip ; lip oblong-linear, chan- 

 nelled below the flat, slightly dilated, pointed, spreading-erect summit. — Neottia, Sw. C. de- 

 cumbeus, Lindl. {ex parte) .— 6'-8' high ; leaves l'-l£', panicles 2"-4", flowers 8'" long, 

 the latter pale-yellow. — Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., in moist woods, Manchester; [Cuba!]. 



221. C. polystachya, G. Rchb. Stem naked below, with tumid nodes ; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; panicle terminal, peduncled, axillary shorter, subsessile, few or 

 none : bracts lanceolate ; perigouial divisions exterior ovate-oblong, 2 interior oblong, 

 longer than the lip ; lip oblong, concave below the middle : blade ovate, pointed, recurved 

 at the margin. — Neottia, Sw. C. vernalis, Lindl.! — l'-2' high; leaves 5"-18", terminal 

 panicle 2"-3", flowers 3'" long, the latter " pale-red." — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., in woods, 

 Manchester, Westmoreland ; [Cuba !]. 



Ulanthe grandiflora, Hook. ! (apparently a Chloraa), figured in Bot. Mag. t. 2956, as 

 introduced from S. Vincent, is probably not indigenous in that island, like several cultivated 

 plants sent by Rev. Mr. Guilding. 



Tribe VI. OPffRYDFJE.— Anther wholly adnate to the column -. pollinaria 2, many 

 lobed, attached to stigmatic glands. — Root terrestrial, usually tuberous. 



73. HABENARIA, W. 



Lip free, spurred : perigonial divisions distinct. Anther-cells diverging, distant at the 

 base: glands naked. Stigma 2-appendiculate. — Superior leaves decrescent; flowers in a 

 spike or spiciform raceme. 



* Perigonial divisions 2 interior 2-partite. 



222. H. macroceratitis, W. (R.). Leaves ovate-oblong ; flowers white, distant, in 

 a few-flowered spike; bracts oblong-lanceolate, almost as long as the ovary; perigonial divi- 

 sions exterior lateral reflexed, ovate-lanceolate, superior cucullate-ovate, 2 interior 2- partite : 

 their anterior segments filiform, recurved, twice as long as the posterior lanceolate ones ; 

 Up Z-partite : middle segments linear, lateral ones longer, filiform : spur very long, about 

 thrice as long as the ovary, curved-descending, filiform, little clavate ; appendages of the 

 stigma falcate.— Sw. Obs. t. 9.— Orchis Habenaria, L. H. macroceras, Spreng.— Tubers 

 single ; stem l'-l£' high; perigone (except its longer filiform divisions) 6"'-8", spur about 

 4" long. — Hab. Jamaica!, all coll., in grassy plains. 



223. H. maculosa, Lindl. I Leafy ; leaves oblong-lanceolate ; flowers white, in a 



