484 NEOTTEJE—PHYSURIDA. 
granum miliaceum vix equantes, bracteis duplo fer® breviores; ex 
Endlichero. / 
CCLXXII. CHLOIDIA. 
Perianthium ringens. Sepalum dorsale liberum, sejunctum ; lateralia basi 
zequalia, cum petalis liberis conformibus labello supposita. Labellum 
liberum, sessile, lineare, columnd parallelum, ecallosum, acuminatum. 
Columna elongata, semiteres, basi nonnihil producta ; stigmate ovato, 
rostello acuminato demum fisso. Anthera acuminata, dorsalis; clinan- 
drio utrinque dentato.—————Herbz ramose, terrestres, caulescentes, 
glabrae, Americe equatorialis. Folia rigida, vaginantia, plicata, arun- 
dinacea. Racemi compositi, multiflori, axillares et terminales. Flores 
secundi, nutantes, colorati, trigoni; bracteis minutis, ovario elongato. 
These plants have the habit of a branching grass rather than of an 
Orchidaceous plant, and may be compared to that of Evelyna in Epiden- 
dree, or of Sobralia in Arethusee. They afford the only known example 
of a branching inflorescence among the Neotteous tribe. 
1. CuroipiA decumbens. 
C. bracteis ovatis acutis basi cucullatis ovario lineari pluries brevioribus, 
labello basi concavo apice acuminato canaliculato subcrispo et carnoso 
petalorum longitudine. 
Neottia flava. Swartz. fl. Ind. occ. p. 1417. ? 
Serapias flava. Swartz. prodr. 119. ? 
Hab in Brasilia; in Mato Virgine ad faz. Guidowald, Martius ; necnon in 
sylvis paludosis montium J«maice, Januario florens Swartz. ? (exam. s. 
sp. in hb. reg. Berol.) 
Caulis decumbens, 2-3-pedalis, teres, angulato-flexuosus ; radicibus fasci- 
culatis preditus. Folia alta, duriuscula, plicata, lanceolata, acuminata. 
Panicula racemorum alternorum floribus erecto-secundis. Bractee 
inferiores lanceolate, superiores ovate. Flores trigoni. Sepala flava, 
lanceolata, medio dorso elevato. Petala alba, lanceolata, acuta, dorso 
acuto flavo (magis oblanceolata quam sepala). Labellum lanceolatum, 
acutiusculum, laminz margine subundulato. Martius MSS. 
I am uncertain whether this plant is the same as Swartz's Neottia flava. 
So far as the description given by that author is concerned, there is no 
material discrepancy ; except that he says the leaves of his plant are 2 or 3 
feet long. Here they are not a foot in length. But if the stem of N. fava 
is erect, and the petals of the same colour as the sepals, as seems to be 
implied, then it is probable that the West Indian plant forms a distinct 
species. 
2. CnLoipia vernalis. 
C. bracteis minutis linearibus, labello ovato plano apice recurvato basi 
ventricoso petalis breviore. 
Serapias polystachya. Swartz. prodr, 119. 
Neottia polystachya. Swartz. fl. Ind. occ. p. 1415. 
Hab. in sylvis montium altissimorum Jamaice, Clarendon dictorum, solo 
depresso sterili, primo vere florens Swartz. (v. s. sp. herb. in Banks.) 
