394 ORCHIDACEAE 
Hammocks, S pen. Fla. and the Keys.—(W. I., Mex. C. A., S. A.)—Al 
45. BLETIA R. & P. Caulescent herbs with corms. Leaves several from 
the top of ae corm, mostly atte until after the lateral flower-stem arises. 
Flowers in a terminal raceme with minute bracts. Perianth mainly pink or 
purplish. id pons slightly inequilat- 
eral. Petals quite similar to the lateral se- 
pals. Lip wide, crested, 3-lobed, the middle | 
lobe crisped. Capsule mostly ereet.—About “æ MGA S 05 
45 species, mostly of tropical America. 
1. B. purpurea (Lam.) DC. Leaf-blades 
e d Mese to linear-elliptie, 1.5-3. 
An 
«i, 
oy 
long, attenuate: flower-stalk 3-11 dm . tall: E 
lateral sepals elliptie-ovate : — elliptic, XE 
1-16 mm. long, abruptly acuminate: pet 5 
a or ee oval, barely as long as the sepals (3 
lobes and a erisped and create mid 
lobe: capsule 34 e long. LB. VT R. Br.]—Pinelands, pen. Fla. and 
the Keys.—(W. I., C. A.)—A1l year. An epiphytic form E on the bases 
of cypress trunks, EA and ‘‘knees’’ in the Big Cypress Swamp, has ap- 
p T eleistogamous flowers with the lip nearly pond a the two lateral 
pet 
46. CYRTOPODIUM R. Br. Epiphytie herbs. Leaves borne on a short 
club-like pseudobulb, from the base of which arises the lateral flower-stalk. 
owers in a terminal panicle. Perianth oid brown or yellowish. Lateral 
dS aute broad. Petals longer than 
sepals. Lip wider than long, the lateral e 
larger than the middle one, the claw jointed 
to the slender column-foot. Capsule oe 
—Three species, natives of tropical Ameri 
1. C. punctatum (L.) Lindl. Pseudobulbs 1.5— 
4 dm. long: leaf- 2 broadly Wide 
3-7 dm. lon ng: flower-stalks 8-15 dm. long: per 
anth SEIL pb brown spotted: jen 
sepals oval or dL : petals. 
4 mm. wide, the middle lobe o with a 
rgin, T 
: am- 
mocks, S pen. Fla. ape the Keys.—(W. I., Mex., C. 7 S. A.)—Spr.—In mas- 
siveness second only to Oncidiwm e wm. Plants with as many as 200 
pseudobulbs have jo found. Specimens are a on sand-dunes and 
kitehen-middens half way up the m eoast of Fla. 
47. TRIORCHOS Small & Nash. Caulescent herbs with corms. Leaves 
several, arising from the corm before the lateral flower-stalk. Flowers in a 
erminal raceme with elongate bracts. Perianth mainly brown. Lateral sepals 
curved, slightly adnate to the column-foot. Petals nearly equilateral, shorter 
