216 ORCHIDEZ. 
Limodorum tuberosum, Jacq. Coll. iv. p. 108. 
Limodorum purpureum, Lam. Encycl. iii. p. 515; Red. Liliac. t. 83. 
Bletia purpurea, DC. huit. not. Pl. Rar. Jard. Gen. p. 23. 
Cymbidium altum, Willd. n. 44; Pers. Syn. ii. p. 516. 
Bletia acutipetala, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3217. 
Soutn Mexico, Mirador (Liebmann, 376, 377), valley of Cordova (Bourgeau, 2208) ; 
GuaTeMALA, Duefias (Wendland), common in the marshy ground round the lake of 
Duefias (Godman & Salvin); Nicaragua, Volcan de Masaya ( (Ersted).—J aMaIca ; CUBA. 
Hb. Kew. | 
There are several unnamed specimens in Kew herbarium that may belong to this 
species, which seems to be a very common one, though we are not sure that the fore- 
going names do not represent more than one species. Bletia shepherdii, Hook. Bot. 
Mag. t. 3319, sometimes associated with B. verecunda, seems to differ in its broader 
leaves &c. 
18. CHYSIS. 
Chysis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1937, et 1841, t. 23; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 514. 
An exclusively Tropical-American genus, ranging from Mexico to Venezuela and 
Colombia. Six or eight species have been published, though some of them are rather 
varieties of each other than distinct species. | 
1, Chysis aurea, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1937; Bot. Mag. t.3617; Walp. Ann. vi.p.471. 
6. maculata, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4576, icon. in Fl. des Serres, t. 671, et in 
Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 121 iterata. 
y. limminghii, Lemaire, Ill. Hort. 1860, t. 240; Hook. Bot. Mag. 1861, 
t. 5265; Warn. Sel. Orch. ser. 1, t. 834; Lindl. et Rchb. f. in Otto & Dietr. Allg. Gart. 
Zeit. 1858, p. 380 (species) ?; Rchb. f. Beitr. Orch. Centr.-Am. p. 43, in obs. sub 
C. aurea. 
Sourn Mexico, Chiapas (Ghiesbreght) ; PANaMA.—VENEZUELA. Hb. Kew. 
Dr. Reichenbach states that C. limminghi, Lind. et Rchb. f. is a good species, dis- 
tinguishable from C. aurea, Lindl., in the dark; but we are not sure that the plant 
figured in the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ and ‘L'Lllustration Horticole’ as C. aurea lim- 
minghit is the true plant, though it most likely 1s. 
2. Chysis bractescens, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, Misc. n. 131, et 1841, t. 23; 
Bot. Mag. t. 5186; Walp. Ann. vi. p. 472. 
Mexico, imported and cultivated by Mr. Barker. Cultivated specimens only in 
Kew herbarium. \ 
3. Chysis levis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, Misc. n. 130; Batem. Orch. Mex. et 
Guat. t. 31; Ill. Hort. t. 365; Warn. Sel. Orch. ser. 2, t. 14; Walp. Ann. vi. p. 472. 
Mexico, imported and cultivated by Mr. G. Barker. Cultivated specimens only in 
Kew herbarium. 
