572° A. Cosnmux: 
non indicato: Picarda n.435; Guadeloupe in uliginosis ad La Goyave, 
Ste. Marie, Gombeyre: Duss n. 3395; Trinidad (ex Salisbury et 
Loddiges). — Mexico, Panama, Venezuela. 
359. Bletia Shepherdii Hook. pseudobulbo depresso-subgloboso, 
superne transverse annulato, 50 mm. erasso; foliis late lanceolatis, longe 
‚acuminatis, basi longe angustatis, multinerviis, 40—45 cm. longis, 
5—8 cm. latis; scapo robusto, teretiusculo, simpliei vel ramoso, laxius- 
cule multifloro, usque 9 dm. longo; bracteis triangulari-linearibus, 
acuminatis, 10—12 mm. longis; floribus erectis, longe pedicellatis, 
segmentis patulis, superne satis recurvis; sepalis oblongis, acutis, 
21/,-—3 em. longis; petalis obovatis, apice rotundatis, margine undu- 
latis, sepalo dorsali aequilongis; labello petalis satis longiore, ambitu 
anguste obovato, profundiuscule trilobato, lobis undulato-crispis, late- 
ralibus subrotundatis, terminali valde producto, obovato, apice leviter 
emarginato, disco usque infra apicem 5-lamellato, lamellis latis, tenui- 
bus, undulatis, aequilongis; columna apoda, elongata, anguste bialata. 
Bletia Shepherdiüi Hook. in Bot. Mag. (1834) 1.3319; @riseb. Flor. 
p. 622; Veitch, Man. Orch. VI (1890) p. 22. 
Flores intense fusco-purpurei, lamellis disco albis. 
Hab. in Jamaica ad Port- Antonio, inter Boy Walk et Spanish 
Town: Hitchcock, loco non indicato: Distin. 
360. Bletia alta (L.) Hitche. pseudobulbo depresso-subgloboso, 
transverse pluriannulato, 3—5 cm. crasso, vaginis pluribus scariosis 
vestito; foliis linearibus vel anguste lineari-lanceolatis, longe acumi- 
natis, basi anguste cuneatis et in petiolum canaliculatum plus minusve 
productis, crasse multinerviis, 4—8 dm. longis, 1—3 em. latis, scapo 
teretiusculo, vaginis paueis brevissimis acutisque vestito, simpliei vel 
saepius satis ramoso, usque 15 dm. longo, laxe multifloro; bracteis 
anguste triangularibus, longe acuminatis, 4—12 mm. longis; floribus 
erectis, breviuscule pedicellatis, segmentis patulis; sepalo dorsali lan- 
ceolato, acuto, 7-nervuloso, 17—18 mm. longo, 4 mm. lato, sepalis 
lateralibus late oblongis, abrupte acutiusculis, 9—11-nervulosis, 15 mm. 
longis, 6 mm. latis, mento distineto, obtuso; petalis ligulato- ovatis, 
obtusiusculis, 9-nervulosis, 15 mm. longis, 7—8 mm. latis; labello 
ambitu late ovato, 12—13 mm. longo, 10—11 mm. lato, basi sub- 
truncato, superne profunde trilobato, lobis lateralibus ovatis, apic® 
rotundatis, non undulatis, lobo terminali producto, late obeordato, 
valde undulato-crispo, apice profundiuscule emarginato, disco fere 
usque ad apiceem 5— 7-lamellato, lamellis erassiuseulis, simplicibus, 
erispis; columna basi in pedem producta, 9—10 mm. longa, anguste 
bialata. | | 
