194 GYNANDRIA. MONANDRIA. 
Srectes. 1. C, pulcheilus. Cymbidium palchellum. Willd. 
Pu. 2. p.592. A second species of this genus appears 
to exist in North and South Carolina, judging from hiver- 
nal vestiges; in these there is buta single ensiform radi- 
cal leaf about 12 inches long, numerously striated and 
nearly obtuse; the scape is terete, 18 inches high, and 8 
to 10-flowered; the lip appears to have been nearly simi- 
lar to that of C. pulchellus. Root tuberous. 
615. ARETHUSA. R. Brown. 
Petals 5, connate at the base. Lip below grow- 
ing to the column, cucallate above, and internal- 
ly crested. Pollen angular. 
; Root bulbous, subglobose; scape leafless, I-flowered. _ 
Spectres. 1. A- bulbosa. Ons: A. pendula and A. vertici’- 
lata are retained in this genus by Sprengel and apparently 
also by R. Brown, but they do not appear to be congeners, 
and certainly do not accord with the present generic cha- 
racter of Arethusa. 
tttt Anther terminal, moveable, dériducds- Afi: b | ey 
ses of frolien at length cereaceous. PAs 
616. BLETIA. Ruiz and Pavon. R. Brown. 
Petals 5, distinct. Lip sessile, cucullate; some- | 
times calcarate at the base. Column free. Pol- 
linia 8 or 4 bilobed. ; 
Roots bulbous, subglobose; scapes or stems simple, 
~ flowers racemose or rarely capitate; leaves mostly narrow 
_ orensiform and arid, rarely wanting. ee 
Species. 1. B. verecunda. Cymbedium verecundum. 
Willd. Has. In Florida. 
2. * aphylla. Leafless; scape terete, racemose, attenua- 
ted and squamiférous, scales evate, alternate, numerous; 
lip spurless. Has. In Carolina and Florida. v. s. In Herb. 
es Muhl. and Baldwyn. A very singular species, with an in- 
_-Srassated scaly scape about a foot high, the upper part ter- 
minating in a raceme of brownish-purple flowers possess- 
— he characters of a genuine species, the lip diva- 
we y vemed, not produced at the base, and trifid as in 
_Asmall genus principally i digeno | 
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