26 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



spirally twisted, Bomewhal dense, puberulous, 8 L3 cm. 1. Flowers on 

 one side of spike, nodding, white, perianth ', j in. 1. Bracts puberulous, 

 ovate, subacuminate, as Long as, or longer than, the ovary, 6-7 mm. 1. 

 Ovarii pubescent, broader above. Srjxils slightly puberulous, white, 

 8-nerved, lateral oblique at base, ohlong tapering to an obtuse apex, 

 5 mm. 1.. neatly 2 mm. br. : median elliptical, obtuse, I "> 6 nun. 1., 2 mm. br. 

 P( tals 3-nerved, oblong, apex rounded, slightly tapering to base, as long as 

 the median sepal, white. Lip 5*5 mm. 1., 3*75 mm. br. Column \er\ 

 short, green ; rostellum and clinandrium connected by broad wings, 

 rostellum on removal of linear gland with pollinia, 2-dentate. Authrr 

 ovate, cordate, somewhat acute, sessile, brown. Capsule 1 -6 mm. 1., 3-4 

 mm. br. 



2. S. elata L. C. Midi. Joe cit. ; leaves glabrous, radical, long 

 stalked, oval, elliptical or oblong, erect, somewhat abruptly acute, 

 tapering somewhat abruptly into the stalks, whicli are rather 

 Hattish-concave, dilated and clasping at base ; lip, lower half 

 somewhat fiddle-shaped with rounded corners, 5-nerved, abruptly 

 contracted above into a neck and then expanding into a 

 roundish or transversely elliptical apical lobe, minutely curled 

 and crenulate, rather broader than the low r er half, base slightly 

 saccate with a pair of short calli, white, faintly tinged with pink 

 or with faint tinge of brown at apex and striped with green 

 about middle. Lindl. op. cit. 470 ; Griseb. op. cit. 641 ; Cogn. op. 

 cit. 336 (excl. syn. Sloane and Browne) & under S. bicolor Lindl. 

 (as regards Jamaican spec). Satyrium elatum Sw. Prodr. 119 

 (1788). Neottia elata Sw. in Vet. Handl. Stochh. 1800, 226 & Fl. 

 Lid. Occ. 1403; Bot. Mag. t. 2026. P. spiranthoides Griseb. Cat. 

 Cub. 269 (1866) (non Lindl. nee Griseb. Fl,). (PL 3, f. 10-14.) 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On stone walls, on rocky banks and in peaty soil in woodland ; 

 in fl. and fr. Feb.-April; Macfaydenl Distinl Manchester and St. Ann, 

 Purdie ! Bethabara, Wullschlaegcl, 1073, 1074 ! Prior ! near Cinchona 

 J. P. 36; Portland Gap, 5550 ft. J. P. 235 (somewbat abnormal) ; Mt. Moses, 

 2500 ft. J.P. 2191 ; lowlands, J. P. 472 ; Morris ! near Browns Town, Miss 

 T. M. Barrcttl Green River, Sullivanl Knapdale, near Browns Town, 

 1000 ft.; near Mabess River, 4000 ft. ; near Tweedside, south St. Andrew, 

 2500 ft, ; near John Crow Peak, 5500 ft. ; Wallenford, 2500 ft. ; Holly 

 Mount, Mt. Diabolo, 2400 ft. ; Newhaven Gap, 56C0 ft. ; between Cinchona 

 and Morse's Gap, 4900 ft. ; near Morse's Gap, 4500 ft. ; Iron Face, Chester 

 Vale, 3500 ft. ; Harris] Fl. Jam. 7077 (partly), 7631, 7845, 7856, 7857, 7882, 

 8910, 10,458, 10,492, 10,497. Bahamas, Cuba (Wright 624, 3293 in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit.), Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Tortola, St. 

 Martin, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Grenada, Trinidad, Venezuela, 

 B. Guiana, Brazil, Argentine. 



Plant 6 in. to 2 ft. high, with clustered, thick, fleshy root-fibres. Scape 

 erect, somewhat slender, pubescent above, glabrate below, 1*5-4 dm. 1. 

 Leaves 2-6; blade 3-13 cm. 1., 1*5-5*5 cm. br. ; stalks 2-7 cm. 1. Sheaths 

 5-7, free portion oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 7-1 cm. 1. Spike 

 erect, loosely spirally twisced, sometimes somewhat secund, puberulous, 

 2-18 cm. 1. Flowers very shortly stalked, nodding, perianth \-\ in. L, 

 green or brownish-green. Bracts glabrate, dotted, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, longer than the ovary, 8-12 mm. 1., about 2 mm. br. Ovary 



