30 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



subulate, lower portion somewhat ovate, very concave, somewhat 



cordate at base. -Physurus jamaicensis Fain-. <( Rendle hi Joum. 



Bot. xlvii. 264 (1909). (PI. 3, . 20.) 



In shady woods; in il. Oct.; Olive River, oear Christiana, 3000 ft., 

 Harrisl Fl. Jam. L0,472. 



Plant glahrous, about 8 in. high. Stem about 1 dm. 1. Leaves, blade 

 3*5-5 cm. I., LI L6 nun. br. ; stalk with sheath 7-17 mm. 1. ; highest leaf, 

 blade 1*2-1*7 cm. 1. Spike many-flowered, cylindrical, about 4 cm. 1. 

 Bracts ovate-triangular, acuminate, 1-nerved, as long as the ovary, 6-4 

 mm. 1. Ovary slender. Flowers spreading, (with the spur) about l in. 1. 

 Sepals spotted, 1-nerved; median lanceolate, obtuse, margin undulate 

 above the middle, concave, 3*2 mm. L, 1mm. br. ; lateral oblong-elliptical, 

 obtuse, slightly falcate, 3*4 mm. 1., 1-1*1 mm. br. Petals spotted, 1-nerved, 

 linear-lanceolate, margin undulate. 3*1 mm. 1., -75 mm. br. Lip, middle 

 portion about 1*4 mm. 1., 1*6 mm. br., middle lobe "75 mm. 1., lower 

 portion about 1 mm. 1. Spur roundish-elliptical, about half as long as 

 ovary, 1*6-1*8 mm. L, 1-1*3 mm. br. 



8. WULLSCHL^GELIA Reichb. f. 



Terrestrial leafless herb, with clustered fibrous roots slightly 

 thickened. Stem simple, very slender, with a few small scales. 

 Flowers very small, subsessile in a lax spike. Bracts very small. 

 Sepals thin, erect, connivent ; median free * lateral a little broader, 

 united at the base into a saccate chin. Petals similar to the 

 median sepal, but smaller. Lip on the upper side of the flower, 

 sessile at the base of the column, erect, broad, concave, un- 

 divided, produced at the base into a sac within the chin of the 

 sepals. Column very short ; stigma entire, beneath the short 

 broad erect rostellum ; clinandrium short. Anther erect, sessile, 

 ovate, scarcely acuminate, with distinct cells ; pollinia powdery- 

 granular, affixed to a small gland of the rostellum. Capsule 

 small, ovoid, erect. 



Species 3, natives of the West Indies and Brazil. 



W. aphylla Beichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. (1863) 131 Griseb. Fl. 

 Br. W. Ind. 639 * Gogn. in Fl. Bras. Hi. pt. 4, 242, t. 57, /. 1 ; & 

 in Sijmh. Ant. vi. 351. Cranichis aphylla Sw. Prodr. 120 (1788), 

 & Fl. Ind. Occ. in. 1421, t. 29, f. 1, & Ic. med. t, 21 ; Lindl. Gen. 

 & Sp. Orch. 450. (PI. 3, f. 23, 24.) Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



In damp deep-shady woods ; in fl. Sept., Oct. ; mountains of Clarendon, 

 Swartz ! Bethabara, WullscJilaegel, 1071! St. Ann, Purdie ! Cuba, 

 Dominica, Brazil, Paraguay. 



Plant 8-14 in. high, with numerous, very long roots, thickened near 

 base. Stem erect, slender, leafless, puberulous, 16-24 cm. 1., with numerous 

 minute scales. Scales triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, half-clasping, 

 4-5 mm. 1. Raceme somewhat long, many-flowered, 4*5-13 cm. 1. (in 

 fruit). Pedicels 2 mm. to 3 mm. 1. (in fruit). By-acts similar to the scales, 



