36 ORCHIDS OF JAW UCA 



slender, narrowly winged, 2-17 cm. 1. Sheaths at base of stem, few, 



scarious, loose, and soon decaying. Cauline sheaths loose, tubular below, 

 free pari triangular, acuminate, with several nerves and branching veins, 

 r > 1*5 cm. 1. Spike long, crowded with flowers, to 10 or 12 cm. 1. 

 Bracts elliptical, acuminate, 1-nerved, glabrous, as Long as, or longer than, 

 the ovary, 6'5 8 mm. I., l'7-2*5 mm. br. Ovary obovoid-oblong, glabrous. 

 Sepals obtuse, L-nerved; lateral slightly falcate, free part 3* 1-3* 4 mm. 1., 

 1-1*3 mm. br. ; median, free part 2*5-2'9 mm. 1., 1 mm. br. 1'ctals 

 revolute, narrowly linear, obtuse, 1-nerved, as long as the median sepal, 

 4 mm. br. Lip projecting much beyond the revolute sepals, upper 

 margin rolled in; nerves 7, branching; 3-2 mm. br. ; auricles linear, 

 about -5 mm. br. Capsule ellipsoidal, with six shallow keels, about 1 cm. 1., 

 3*5 mm. br. 



2. P. oligantha Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orcli. 454 (1840); leaves 

 small, short-stalked ; flowers white or rosy ; sepals erect, 

 roundish ; lip short, 1 ram. 1. Cogn. in. Si/mb. Ant. vi. 360. 

 Cranichis oligantha Sw. Prodr. 120 (1788), FL Ind. Occ. 

 1425, t. 29, f. 2 &l Ic. ined. t. 23. Prescottia myosurus Beichb. f. 

 in Griseb. FL Br. W. Ind. 640 (1864). (PI. 5, f. 4.) Type in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On damp shady banks ; in fl. and fr. March ; Blue Mts., Sicartz \ 

 Orange Bay, Hanover, Purdie I St. Ann, Priori Stony Hill, J. P. 471 

 (2606) Sijme ! Mt. Moses, J. P. 2156, Morris ! near Cinchona, 4500 ft. ; 

 Clvdesdale 4000 ft. ; Tweedside, south St. Andrew ; Morse's Gap 4900 ft. ; 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7612, 7844, 7856a, 10,094 (partly). Cuba, Porto Kico, 

 St. Thomas, Guadeloupe, Dominica. 



Plant 8-12 in. high. Stem slender, with a few radical leaves and 

 many sheaths, 15-23 cm. 1. Leaves elliptical or oval, obtuse or acute,, 

 tapering into the flattish membranous stalks, sheathing below ; blade 

 2"5-7*5 cm. 1., 1-5-3 cm. br. ; stalk 1-3*5 cm. 1. Sheaths tubular below, 

 free part oblong, tapering into a shortly acuminate apex, 3-1 cm. 1. 

 Spike densely crowded with numerous small flowers, 3-7 cm. 1. Bracts 

 ovate, long-acuminate, 1-nerved, as long as, or a little longer than, the 

 ovary, 3-2 mm. 1. Ovary obovoid, barely 2 mm. 1. Sepals concave, 

 1-nerved, tinged with brownish-pink at the tips ; lateral connivent ; 

 median spreading; free part about 1*3 mm. 1., nearly 1 mm. br. Petals 

 narrowly obovoid, very obtuse, 1-nerved, recurving, barely 1 mm. 1., about 

 5 mm. br. Lip 3-nerved, 1-1*2 mm. 1. ; auricles short, *2 mm. 1. 

 Column winged laterally at the apex. Capsule ellipsoidal, with six shallow 

 keels, 4 mm. 1., 2*5 mm. br. 



13. PONTHIEVA R. Br. 



Terrestrial herbs with fibrous roots. Leaves radical, ovate, 

 oval or elliptical, membranous, many -nerved, reticulately 

 veined ; stalks long or short, flattish, membranous, sheathing 

 below. Scape simple, slender with a few sheaths. Flowers 

 small, shortly stalked, in a lax raceme generally glandular- 

 pubescent. Bracts narrow, generally small. Sepals free, 

 spreading, either nearly equal or the lateral broader than the 

 median. Petals raised on the column, spreading, very asym- 

 metrical, triangular. Lip on the upper side ot the flower ;. 



