HOMALOPETALUM 107 



H. vomeriforme * comb. nov. H. jarnaicense Bolfe in Hook. 

 Ic. PL t. 2461 (1896). Epidendrum vomiforme Sw. Prodr. 

 (1788) & Ic. ined. t. 48. E. vomeriforme Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 

 1511 (1806); Beichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 416. Brassavola 

 vomeriformis Beichb. f. ex Griseb. Fl, Br. W. Ind. 621 (1864). 

 (PI. 18, f. 1-6.) Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On trees: in fl. Dec-April; mountains, Sivartzl Colthirst's Run, 

 St. George, J.P. 238, Morris ! Abbey Green, Blue Mts., 4000-5000 ft; near 

 Cinchona, 5000 ft.; Harrisl Fl. Jam. 6107, 7658, 7816, 9783, 10,494 (in part). 



Plant 1^-4 in. high. Pseudobulbs cylindrical, ellipsoidal or some- 

 what globose, 4-6 mm. 1. Leaves ovate-oblong to oblong, shrivelling on 

 drying, keeled, somewhat obtuse, 1-2 cm. 1., 4-5 mm. br. Peduncle 

 filiform, 1-6 5 cm. 1. Bracts, sterile sheathing, distant, 2-3 mm. 1. ; floral 

 somewhat spathaceous, 3-3*5 mm. 1. Floivers sessile, perianth |-f in. 1. 

 Sepals l - 4-2 cm. 1., linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Petcds similar, but 

 shorter by about 2 mm. and narrower. Lip as long as the petals, elliptical 

 (when flattened), shortly acuminate, disk smooth. Column 1 mm. 1., 

 slender below ; clinandrium with one tooth behind and two in front, and a 

 rounded lobe on each side. Capsule (unripe) ellipsoidal with a very short 

 beak, 11 mm. 1. 



38. ELLEANTHUS Presl. 



Terrestrial herbs, tall, simple or branched, leafy. Leaves 

 sessile above a sheath, plaited, lanceolate, nerves somewhat 

 prominent below, highest leaf bract-like. Flowers sometimes 

 dense in the form of a head or in a dense two-ranked spike. 

 Sepals almost equal, free, erect, somewhat rigid. Petals as long 

 as the sepals, generally narrower. Lip attached at the base of 

 the column, erect, as long as the sepals or longer, generally 

 enclosing the column, concave at the very base, with two promi- 

 nent calli in the hollow, generally slightly constricted above 

 the hollow, above roundish or inconspicuously trilobed, margin 

 entire or denticulate. Column erect, semiterete or winged, 

 without a foot. Anther attached to the median tooth, opercular, 

 somewhat convex, slightly incumbent, afterwards erect, distinctly 

 2-celled, the cells not divided ; pollinia 4 in each cell, waxy, 

 ovoid, hardly superposed in pairs, connected at the apex by a 

 sparse viscid substance or by a small granular appendage. 

 Capsule shortly cylindrical, erect or spreading. 



Species 45, natives of tropical America from the West Indies 

 and Central America to Brazil and Peru. 



Flowers in a head 1. E. capitatus. 



Flowers in a spike 2. E. longibracteatus. 



1. E. capitatus Beicltb.f. in Walp. Ann. Bot. vi. 475 (1861); 

 flowers in a head. Cogn. in Fl. Bras. Hi. pt. 5. 325. Bletia 



* The original spelling was vomiforme, an error in orthography, subse- 

 quently corrected by Swartz. 



