132 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



short, 2 mm. 1., wings somewhat oblong-triangular with rounded corners, 

 about 3 mm. 1., 4 mm. br. 



4. 0. luridum Lindl. in Bot. Meg. t. 727 (1823) ; loaves large, 

 leathery, broadly ligulate-oblong ; pseudobulbs wanting or 



occasionally occurring and quite small ; lateral sepals free ; lip 

 much narrower at base than above, at base cordate, lateral lobes 

 small, semi-elliptical, margin revolute ; median lobe large, shortly 

 clawed, kidney-shaped, at apex emarginate, sinus between the 

 lobes roundish, rather broad, disk at the base with a thick 

 fleshy crest composed in the lower half of two swollen calli 

 uniting below where there is sometimes a small tubercle on each 

 side, a third thin callus rises between these calli and is continued 

 above with a 2-lobed tubercle on each side. Lindl. Gen. <(; Sp. 

 Orch. 201 (excl. syn. L. & Willd.), Fol. Orch. Oncid. 41 (excl. syn, 

 L. & Willd.) ; Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 3603 ; Griseb. op. cit. 632. 

 O. luridum var. guttatum Lindl. in Bot. Beg. xxv. t. 16 (1839) ; 

 Ames Oreh. S. Fla. 21. O. carthaginense Sw. in Vet. Handl. Stochh. 

 xxi. 240 (1800) & Fl. Lid. Occ. 1479 non Auet, O. guttatum 

 Beiclib. f. in Walp. Ann. Bot. vi. 782 (1863) ; Cogn. in Fl. Bras. 

 Hi. pt. 6, 411. Viscum radice bulbosa majus &c. Sloane Cat. 119 & 

 Hist. i. 250, t. 148,/. 1. Epidendrum undulatum Sw. Prodr. 122 

 (1788), non Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 777. (PI. 29, f. 9-11.) 



On trees and rocks; in fl. April-Sept.; near Spanish town, Sloane 

 Herb. iv. 177 ! Wright ! Poore ! Masson ! Bancroft ! Macfadyen I Wag 

 Water River, Purdie ! Fairfield, Wullschlaegel, 1095a ! March ! common, 

 200-3500 ft., J.P. 2396 Morris I Bog Walk, 300 ft., Lehmannl Cedar 

 Hurst, Watt ! Moore ! Trelawney (yellow without spots), Miss Jeffrey Smith ! 

 Mansfield, Bath, 1000 ft.; Tyre, near Troy, 1500 ft.; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 

 8646. Cuba, Florida, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, 

 Grenada, Trinidad, Margarita, Venezuela, Colombia, B. Guiana, Peru, 

 Mexico. 



Boots numerous, densely- clustered, long. Sheaths triangular-ovate, 

 acute, 1-12 cm. 1. Leaves 3-5 dm. 1., 6-9 cm. br. Panicle 9-18 dm. 1., 

 much longer than the leaves, with several very short adpressed distant 

 sheaths (to 1-5 cm. 1.). Bracts very short, 3-5 mm. 1., triangular, acute. 

 Flowers rather large, long-stalked, segments spreading, margin curled- 

 wavy, yellow colour spotted more or less with cinnarnon-brown, rarely 

 yellow without any spots, lip about f in. 1., and nearly an inch br. Sepals 

 with 3-5 branching nerves of about equal length, rounded at the apex, 

 median obovate-roundish or obovate-oblong, at the base abruptly long and 

 narrowly clawed, 1'4-1*7 cm. 1. (claw 4-5 mm. 1.), 8*5-10 mm. br. ; lateral 

 narrower, broadly elliptical, at the base long tapering into a claw, 

 1'4-1*7 cm. 1., 7-8 mm. br. Petals with four or five branching nerves, 

 obovate-roundish, or obovate-oblong at the base abruptly, rather broadly, 

 shortly clawed, about as long as sepals or slightly shorter, l-5-l*6 cm. 1., 

 9-10 mm. br. Lip l - 5-2 cm. 1., 1-6-2-3 cm. br., at base about 8 mm. br. 

 Column short, 4-5 mm. 1., wings 2-lobed, anterior lobe hatchet-shaped, 

 posterior small rounded. Capsule very large, obovoid-ellipsoidal, tapering 

 to base, 5 cm. 1., 2 cm. br. 



5. 0. leueoehilum Bateman ex Lindl. in Bot. Beg. under 

 t. 1920 (1837); leaves large, leathery, ligulate, acute; pseudo- 



