L34 OBCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



oblong, undivided, Bometimes longer than the Bepals, the 

 disk fleshy or callose. Column short, erect, without a foot, 

 not winged 1 m t 2-auricled below the Btigma* clinandrium trun 

 cate : rostellum elongated. Anther terminal, opercular, in 

 cumbent, 1 -celled, anteriorly produced beyond 11m* cell into a 

 membranous hooded appendage ; pollinia 2, waxy, globose, 

 without an appendage, attached t<> a narrow elongated stalk. 

 gland ovate. Capsule ellipsoidal, beaked. 



Species 7, natives of the West Indies, Mexico, and Central 

 America. 



L. labiatus Kuntze Bev. Gen. 656 (1891). Cogn. in Symb. Ant 

 ir. 182. L. cochlearis Lindl. in Bot. Beg. xxviii. Misc. 23 (1<S42) ; 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 634. Epidendruni labiatum Sic. Prodr. 

 124 (1788), Fl. Ind. Ore. 1493 & Adnot. But. t. 2, f. 6. Oncidium 

 labiatum Beichb.f. in Walp. Ann. n. 741 (1861). (PI. 30, f. 1-5.) 



On trees; in fl. March-June; McNab ; St. Mary; St. Ann; Purdicl 

 Beaufort, Wullschlaegel, 1091 ! Castleton, on river banks, J. P. 2324, Syme ! 

 near Gordon Town ; near Hope Bay ; Moore ! near Browns Town, Miss 

 T. M. Barrett ! Christiana, Tomlinson ! Castleton ; Troy, 1500 ft. ; Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 10,423, 10,426, 10,462. Cuba, Hispaniola, Guadeloupe, Dominica, 

 St. Vincent, Trinidad. 



Plant 2-9 in. high. Roots numerous, very long. Pseudobulb somewhat 

 globose, 7-15 mm. 1. Leaves, from apex of the pscudobulb and from its 

 base, somewhat leathery, 2-7 cm. 1., 5-1*5 cm. br. Scape with a few 

 distant lanceolate keeled acute sheaths below (5-9 mm. 1.), and a few 

 flowers above. Pedicels about equalling ovary, together 8 mm. 1. Bracts 

 triangular, acute, 2-3 mm. 1. Sepals green, spotted with dark reddish- 

 brown, 3-nerved; lateral oblong, obtuse, united at a distance of l f 5-3 mm. 

 from base, 4-4- 5 mm. 1., 1*3-1 "5 mm. br. each at point of union; median 

 elliptical, very shortly acuminate, 3 5 to nearly 4 mm. 1., 1 5 to nearly 2 mm. 

 br. Petals green, spotted with dark reddish-brown, elliptical-oblong, apex 

 conduplicate, shortly acute, 3* 25-3* 5 mm. 1., 1*5-1 '75 mm. br. Lip 

 yellow, streaked with dark reddish-brown at base, elliptical-oblong, con- 

 tracted above the base, where there is a fleshy callus, and very concave at 

 the base, apex generally emarginate, about 5 mm. 1., 2*5 mm. br. Column 

 1*5 mm. 1. Capsule 14-15 mm. 1., 7 mm. br. 



58. CRYPTARRHENA R, Br. 



Small epiphytic herbs. Stems leafy, very short, without 

 pseudobulbs. Leaves several, crowded, membranous-leathery, 

 with leathery sheaths overlapping in two ranks. Peduncles 

 axillary, erect, longer than the leaves, simple. Flowers small, 

 laxly racemose. Bracts narrow, about equalling the pedicels. 

 Sepals almost equal, free, spreading, acute. Petals somewhat 

 like the sepals. Lip continuous with the base of the column, 

 spreading, claw long, keeled-crested above ; lateral lobes at the 

 apex of the claw narrow, spreading or recurved ; median shorter, 

 broader, divided. Column short, thickened above, not winged, 

 without a foot ; clinandrium elevated, hooded, with small teeth 



