142 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



rhizus Beichb. f. in Flora xlviii. 279 (1865) \ A., spathaceus Oriseb. 

 Cat. PI. Cub. 264 (1866). 



On trees; Castleton; Cedar Burst; J. P. 2326, Syme\ Belvedere, 

 Hanover. .">(:<> ft., Harris I Fl. Jam. 7570. Cuba, Trinidad, Guiana. 



Plant less than 1 in. to 1 in. high. Atrial tools hanging freo or some- 

 times attaching themselves to the kirk of trees, broad and flat, flexucse, 

 simple, to 3 dm. 1., to 4 mm. hr. Stem reduced to a knob from which the 

 aerial roots and the racemes spring. Leaves wanting. Spikes radical, 

 several, 8-many-clustered, with numerous flowers; peduncle puberulous. 

 Flowers sessile. Sepals, median narrowly triangular, 3-nerved, abruptly 

 acute, 4-6 mm. 1., about 1 mm.br.; lateral lanceolate, slightly oblique, 

 1-nerved, 5' 2 mm. 1., 1*2 mm. br. Petals subulate, 3-nerved, 4*5 mm. 1., 

 1 mm. br. Lip, lower half suborbicular, upper triangular, acuminate ; 

 4 mm. 1., lower part about 2 mm. br., upper 1 mm. br. ; 9-nerved below, 

 5-nerved above. Spur narrowly ellipsoidal, slightly constricted at the 

 origin, about 2*5 mm. 1., *7 mm. br., spreading. Capsule ellipsoidal, 

 6-ribbed, about 8 mm. 1. 



5. C. Sullivanii Faicc. & Bendle op. cit. 128; leafless; bracts 

 ovate, acute, clasping, 1*7 mm. 1., 1*3 mm. br. Aeranthes fili- 

 formis Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 625 (1864; (in part, excl. syn.). 

 (PL 31, f. 1-14.) 



On trees; in fl. Jan.-March ; Negril ; Woodside, St. Mary; Purdiel 

 Manchester Mts., Wilson ! J. P. 34, Morris ! Spaldings, Sullivan \ Monk- 

 lands, Eoberts ! Alexandria, Ramble, Mrs. Bankine ! Belvedere, Hanover, 

 500 ft., Harris ! near Hope Bay, Moore ! Fl. Jam. 7523, 10,464. 



Plant, raceme 1-2 in. high. Aerial roots hanging free or sometimes 

 attaching themselves to the bark of trees, somewhat slender, long, flexuose, 

 canescent, simple, to 3 dm. 1., 1*5-2 mm. br. Stem reduced to a knob, 

 from, which the aerial roots and the racemes spring. Leaves wanting. 

 Spikes radical, several, 4-7-clustered, with numerous flowers in two ranks, 

 3-6 cm. 1., rachis minutely puberulous. Pedicels short, about -7 mm. 1. 

 Ovary obovoid, 1*5-2 mm. 1., nearly 1 mm. br. Floivers brownish- 

 white. Sepals 1-nerved; median ovate, acute, apiculate, 1*4-1*7 mm. 1., 

 8 mm. br. ; lateral ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, 1*7-1*8 mm. 1., *7-*8 

 mm. br. Petals 1-nerved, oval or ovate-elliptical, subacute, 1*25 mm. 1., 

 6-* 7 mm. br. Lip 3-lobed, 7-nerved, 1*3 mm. 1., 1*3 mm. br., middle 

 lobe triangular, acute, apiculate, *25 mm. 1. ; lateral rounded ; spur linear, 

 slightly clavate, 1*1-1*2 mm. 1. Column green. Capsule broadly ellip- 

 soidal, 9-ribbed, 4 mm. 1., 2-3 mm. br. 



C. filiforme Eolfe {Epidcndrum filiforme Sw. ; type in Herb. Mus. Brit, 

 from S. Domingo) differs from this species in the lip, the capitate spur, 

 and the obtuse sepals and petals. 



61. HARRISELLA Fawc. & Rendle. 



Epiphytic herbs, stemless and leaflless ; roots clustered. 

 Flowers minute, in two ranks, in lax few-flowered radical racemes, 

 jointed on a short pedicel which is swollen above. Bracts small, 

 persistent. Sepals free, subequal, erect, slightly spreading above. 

 Petals similar to, and as long as the sepals, but narrower. Lip 

 slightly longer than the sepals, sessile at base of column, pro- 

 duced at the base into a spur, globose from a very constricted 

 base ; the blade somewhat globose, embracing the column, and 



