3!4 HT>IITUS JAMAICENSIfi. mrm 



This is r,n elegant parasitical plant. Roots round, fibrousyash-coloffrecl, mimerous:; 

 leaves acute, eiisit'onii-oblong, vcinless, shinin'r^ quite entire, thickish, an inch \\'u\o^ 

 and halt' a loot long, keelt-d at the base, in oiIk r parts flat, each springing from a jonit, 



,or an ovate-compressed, sniooth, tuber, sofftetiines as big as a goose's ega;, whicti is 

 placed at the base of another root-leaf or two, like the others. Betueen this an4 the 

 joint arises a solitary, round, sniooth, scape, of a rust colour, slender, inclined, four 

 icet high, racemed at top, clothed at the peduncles and joints with membranaceous, 



Janceoiate, ash-coloured spathes. Peduncles two or three-ilovvered, alternate in two 

 rows ; flowers without scent, yellwv with brown spots, numerous ; petals oblong, dis- 

 tinct, acute at both ends, waved, nearly equal. The middle segment of the lower lip 

 ef the nectary is squarish, and the whole is jellow, vpithout spots. J&cquin. 



29. FRAE;VKS. FRAGRANT.. 



Leaves broad-lanceolate, neneless, growing on the bulb; scape many- flowered, 

 abbreviated ; lip heart-shaped. 



30. SANGUINEUM. BLOOD-COLOURED. 



Viscum radice liidbosa minus, delphinii flore ruhro specioso. Sloane^ 

 ^ V. 1, p. 250, t. 121, 2. Parusiticum ; foliis paiicioribus, radi- 



calibus, scapo sinipllct, sub-squamoso, spieaio ; ncctariis adnatis. 

 Browne, p. 324. 



Leaves in pairs, oblong, growing on the bulb; scape many-flowere3, sub- 

 flexuose ; lip roundish, wa\"ed, emarginate, hornadnate. 



This has manv thick white fibres, like those of leeks, or the tendrils of ivy, taking 

 firm hold of the bark of trees, and matted together : these send up one thick, greenish, 

 "rounotish, coinpressed, bulbous or tuberous leaf, of an inch diameter, covered with 

 some brown withered filaments. From the top of this come two smooth, striated, hol- 

 low, hard, pale green, leaves, three inches long and one broad, between which springs 

 .out a naked, brown, jointed, round, smooth, stalk, about a foot high, near-the top 

 of which stand several long reddish purple flowers, very beautiful. It grows on ebonies 

 and other trees in the savanna woods plentifully: Sloan-e. Browne calls it the parasi- 

 tical satyrium, with red flowers and bulbous roots, and observes that it is one of the 

 -most beaut!.ful species of this tribe, growing indifferently on trees and rocks in^ie low- 

 lands, seldom rising above twelve or fit-teen iiK;hes. 



3I.POLYBULBON. MANY-BULBED. 



Stem creeping, liulb-bearing ; bulbs two-leaved, one-flowered ; flower pedun* 

 cled ; lip neart-shaped. Sw. '. 



32. PROLIFEEUM. 

 Caulescent; leaves distich, sub-imbricate, ovate ; bulbs, from the sljeaths <rf 

 the leaves, two-leaved; flowers axillary, sessile. Sw. 



33. VKSTITUM. CLOTHED. 



Stem leaflt i^s, imbricate all round with sheaths, roundish, bulb-bearing; bulbs 

 growing on the leaf} iiowers crowded Iroui tlie^lieallis of the stem -^Sw. 



ii, VOMIfOBME. 



