OROONO HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. ^ 



of these conies the flowering stalk. Each flower is made up of four little white petals, 

 spotted witli brown, and one large one, wiih fewer spots, o-ii which is a small yelhjvv 

 hood, and opposite to it one like it of a olue colour, on pedicels an inch long, round 

 the top i>f the stalk. It grows on ebonies. 



iO. KODOSUMi. KNOTTY. 



Viacum delphinii jloi-e minimum. Sloanf, v. I, p. 251, t. 148, f. 3. 

 Parasiticum, Jolio sinsidari longo sinuato ; spica assurgenti, ab 

 infimo siuu orta. Browne^ p. 325, 



Leaf single, sub-radical; spadix containing about four flowers. ' 



Roots thick, nunK'rous, filiform, strict, whitish, knee-jointed; stem one-leafeci, 

 thick, round, sheathed, afoot hi",h, thickened towards the roots, knotted. Sheaths 

 closed, alternate, closely surrounding the stem, keeled, streaked, membranaceous, 

 whitish. Leaf, in the middle of the stem, sessile, sheathing, from round awl-shaped, 

 deeply grooved, erect, spotted, thick, fleshy; spadix from the sinus of the base of the 

 leaf, and of the same length with it, erect, round; ^pathes minute, on the spadix and 

 below the flowers, which are from twelve tc fifteen, large, whitish, yellow, sessile. 

 Petals, three outer lanceolate-linear, long, spreading ; two inner linear.- Nectary 

 somewhat funnel-shaped, embracing the column, erect, compressed, bellying at the 

 base, keeled, dilated at top ; lip ovate, with an awl-shaped, striated, veined, spread- 

 ing, whitish, point. Column minute, inclosed within the nectary, keeled, holloived 

 rri front, bearing at top four obhjng, bipartite, pediceiled, anthers, concealed by a 

 four-celled cover. Germ very long, round, filiform ; stigma moistened in front, undet 

 the cavity of the anthers; capsules an inch long, oblong, pendulous, six-grooved, 

 three-valved, many-seeded ; seeds dusty, bristly. This grows near the coast, and 

 flowers inspring. 5'ii'. Browne calls it the lark-spur parasitical satyrium., growing 

 n trees, and^eldoui rising above seven or nine inches in heiglH. 



51. COCHtEATUM. SPOONED. 



"Leaves oblong, double, smooth, streaked, growing on the bulb; scape many- 

 flowered ; nectary cordate. 



Roots filiform, strict, whitish ; leaves broad-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled at the 

 base, compressed, growing on aij oblong, fleshy, smooth, fibrous, succulent, com- 

 pressed, bulb, involved in mem'.jranaceons sheaths ; spathe two-leaved, one less th tra 

 he other, acuminate, at the base of the scape a nong the leaves; soap.^, from the 

 middle of the bulb, solitary, round, erect, with a few minute spathes. Flowers ter- 

 minating, four or five, large, sub-sessile; petals linear, acn.ninale, reflex, yellowish, 

 Mectary lip heart-shaped, blunt, concave, dark blood red, streake i with uhite at the 

 base, yellow at the tip. Column three-cornered, spotted with red at the bi.-e, three- 

 horned at the tip, bearing two pediceiled bipartite anthers ; capsules oblong, acuniinale, 

 pendulous, Nuiive of the mountains. Sro. 



See Vanilla. 



GROUND-TVy. GLE<^HOMA. 



'Cl-14, OR. 1. JJidjiiatnia gymn^spennia. Hai. OB..-^Vt:rlicillafr, 



Y y2 CeNI 



