456 ORCHIDACEJE. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 
6. TIPULARIA, Nutt. 
Sepals and petals oblong, spreading. Lip long-spurred, 3-lobed, the lateral 
lobes short and triangular, the middle lobe linear. Spur filiform, ascending. 
Column slender, wingless. Anther lid-like. Pollen-masses 4, stalked, waxy.— _ 
Root tuberous, proliferous, first producing a single ovate leaf, on a sheathed 
petiole, afterward a slender sheathed scape, ending in a long raceme of numer- 
ous greenish flowers. 
1. T. discolor, Nutt.— Shady banks, Florida, and northward. Aug. — 
Scape about 1° high. Leaf 1/~2/ long, acute, somewhat plaited and many- 
nerved, purple beneath. Flowers small, nodding, bractless. Spur about l' 
long. 
7. BLETIA, Ruiz and Pavon. 
* Sepals and petals alike and nearly equal, spreading. Lip spurless, jointed, 
3-lobed, crested on the face. Column free, elongated, semi-terete. Anther 
lid-like, fleshy. ‘Pollen-masses 8, by pairs, with a stalk to each pair, waxy, 
becoming powdery. — Scape from tuberous rootstocks, sheathed or scaly, many- 
flowered. Leaves sheathing the base of the scape, narrow, plaited, sometimes 
wanting. Flowers spicate or racemose, mostly showy. 
1. B. aphylla, Nutt. Leafless; scape stout, terete, tapering into the 
many-flowered spike; sheaths several, short; the upper ones passing into the 
ovate acuminate bracts; flowers spreading, brownish, striped with purple ; 
sepals and petals oblong-lanceolate, oblique; lip concave, emarginate, with a 
6-ridged crest along the middle, the lateral lobes erect. — Rich shaded soil, 
Florida to North Carolina, and westward.. July and Aug. — Root consisting of 
horizohtal, jointed tubers. Scape 19-139 high. Perianth $' long. 
` 2. B. verecunda, Swartz. Scape leafy at the base, many-flowered ; leaves 
lanceolate, plaited, strongly nerved ; petals and sepals greenish, the former con- 
nivent; lip saccate, wavy and furrowed, emarginate. — Open pine barrens, 
Middle and East Florida. July.— Scape 19 - 1]? high. Leaves 6’ — 9' long. 
8. CALOPOGON, R. Brown. 
Sepals unequal, the two lateral ones broader and oblique. Lip (by e 
untwisted ovary) brought to the upper or inner side of the flower, dilated at- 
the apex, bearded on the face, and narrowed into a hinge-like claw. Column 
long, incurved, winged at the apex. Anther terminal, lid-like, sessile. 
masses 2, powdery.— Scape erect from a solid tuber, sheathed at the bast; 
bearing below the middle a single narrow sheathing leaf, and terminated with 4 
loose spike of showy flowers. 
1. C. pulchellus, R. Br. Scape 2-8-flowered ; leaf Jinear-lanceolate, 
erect, keeled, many-nerved ; flowers large, mostly approximate, bright purP?» 
. lateral sepals obliquely ovate, abruptly pointed, shorter than the 2e 
. obtuse petals; lip broadly obcordate, acutely 2-eared at the base; filaments ° 
crest decurrent on the claw, the lower ones purple and united; ov" 
