SG rum. tellur. 



drnm. Probably several sp. mixt. compare 

 Epid, fuscatum^ anceps, secundum Slc. the 

 main type is 



320. Tritelandra fuscata^ Raf. Fol. obi. 

 acutis, caule basi et apice subnudo, petalis obo- 

 vatis, label, fiabellato lobulato — Antilles, flow- 

 ers small greenish brown. His Epid, fuscatum 

 Sw. W. often figured by Sm. Andr. Lod. 472. 

 Bot. reg. 67, Bot. mag. 2844. Is the E, anceps 

 Jaq. Lod. 887, the same ? and E. secundum 

 Sw ? as Hooker says ; but he is so much in the 

 habit of confusing Sp. that these must be veri- 

 fied again. 



321. Sacoila, R. (bag hollow) Orchidea 

 diff. Neottia, Petalis connivens teretis, 3 infer- 

 nis basi coalitis saccatis unicalcaratis, labello 

 indiviso, columna teres truncata aptera, stylo 

 conico, anthera liaearis 2pollen postice posita. 

 Caide squamosa^ vaginato Jl. spicatis — Very 

 distinct by habit, united petals and style. Type 

 Sacoila lurida Raf. {Neottia aphyla Hook. b. 

 m. 2797) Tota rubescens fuscata, squamis 

 acutis vaginatis, spica paucifl. fl. nutans, labello 

 ligulato obtuso integro. Antilles, whole color 

 lurid redish brown, flowers 5-8 large shaped as 

 in Spiranthes, but calcarate not spiral : habit 

 of Orobanche. 



322. Neottia, of authors. They have mixt 

 in this Genus a crowd of heterogenous plants, 

 and so many have been removed that now we 

 hardly know the real types of it. The charac- 

 ters of all the authors are quite different. Many 

 Sp. of Ophrys, Orchis, Serapias, Satyrium, 

 Limodorum, S^c. have been united thereto, and 

 the Aristotelia of Loureiro. While the Genera 

 Spiranthes and Goodyera have lately been 

 distinguished. All the Sp. must be examined 



