432 ORGHIDES. 



BLETFa 



This cliarmingr specics grows on single trees in ihe Savannah , helween San Andres 

 and ihe Saliadero. The flowers are large, pale rose colour, the pseudohulbs are 

 smail and compressed ; the leaves are fleshy. lanceolaie, toothed. (N. 1805). 



This is probably the saine as Cattleya ? domingensis. I have not seen ihe 

 leaves. 



Huc : Laelia Lindcnii Lindl. Ramon de Sagra hist. Cul. tab. 82. 



42. DLETIA DOMLNGENSIS. Catlleya dommgensis LO. 11. B. Reg. XXX. 1844. sub 5. 

 Caule brevi oblongo annulato squamoso, folio ovali-oblongo coriaceo, 



scapo terminali longissimo stricto apice racemoso 7—8 floro, sepalis 

 lineari-lanceolalis acutis, petalis oblongis obtusiusculis triplo angusti- 

 oribus , labello indiviso obovato obluso plicato crispo emarginato cu- 

 cullato. 



St. Domingo. 



In ihe absence of sufflcient evidence, as to the species, which is No. 231. of Jacgers 

 coll. it may be conjeciured lo he a Laelia lather than a Cattleya. Il is found on 

 longwood trees is ihe wood near Miragoane in St. Domingo, (lor. April. 



Laeliopsis Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. G. III. 105. : 

 Omnino Callleya, nisi quod flores membranacei, nec non venae la- 

 belli barbalae, 



L. Domingensis : pseudobulbis 2 pbyllis, foliis oblongis coriaceis ob- 

 tusis, scapo gracili nudo apice sub Sfloro , labelli 2 lobi laciniis denti- 

 culalis undulatis recurvis, venis centralibus barbatis. 



Cattleya domingensis LO. 118. — Broughthonia lilacina Henfrey Gard. M.ng. 

 Bot. Vol. III. p. 201. wilh a flg. . 



Laelia ? no — because it has 4 pollenmasses. Broughionia? no, for through its flower 

 is deeply cunicuiate, yet it has not a long exiurnal adnate spur and decurved sepals. 

 Epidendrum ? — no , for il wants the unguiculate lip more or less adnate to the 

 colunin. Cattleya? still no , alhough we once thought il one ; for the flowers are 

 membranous, ihe veins 6f the lip beerded , aiid the habit quite diffe-ent. We see no 

 meens of providing a flxed station for this and a few allied plants , except by giving 

 them a genus to themselves , the essential features of which shall consist in what 

 has been above proposed. There is no doubt that Caltleya, Epidendrum, Brough- 

 ihonia are so very neariy related, ihat on more technical grounds they might be all 

 placed in Ihe same genera. but their habits are very different and the mind is un- 

 able to recoiicile itself to their union. As lo Broughtonia, is, we disregard its cucul- 

 lale lip and manifest cxternal adnate spur, there is litlle lo divide it from Epidcndrum, 

 the majority of whose species have a cuniculate ovary, and in the case of E. vesi- 

 catum even'a spur partially visible ; or fiom Cattleya excepi ihe lough coriaceous 

 .«qualiiy of ihe lip and ihe adhesion of ihe sepais of Broughtonia to ihe face of 

 iis exlernal s|tur. Upon grounds of ihe same nature as those, which separate those 

 geneial must Laeliopis be sustained . when ihe mutual differencc among the 4 ge- 

 iiera may be tabulaled thus : 



4.abellum calcaratum sepalis calcari adnatis Brougthonia 



calcaralum cuniculatum tantum unguiculatum 



ungue saepissime coluninae adnato Epidendrum 



sessile convolutum, 



coriaceurn imberbe Cattleya 



ineijibranaceum barbatum Laeliopis 



L. will receive L. Lindenii, Broughtonia chinensis, Epidendrum cuben.se. — 



Mackenzie, — near .Miragoane. Jaeger. 



, Ods. Haec omnia pulchre dicla. Sed pollinia adsuiil octona. Bchb. fll. 



43. BLETIA ORTGIESIANA Rch. 01. in Otlo Ilamb. Garlcnzg. |1860. p. 420. 



