BLETIA. 



ORCHIDES. 443 



Semper albiflora , lamellis in nervis longitudinalibus labelli cristulis 

 minoribus praedilis. 

 Merida, Moritz. Wagener. 



Rchb. ni. in B. II. '.^82. Santa Marla. 3060'. Nr. 988. Schlim. 

 Rchb. fll. III. 69. Ocanna. Wagener. 



III, Labelli laciniae omnes manifeste limbo undulata^. 



3«. laETIA LILACINA Rich. et Gal. Ann. sc. Nat. 1845. Jan. p. 23. 



Koliis lineaiibiis aculissimis scapo brevioribus; floribus parvulis liia- 

 cinis: labeili iobis lateralibus oblusis, intermedio oblongo obtuso. 



.\Jesico. 

 79 ? BLRTIA ANOMALA. Rich. et Gal. Ann. sc. nat. 1845. Janv. p. 23. 



Scapo pedalis; sepalis purpureis: labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus ob- 

 tusissiinis margine sinuosis, intermedio subrotundo; polliniis 8 in quat- 

 tuor concretis. 



Mexico. 



Obs. Mihi incognita I 



80. BLETIA VERECUNDA (RBr. Hort. Kew. V. 206?) Lindl. (Orch. 121) et herb.! 



Bletiu pulchelld Hort. G. Chr. 1850. 168. 

 Huc: Bletia Shephenlii Hook. B. M. 3319 (N. S. VII!) 34. 



Herianlliio erecto-patenti, sepalis oblongis acutis, petalis obtusissimis 

 undulatis, labelli disco lamellis 5 — 7 reclis undulatis lobo intermedio 

 reflexo lato cuneato bilobo valde crispato , foliis lato-lanceolatis longe 

 acuminatis. Lamellae flavidae, perigonium lilacinum. 



Jamaica received by Mr. Spepherd al Liverpool Gard.-Wenthworih, 

 Ils nearest aff. is with Bletia verecunda (Limod. alturn B. Mag. 930 not of Jacq. 

 Rar, 60.) But there ihe flowers are much smaller, greatly shorter in proportion to 

 the size , very gibbous or almost spurred at the base, ihe sepals much more pa- 

 tent, and very pale on the outside, and the lip has a white .margin: the leavea too 

 are much narrower. — 



Our plant has been cultivated by Mssr. Sphepherd under the name of ,,Limodorum 

 tuberosum'' from an idea perhaps , ihat it was the „L. altum s. tuberosum of Jacq." 

 But that plant I have endeavoured to prove is the same with our Bletia acutipetala 

 (Tab, 3217), and the name tuberosa being equally applicable to other species of the 

 genus, 



Huc: Blelia Sphepherdi U. Rog. XXIV. 1838. Misc, 73.: 

 Flowered lately in the garden of ihe Ilort. Society and I find it is only a dark flow- 

 ered variety of Bletia verecunda, il does not appear to be distinguishable by any cha- 

 racier of importance, 



81. BLETIA HAVANENSIS Lindl. B. Reg. 1838, XXIV, Misc. 35 : 



Scapo simplici foliorum longitudine, sepalis patulis obovatis acutis 

 elamellatis, petalis supra columnam conniventibus ovatis obtusiusculis 

 undulatis, labello subrotundo-ovato cucullato trilobo: laciniis lateralibus 

 obtusis intermediam retusam crispam longiorem basi imbricantibus, 

 cristis tribus lamellatis, versus apicem interruplis, basi evanescentibus, 

 venis duabus utrinque arcuatis varicosis. 



Diff, from B. verecunda in the colour of its flowors, wbich are much paler and its 

 unbranched scape, and in ihe form of its hp, whose crested plates are interrupted 

 about the base of the middle lobe and bounded on each side by a pair of curved 

 varicose vcins. Introd, by Capt. Sutton is 35, addcd lo Sir Charle Lemons coll. at 

 Carclew, wbere it flowered March 1837. 



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