52 ORCHIDACE^ 



Plant 15-65 cm. high, stout or slender, leafy. Roots elongated, 

 fibrous. Leaves linear-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5-20 cm. 

 long, 5-20 mm. broad. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute, nearly 

 equalling or exceeding the ovaries. Flowers 12 mm. across, in 

 loose or dense racemes, often numerous. Racemes 4-28 cm. long, 

 1.5-3 cm. through. Lateral sepals about 6 mm. long, 3 mm. 

 across, ovate-lanceolate. Upper sepal 5 mm. long, apiculate, nearly 

 orbicular, concave. Petals bipartite ; posterior division erect, 

 falcate, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4 mm. long ; anterior division 

 longer, setaceous, acute, falcate, curved, erect. Labellum tripar- 

 tite to within 1.5 mm. of the base, strongly deflexed, 5-7 mm. 

 long ; lateral divisions nearly parallel with the broader central 

 one, setaceous. Spur filiform, 9-13 mm. long, about as long as the 

 ovary, variable. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



I have seen specimens from localities here named : 



Georgia : Fresh marshes of Altamaha River, just below Darien, 

 Mcintosh Co., September 17, 1903, E. M. Harper (no. 

 2002). 



Florida: Low pine woods, Oviedo, Orange Co., May 31, 1904, 

 A. A. Eaton (no. 1025). — Ft. Lauderdale, Dade Co., Novem- 

 ber 19, 1903, A. A. Eaton, 



Cuba : 1860-64, C. Wright (nos. 3305, 3307). 



The species has also been ascribed to the following localities : 



North Carolina : Chapman, Fl. S. U. S. 461. — M. A. Curtis, 

 Geo!. & Nat. Hist. Surv. JV. C, Bot. 54. 



South Carolina : " I have found it also near Beaufort and Charles- 

 ton." — Elliott, loc. cit. 



Alabama : Mohr, loc. cit. 



Louisiana : Small, loc. cit. 



Antilles and tropical America in general : Kranzlin, Orch. Gen. 

 Sp. 1 : 318 ; Cogniaux, loc. cit. 



