14 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



jecting points, 3 • 5 njm. J., about 1 mm. br. ; spur tapering 

 towards apex. — Ames op. cit. iv. 276. Type in Herb. Kew. 

 (PL 2, f. 4-7.) 



Growing with H. alata Hook, in marshy soil, near Mandeville, 

 Purdie I 



Plant 12 in. high, glabrous. Stem erect, leafy, covered by leaf-sheaths, 

 about 2 dm. 1., 3 mm. br. Leaves lanceolate, thin, 9-nerved, acute, 

 passing into the bracts above, blade to 8*5 cm. 1., to 2 cm. br. Bace^ne 

 somewhat laxly jnany-fld, about 10 cm. 1. Bracts, lower 1-3 cm. 1. 

 Pedicel about 3 mm. 1. Ovary about 1 cm. 1. Floivers green, erect. 

 Sepals median, without nerves, suborbicular, very obtuse, apiculate, about 

 S'5 mm. 1. and br. Petals reticulate-2-nerved, with a projecting lobe on 

 the anterior side near the base, 3*5 mm. 1., about 1 mm. br. Lip linear- 

 Ijgulate, vsdth a small projecting lobe just above the narrow base, margin 

 revolute, simple, about 5*5 mm. 1., about 1*2 rnm. br. Sp>ur slender, 

 compressed, nearly as long as ovary, about 1 cm. 1. Stigmatic processes 

 yery short, capitate, glandular ; anther-canals ascending, about twice as 

 long as processes. 



Differs from H. alata Hook, in the texture and venation of the leaves ; 

 in the flowers being about half the size; in the form of the sepals and 

 petals, and the relatively longer lip. Diifers from the Brazilian species, 

 H. quadrata Lindl., in form of petals, length of spur, which is 1*5 cm. 1. 

 in H. quadrata, and in other details. 



8. H. tPOyana Fawc. & Benzie op. cit. 264 ; bracts ovate- 

 lanceolate, subacuminate, like the leaves at base of raceme, 

 lowest longer than flower, upper shorter than ovary ; lateral 

 sepals reticulate-nerved, falcately oblong-ovate, obtuse, the nerve 

 on the lower face projecting as an apiculus just below the apex, 

 7 mm. 1., 3*5 mm. br. ; petals oblong, retuse, oblique at base and 

 rather broader there than at the apex; spur increasing in size 

 upwards from a slender base. — Ames op. cit. iv. 260. (PI. 2, 

 f. 8-12.) 



In damp shady forest; in fl,, Nov.; near Troy, 2500 ft., Harris \ 

 Fl. Jam. 10,432. 



Plant somewhat robust, 2 ft, high. Stem leafy, 3 dm. 1. Leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, reticulate-ll-15-nerved, passing into bracts above, about 

 10 cm. 1., about 2*5 cm. br. Baceme densely-fld., 30 cm. 1. Bracts 

 8 '6-1 -2 cm. 1., l-3-'6 cm. br. Pedicels short. Sepals reticulate-nerved, 

 median ovate-suborbicular, very obtuse, 6 mm. 1., 5 mm. br. ; lateral 

 spreading, 7 mm. 1., 3*5 mm. br. Petals with an obsolete lobe near base 

 anteriorly, 5 mm. 1., 2*3 mm. br. Lip linear-ligulate, angled at the base, 

 7*5-8 mm. 1., 1-5-1 '75 mm. br. near apex, 1-5-2 mm. br. near base. 

 Spur pendulous, slightly curved, shorter than the stalked ovary, 9 mm. 1. 

 Stigmatic processes ahoit, compressed; anther-canals about as long, slightly 

 projecting upwards. 



Since the publication of H. troyana, we have had the opportunity, 

 through the courtesy of Prof. I. Urban, of comparing flowers from the 

 type specimen of H. eustachya Roichb. f. in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. iii. 

 274 (1885) from Porto Rico (Sintenis, no. 511b) ; this differs from H. troyana 

 in being smaller, with thinner, non-clavate spur, and much smaller lip. 

 When describing H. troyana we compared it with H. Sanhqrnii Ames, 

 which we suggested might prove identical with J3". eustachya. Mr. Oakes 

 Ames now [op. cit. 257) refers H. Sanhornii to H. eustachya, and considers 

 H. troyana as probably the same species. 



