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Ind. 642. Cardambmum minus pseudo-asphodeli foliis Sloane 

 Cat. 61 & Hist. i. 166, t. 103, /. 3. Neottia speciosa Jacq. 

 Collect. Hi. 174 (1789) & Ic. PI. Bar. Hi. t. 600 (1786-1793) ; Sw. 

 Fl. Ind. Occ. 1400 ; Hook. Exot. Fl tt. 3 c& 4 ; Salish. Ic. ined. fol. 

 586, 587. 



On banks and in rocky places in damp woods ; in fl. Oct.-Feb. ; 

 Guanaboa, Sloane, Herb. iii. 38, iv. 115* I Shakespear ! Bancroft ! Browns 

 Town, Purdie ! Fairfield, Wullschlaegel, 1075 1 Mt. Moses, 2500 ft., J.P. 

 2059, Sijme ! Clydesdale, Moore I Cinchona, 5000 ft. ; Holly Mount, Mt. 

 Diabolo, 2600 ft.; Harris] Fl. Jam. 7632, 7640, 7757, 8872, 9898.— 

 Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, 

 Venezuela. 



Plant 9 in. to nearly 2 ft. high, with thick, clustered roots. Scape 

 erect, somewhat stout, 2-5-6 dm. 1. Leaves acute, with several nerves, 

 6-17 cm. 1., 3 • 5-6 cm. br. , stalks 3 • 5-10 cm. 1. (incl. sheath) . Sheaths several at 

 base, 5-7 above, membranous, lax; free portion lanceolate, acuminate ; upper 

 red ; 4-8 cm. 1. Spike erect, dense, somewhat one-sided, generally short, 

 4-11 cm. 1. Bracts 3*5-2 cm. 1. Ovary oblong, tapering to base, oblique 

 at apex, 3-ribbed, purplish. Flowers numerous. Sepals slightly spreading 

 at apex, nerves 3, sometimes branching ; lateral oblong-lanceolate to 

 narrowly lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 1*6-2 cm. 1., about 4*5 mm. br. ; 

 median oblong, subacuminate, to triangular-lanceolate, concave, 1*25-1*5 

 cm. 1., about 4*5 mm. br. Petals 3-nerved, oblong tapering to an acuta 

 apex, or linear-lanceolate, slightly falcate, oblique at base and there 

 attached both to median and lateral sepals, 1*25-1*5 cm. 1., 2*5-3 mm. br. 

 Lip 7-nerved, pubescent on the disk, shortly pubescent on the lower face, 

 somewhat rhomboidal, with a recurved oblong acute or lanceolate apex, 

 concave, slightly saccate at each side at base, 1*25-1*85 cm. 1., about 

 5 cm. br. Column 3*5 mm. 1. from junction with lip to attachment of 

 anther, 1*1 cm. to apex of rostellum; rostellum obovate, with a long 

 beaked apex (beak 3*5 mm. 1.), pubescent below the stigma, 2-winged below, 

 wings united with stalk of anther. Anther 5-6 mm. 1., ovate-lanceolate, 

 shortly stalked. 



2. S. lanceolatus Griseh. loc. cit. ; plant with glandular- 

 pubescent hairs ; leaves glabrous, 1 or 2, ligulate or elliptical- 

 lanceolate, often disappearing before flowering ; bracts lanceolate 

 to linear-lanceolate, long acuminate, nerves 3, lateral branching, 

 about as long as the ovary ; perianth dirty yellow, between h and 

 J in. 1. ; spur not more than half as long as ovary, bluntly oblong, 

 apex obtuse, almost wholly adnate to ovary, not more than about 

 1 mm. free. — S. orchioides Lindl. op. cit. 477 (in part). Helleborine 

 purpurea &c. Plum. PI. Amer. (Burm.) 176, t. 181,/. 2. Lirao- 

 dorum lanceolatum Auhl. PI. Guian. ii. 821 (1775). Satyrium 

 Orchioides Sw. Prodr. 118 (1788). Neottia Orchioides Sw. Fl. 

 Ind. Occ. 1411, t. 2S, fig. a. h. (1806). (PI. 3, f. 22.) 



On banks amongst grass; in fl. and fr., March and April; Mac- 

 fadyen ! Distin ! Port Royal Mts., Purdie ! Fairfield, Wullschlaegel, 1382 

 (in part) ! Mt. Moses, 2800 ft., J.P. 2400, Syme \ below Vinegar Hill, 

 Portland, 3000 ft. ; Mt. Airy, 2000 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7876.— Cuba, 

 Bahamas, Hispaniola, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. 

 Lucia, St. Vincent, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad, Mexico, Guatemala, 

 Colombia, Brazil, Argentine, Paraguay. 



