26 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



spirally twisted, somewhat dense, puberulous, 8-13 cm. 1. Flowers on 

 one side of spike, nodding, white, perianth J-J in. 1. Bracts puberulous, 

 ovate, subacuminate, as long as, or longer than, the ovary, 6-7 mm. 1. 

 Ovary pubescent, broader above. Sepals slightly puberulous, white, 

 3-nerved, lateral oblique at base, oblong tapering to an obtuse apex, 

 5 mm. 1., nearly 2 mm. br. ; median elliptical, obtuse, 4 • 5-6 mm. 1., 2 mm. br. 

 Petals 3-nerved, oblong, apex rounded, slightly tapering to base, as long as 

 the median sepal, white. Lip 5*5 mm. 1,, 8*75 mm. br. Column vevy 

 short, green ; rostellum and clinandrium connected by broad wings, 

 rostellum on removal of linear gland with poUinia, 2-dentate. Anther 

 ovate, cordate, somewhat acute, sessile, brown. Capsule 4-6 mm. 1., 3-4 

 mm. br. 



2. S. elata L. C. BicJi. he. cit. ; leaves glabrous, radical, long 

 stalked, oval, elliptical or oblong, erect, somewhat abruptly acute, 

 tapering somewhat abruptly into the stalks, which are rather 

 flattish-concave, dilated and clasping at base ; lip, lower half 

 somewhat fiddle-shaped with rounded corners, 5-nerved, abruptly 

 contracted above into a neck and then expanding into a 

 roundish or transversely elliptical apical lobe, minutely curled 

 and crenulate, rather broader than the lower half, base slightly 

 saccate with a pair of short calli, white, faintly tinged with pink 

 or wdth faint tinge of brown at apex and striped with green 

 about middle. — Lindl. op. cit. 470 ; Griseb. op. cit. 641 ; Gogn. op. 

 cit. 336 (excl. syn. Sloane and Browne) & under S. bicolor Lindl. 

 (as regards Jamaican spec). Satyrium elatum Sw. Prodr. 119 

 (1788). Neottia elata Sw. in Vet. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 226 & Fl. 

 Ind. Dec. 1403; Bot. Mag. t. 2026. P. spiranthoides Griseh. Gat. 

 Glib. 269 (1866) (non Lindl. nee Griseb. Fl.). (PI. 3, f. 10-14.) 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On stone walls, on rocky banks and in peaty soil in woodland ; 

 in fl. and fr. Feb.- April ; Macfayden ! Distin ! Manchester and St. Ann, 

 Purdie ! Bethabara, Wullsclilaegel, 1073, 1074 ! Prioi- ! near Cinchona 

 J.P. 36 ; Portland Gap, 5550 ft. J.P. 235 (somewhat abnormal) ; Mt. Moses, 

 2500 ft. J.P. 2191 ; lowlands, J.P. 472 ; Morris ! near Browns Town, Miss 

 T. M. Barrett \ Green River, Sullivan I Knapdale, near Browns Town, 

 1000 ft. ; near Mabess Eiver, 4000 ft. ; near Tweedside, south St. Andrew, 

 2500 ft. ; near John Crow Peak, 5500 ft. ; Wallenford, 2500 ft. ; Holly 

 Mount, Mt. Diabolo, 2400 ft. ; Newhaven Gap, 560O ft. ; between Cinchona 

 and Morse's Gap, 4900 ft. ; near Morse's Gap, 4500 ft. ; Iron Face, Chester 

 Vale, 3500 ft. ; Harrisl Fl. Jam. 7077 (partly), 7631, 7845, 7856, 7857, 7882, 

 8910, 10,458, 10,492, 10,497.— Bahamas, Cuba (Wright 624, 3293 in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit.), Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Tortola, St. 

 Martin, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Grenada, Trinidad, Venezuela, 

 B. Guiana, Brazil, Argentine. 



Plant 6 in. to 2 ft. high, with clustered, thick, fleshy root-fibres. Scape 

 erect, somewhat slender, pubescent above, glabrate below, 1*5-4 dm. 1. 

 Leaves 2-6 ; blade 3-13 cm. 1., 1-5-5 -5 cm. br. ; stalks 2-7 cm. 1. Sheaths 

 5-7, free portion oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 7-1 cm. 1. Spike 

 erect, loosely spirally twisced, sometimes somewhat secund, puberulous, 

 2-18 cm. 1. Flowers very shortly stalked, nodding, perianth ^-J in. 1., 

 green or brownish-green. Bracts glabrate, dotted, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, longer than the ovary, 8-12 mm. 1., about 2 mm. br. Ovary 



