30 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



subulate, lower portion somewhat ovate, very concave, somewhat 

 cordate at base. — Physurus jamaicensis Fawc. & Bendle in Journ. 

 Bot. xlvii. 264 (1909). (PI. 3, f. 20.) 



In shady woods; in fl. Oct.; Olive River, near Christiana, 3000 ft., 

 Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 10,472. 



Plant glabrous, about 8 in. high. Stem about 1^ dm. 1. Leaves, blade 

 3-5-5 cm. 1., 11-16 mm. br. ; stalk with sheath 7-17 mm. 1. ; highest leaf, 

 blade 1*2-1 '7 cm. 1. Spike many-fiowered, cylindrical, about 4 cm. 1. 

 Bracts ovate-triangular, acuminate, 1-nerved, as long as the ovary, 6-4 

 mm. 1. Ovary slender. Flowers spreading, (with the spur) about ^ in. 1. 

 Sepals spotted, 1-nerved; median lanceolate, obtuse, margin undulate 

 above the middle, concave, 3*2 mm. 1., 1mm. br. ; lateral oblong-elliptical, 

 obtuse, slightly falcate, 3 • 4 mm. 1., 1-1 • 1 mm. br. Petals spotted, 1-nerved, 

 linear-lanceolate, margin undulate, 3-1 mm. 1., -75 mm. br. Lip, middle 

 portion about 1 • 4 mm. 1., 1'6 mm. br., middle lobe -75 mm. 1., lower 

 portion about 1 mm. 1. Spur roundish-elliptical, about half as long as 

 ovary, 1-6-1 -8 mm. 1., 1-1-3 mm. br. 



8. WULLSCHLJEGELIA Reichb. f. 



Terrestrial leafless herb, with clustered fibrous roots slightly 

 thickened. Stem simple, very slender, with a few small scales. 

 Flowers very small, subsessile in a lax spike. Bracts very small. 

 Sepals thin, erect, connivent ; median free ; lateral a little broader, 

 united at the base into a saccate chin. Petals similar to the 

 median sepal, but smaller. Lip on the upper side of the flower, 

 sessile at the base of the column, erect, broad, concave, un- 

 divided, produced at the base into a sac within the chin of the 

 sepals. Column very short ; stigma entire, beneath the short 

 broad erect rostellum ; clinandrium short. Anther erect, sessile, 

 ovate, scarcely acuminate, with distinct cells ; pollinia powdery- 

 granular, affixed to a small gland of the rostellum. Capsule 

 small, ovoid, erect. 



Species 3, natives of the West Indies and Brazil. 



W. aphylla BeicJih. f. in Bot. Zeit. (1863) 131 ; Griseb. Fl. 

 Br. W. Ind. 639 ; Cogn. in Fl. Bras. Hi. pt. 4, 242, t. 57, /. 1 ; & 

 in Symh. Ant. vi. 351. — Cranichis aphylla Sw. Prodr. 120 (1788), 

 & Fl. Ind. Occ. Hi. 1421, t. 29,/. 1, & Ic. ined. t. 21 ; Lindl. Gen. 

 d Sp. Orch. 450. (PL 3, f. 23, 24.) Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



In damp deep-shady woods ; in fl. Sept., Oct. ; mountains of Clarendon, 

 Swartz ! Bethabara, Wtillschlaegel, 1071 ! St. Ann, Purdie ! — Cuba, 

 Dominica, Brazil, Paraguay. 



Plant 8-14 in. high, with numerous, very long roots, thickened near 

 base. Stem erect, slender, leafless, puberulous, 16-24 cm. 1., with numerous 

 minute scales. Scales triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, half-clasping, 

 4-5 mm. 1. Raceme somewhat long, many -flowered, 4*5-13 cm, 1. (in 

 fruit). Pedicels 2 mm. to 3 mm. 1. (in fruit). Bracts similar to the scales, 



