STELIS 51 



micranthum Sw. in Nov. Act Upsal vi. 84 (1 799). (PI. 7, £. 15-28.) 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On trees and rocks ; in fl. all the year ; Swartz ! Macfadyen ! Blue 

 Mt. Peak, Prixyr ! Mt. Moses, J.P. 23, Morris ! Blue Mt. Peak, Fawcett I 

 New Haven Gap, Moore ! Morse's Gap, 6000 ft. ; Woodcutters Gap near 

 Newcastle, 4000 ft. ; ridge from Newhaven Gap to Vinegar Hill, 4000 ft. ; 

 Greenwich woodland, 4500 ft., Harrisl Fl. Jam. 7537, 7815, 7835, 10,087, 

 10,141. 



Stem 7-12 cm. 1., 1*5-2 mm. br., sometimes as short as 2 or 3 cm., or 

 as long as 15 cm. Sheaths striate, apex truncate, apiculate, generally 

 covering stem, scarious, soon decaying. Leaf lanceolate-oblong or ligu- 

 late, apex obtuse, sometimes minutely toothed, generally somewhat longer 

 than stem, 11 or 12 cm. 1., about 1*5 cm. br., sometimes as short as 7 cm., 

 or as long as 16 cm. Raceme solitary (rarely 2), many-flowered, 12-14 cm. L, 

 rarely longer ; spathaceous bract at base about 12 mm. 1. Bracts sheathing 

 at base, apex rounded, acute or apiculate to shortly acuminate, 1-5-2 m. 1. 

 Flowers : the size of the flower varies considerably : in Swarbz's original 

 specimen the median sepal is 2 3 mm. 1., 1-4-1 -5 mm. br., and the petal 

 -6 mm. 1. and br. ; in Fl, Jam. 7537 the median sepal is 2 5 mm. 1. and br,, 

 and the petal -75 mm. br. ; in Fl. Jam. 7835 the median sepal is 3 mm. 1., 

 2-5 mm. br,, and the petal 1 mm, br. Measurements of parts of the 

 flower from dried specimens are somewhat misleading. In specimens put 

 into spirit when collected (Fl. Jam. 10,087) the median sepal is 3 • 75 mm. 1., 

 3 mm. br., and the sepals are not distinctly keeled on back (petal 

 1'2 mm, br.) ; sepals from the dried specimen (moistened in hot water) 

 measure 3-5 mm. 1., 2-4 mm. br., and are obviously keeled. The flowers 

 from the type specimen, and also from the Marquis of Blandford's specimen 

 figured by Sowerby (J. E. Smith, Exot. Bot. t. 76), are much smaller, but 

 these are evidently not fully developed. Sepals pale green, 3-nerved, the 

 central nerve in the median sepal sometimes forming a dorsal mucro just 

 below apex, lateral nerves generally meeting the central nerve above in 

 lateral sepals, but not always in the median sepal, lateral shorter but as 

 broad or broader. Petals deep purple, sub-quadrangular, upper margin 

 subdeltoid-lunate. Lip deep purple, somewhat like petals but broader 

 above, upper surface semicircular with a narrowly elliptical median 

 depression, with the upper margin lunate. Column deep purple. 



2. S. ophioglossoides Sw. in Schrad. Joiirn. Bot. ii. 239 

 (1799) ; raceme much longer than leaf ; closed flowers 3-cornered ; 

 sepals deltoid-ovate, broader than long, connate nearly to outer 

 basal angle, nerves only slightly prominent below, angles at base 

 and apex somewhat rectangular. — Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1551 ; Lindl. 

 Fol. Orch. Stelis, 7 (in part) not in Orch. Cuh. Wright ; Griseb. loc 

 dt. ; Cogn. op. cit. 387 (in part). S. polystachya Cogn. loc. cit. 

 Ruscusf foliis ovatis petiolatis &c. Plum. PI. Amer. {Burm.) 

 172, 1. 176/. 3 (1758). Epidendrum ophioglossoides Jacq. Enum. 

 PI. Carib. 29 (1760) & Sel. Stirp. 225, t. 133,/. 2, Ed. pict. t. 211 ; 

 Sw. Obs. Bot. 331. E. trigoniflorum Sw. Prodr. 125 (1788) & 

 Icon. ined. t. 49. Dendrobium ophioglossoides Sw. in Nov. Act. 

 Upsal. vi. 83 (1799). (PI. 7, f. 11-U.) Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On trees and rocks; in fl. all the year; Swartz \ J.P. 12, Mor>-isl 

 J.P, 2024, Syme ! near Morse's Gap, 5000 ft., Fawcett ! near Moy Hall, 

 Sullivan ! Greenhill, Moore ! Mabess Kiver, 3000 ft. ; Cinchona, Harris I 

 Fl. Jam. 7764a, 7764b. 



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