86 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



three leaves ; lip purple, whitish round column, with conspicuous 

 purple radiating veins, rarely yellow, on the upper side of flower, 

 undivided, shell-shaped, cordate, broadly roundish, apiculate, 

 with two calli at base ; column connate with lip to about the 

 middle. — Jacq. Ic. PI. Bar. Hi. t. 605 ; Andreios Bot. Bep. t. 13 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 572 ; Griseh. op. cit. 616 ; Cogn. inSymh. Ant. iv. 175. 

 Viscum caryophylloides &c. Cateshy Nat, Hist. Carol, ii. 88 t. 88. 

 Helleborine cochleato flore Plum. PI. Amer. (Burm.) 9, t. 185, /. 2. 



On trees and rocks ; in fl. throughout year ; Swartz 1 FairlBleld, 

 Wullschlaegel, 1064 bis ! Newcastle Road, Prior ! St. Ann (lip yellow), 

 Steer \ J.P. 10, 2153, Morris \ Symel Green River, G. Nichols \ Silver 

 HiU ; Chester Vale, 3000 ft. ; Vinegar Hill, 4000 ft. ; Harris 1 near Radnor, 

 Miss B. Gossetl Moneague, Mrs. Balston\ Fl. Jam. 7676, 8000, 10,461. 

 — Cuba, Bahamas, Florida, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, 

 B. Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela. 



Plant 1-2 ft. high. Pseudobulb 9-16 cm. 1,, with a few rather large 

 scarious sheaths, soon decaying. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 2-3 dm. 1., 2-3 5 cm. br. Baccme 2-5 dm. 1., with few or several flowers, 

 longer than the leaf ; spathe at base 7-14 cm. 1. Bracts small, triangular- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 5-12 mm. 1. Flowers stalked, perianth 1 in. and 

 more 1., lip about ^ in. 1. Pedicels 1-2 cm. 1. Ovary 3-cornered, about 



I cm. 1. Sepals linear-lanceolate from a broad base, acute or acuminate, 

 pale green or greenish-white with one or two purple spots at base, 

 pendulous, 2 '5-4 -2 cm. 1., 8-5 mm. br. Petals narrowly oblanceolate, 

 otherwise like sepals, but shorter and narrower. Lip 12-20 mm. 1. 

 Column purple below, white above, short, about 6 mm. 1., thicker above ; 

 clinandrium with three obtuse lobes. Caps^tle ellipsoidal, with three 

 broad wings, recurved, about 4 cm. 1. 



4. E. spondiadum Beichh. f. in Bot. Zeit. x. 731 (1852); 

 pseudobulb with one or two small joints at base, cylindrical, 

 sometimes slightly larger at base, with one leaf ; lip reddish- 

 purple with cream-coloured or yellowish -green margin, on the 

 upper side of flower, cordate, broadly ovate with obscure lateral 

 lobes, apex apiculate, two calli at base running up to a circular 

 callus on the lower part of the disk, and level with top of 

 column ; column connate with lip to about the middle. — Hooh.f. 

 in Bot. Mag. <. 7273. E. variegatum Hart in Gard. Chron. xxvi. 



II (1886) (non Boole.). 



On trees and rocks; in fl. and fr. Nov.-Feb. ; Coldspring; Whitfield 

 Hall ; J.P. 245 ; Morris ! Clydesdale, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7866.— Costa Rica. 



Plant 12-16 in. high. Pseudobulbs clustered along a creeping rhizome, 

 10-17 cm. 1., with two somewhat large scarious sheaths, soon decaying. 

 Leaves ligulate, obtuse, 2-3 dm. 1., 3-3*5 cm. br. Baceme 8-11 cm. 1., with 

 a few or several flowers, much shorter than the leaf, spathe at base 3*5- 

 4-5 cm. 1. Bracts small, triangular, obtuse, 3-4 mm. 1. Flowers shortly 

 stalked, perianth more than J in. 1., lip about ^ in. br., but not so long. 

 Pedicels 4-6 mm. 1. Ovary 3-winged, about 1 cm. 1. Sepals somewhat 

 fleshy, oblong, with an acute apex, creamy-white or greenish-yellow tinted 

 with reddish-purple, 13-15 mm. 1., 3*5-4 mm. br. Petals 7-nerved, some- 

 what fleshy, oblanceolate, acute, creamy-white or greenish-yellow with a 

 reddish-purple blotch in the centre, 11-15 mm. 1., 4-4*5 mm. br. Lip 

 about 11 mm. 1. from junction with column. Column short, about 5 mm. 



