96 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



Plant 6-8 in. high. Pseudobulbs on short many-jointed clustered 

 branches of a creeping rhizome, covered with three or four scarious sheaths, 

 of which one is longer than pseudobulb, ellipsoidal, 2-2-5 cm. 1. Leaves 

 linear-ligulate, obtuse, muoronate, 9-15 cm. 1., 6-9 mm. br. Peduncle 

 many-jointed, covered with bracts, 7-10 cm. 1. Bracts, sterile and floral 

 similar, folded together and compressed, linear-lanceolato, acuminate, 

 12-15 mm. 1. Ovary smooth, 8-10 mm. 1. Pedicel 2 mm. 1. Flowers, 

 perianth about J in. 1. Sepals 5-nerved, lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 

 8-9 mm. 1., 2-3 mm. br., lateral slightly falcate. Petals oblanceolate, acute, 

 3-nerved, 6-6*5 mm. 1., 2-2-5 mm. br. Lip, margin undulate, nearly as 

 long as petals, 5 -5-6 mm. 1., 2 mm. br. Column 4 mm. 1., thicker upwards, 

 slightly winged at the sides ; clinandrium 5-toothed ; anthers 3, the lateral 

 anthers apparently somewhat aborted, obtuse at apex and sides. Capsule 

 narrowly ellipsoidal, with three shallow keels, very shortly beaked, 

 14-15 mm. 1., 5 mm. br. 



22. E. subaquilum Lindl. in Bot. Beg. xxxii.suh. t. 64 (1846) ; 

 pseudobulbs with one leaf and panicle longer than, or about equal 

 to, leaf ; lip undivided, broadly ovate above claw ; column almost 

 free. — Lindl. Fol. Orch. Epid. 5. E. Harrisii Fawc. in Symh. 

 Ant. i. 291 (1899). 



On trees; in fl. Jan., Feb., in fr. March; near Bath, J.P. 4, Mo7risl 

 Bridge Hill, above Gordon Town, 1500 ft., Harris ! M. Jam. 5583, 7645, 

 7858, 10,422. — Mexico or Guatemala. 



Plant 8-12 in. high. Pseudobulbs densely clustered, with three or four 

 scarious sheaths, soon splitting into ribbons, of which two are longer than 

 the pseudobulb, ovoid, 2-2*5 cm. 1., about 1 cm. br. Leaves linear- 

 ligulate, obtuse, obliquely emarginate, 8-19 cm. 1., 3 '5-6 mm. br. Scape 

 slender, paniciilate, 16-27 cm. 1. Bracts sterile, small, few, distant, 

 sheathing, adpressed, triangular, acute or obtuse, 4-6 mm. 1. ; floral 

 smaller, spreading, subulate. Ovary about as long as the pedicel, about 

 4 mm, 1. Flowers greenish-yellow striped with reddish-brown, perianth 

 J-J in. 1. Sepals 3-nerved, linear-lanceolate, somewhat acute, 8-9 mm. 1., 

 2 ram. br., median slightly narrower. Petals 1-nerved, linear, 7-8 mm. 1., 

 less than 1 mm. br. Lip embracing the column, disk with three calli, as 

 long as the sepals. Column 4-5 mm. 1,, slightly thicker above, 2-edged ; 

 clinandrium with two short rounded lobes. Capsule ellipsoidal, 10-11 

 mm. 1., 5-6 mm. br. 



23. E. bletioides Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 615 (1864) ; pseudo- 

 bulbs with two (?) leaves and a scape longer than leaf; lip 

 undivided, concave, elliptical, pointed, with two linear crests 

 below the middle, claw very short ; column free. 



Hanover, Purdie ! near Browns Town, Miss T. M. Barrett (in Herb. 

 Kew.) ! 



Plant 1-lJ ft. high. Pseudobulbs ovate-lanceolate, 3-5 cm. 1. Leaves 

 fleshy, oblong, apex rounded, 12-15 cm. 1., about 2-5 cm. br. Scape with 

 flowers distant in a spreading panicle, or racemose. Bracts, sterile 

 distant, short, adpressed-sheathing, blunt, about 1 cm. 1.; floral short, 

 broadly clasping, acute, much shorter than the pedicel, 3 mm. 1. or less. 

 Flowers, perianth ^ in. 1. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, 12-13 mm. 1. 

 Petals oblong to slightly oblanceolate, acute, as long as sepals. Column 

 obovate, sharply 3-dentate at the broad summit, 7 mm. 1. Capsule 

 (immature) spindle-shaped, keeled, 2*5 cm. 1. 



