100 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



Sto. in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 72 (1799) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1463. 

 Isochilus teretifolium Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 112 (1831). Type 

 in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On trees and rocks; in fl. Aug., in fr. Oct., Nov. ; mountains, Swartzl 

 J.P. 2054, Morris \ near Chester Vale, Wattl Cinchona, 5000 ft.; Mt. 

 Moses, 3000 ft.; Greenwich, 4500 ft.; Harris] Fl. Jam. 7627, 7778, 

 10,142.— Cuba. 



Plant 6-11 in. high. Stems 15-28 cm. 1., numerous, clustered, some- 

 what robust, many-jointed, covered with sheaths below, naked above 

 and somewhat compressed. Leaves rigid, semiterete, obtuse, jointed to. 

 the sheath, 2-4*5 cm. 1., on lower half or two-thirds of stem, one leaf with 

 very much abbreviated sheath at apex. Peduncle solitary, terminal, short, 

 one-flowered, 7 mm. 1. Bracts at base of peduncle, four spathaceous bracts 

 outside and two sheathing bracts inside, about 8 mm. 1. Flower yellowish- 

 green, perianth about J in. 1. Sepals 12 mm. 1,, 16 mm. br., fleshy, 

 linear, tapering towards the thickened obtusely acute apex, somewhat 

 convex. Petals half as long as sepals, 6-7 mm. 1., 1*5 mm. br., stalked, 

 elliptical, thickened at the rounded apex, 3-nerved, with the median nerve 

 forming a keel, green. Lip shorter than sepals, from junction with 

 column 8 mm. 1., about 2 mm. br., clawed, lower half of limb broadening 

 upwards, concave, disk 3-nerved with a median keel at base, above 3-edged 

 and thickened. Column shorter than petals, 5 mm. 1., 2- winged at apex. 

 Capsule ellipsoidal-spindle-shaped. 



31. BROUGHTONIA R. Br. 



Epiphytic herbs, with ovoid or globose pseudobulbs, which 

 are covered with a few sheaths, and have one or two leaves at 

 the apex. Leaves leathery or fleshy, oblong or elongate. 

 Peduncles terminal, with adpressed sheaths. Raceme lax, 

 simple or sparingly branched. Flowers medium-sized or rather 

 large, shortly stalked. Bracts small, scale-like. Sepals equal, 

 free, somewhat spreading. Petals larger than the sepals. Lip 

 sessile at the base of the column, free from it, erect, broad, 

 embracing the column. Spur adnate to ovary, long, slender. 

 Column several times shorter than the sepals, erect, broadly 

 2- winged ; clinandrium with short teeth. Anther terminal, 

 opercular, incumbent, convex, 4-celled ; pollinia 4, waxy, in 

 two pairs, ovate, equal, compressed from the side, connected by 

 a granular- viscous appendage. Capsule ovoid, beaked with the 

 neck of the ovary. 



Species 2, natives of the West Indies. 



Flowers crimson, ^-nearly 1 inch 1 1. B. sanguinea. 



Flowers lilac, 1-lJ inch 1 2. B. domingensis. 



1. B. sanguinea B. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 217 

 (1813); flowers crimson, J to nearly 1 in. 1.; lip cordate at base, 

 glabrous on disk. — Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 118; Hook, in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3076. B. coccinea Hooh. in Bot. Mag. t. 3536 (1836). 

 Viscum radice bulbosa minus &c. Sloane Cat. 119 & Hist. i. 250, 

 ^t. 121, /. 2. Epidendrum sanguineum Sw. Prodr. 124 (1788). 



