L.ELIA 103 



imperfectly divided again into two cells by a longitudinal 

 partition ; pollinia 8, four in each cell, all compressed in the 

 same direction, the ascending portion of the inferior pair 

 connected with the descending portion of the upper pair in 

 each cell by a linear granular appendage. 



Species about 39, natives of the warmer parts of America 

 from the West Indies and Mexico to Brazil. 



L. monophylla N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. xviii. 782 (1882) ; 

 Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6683. Trigonidium monophyllum Griseh. 

 Fl. Br. W. Ind. 629 (1864). Octadesmia monophylla Benth. in 

 Bentk & Hook.f. Gen. PI. Hi. 526 (1883). (PL 17, f. 6-12.) 



On trees; in fl. Aug.-Nov. ; Bancroft \ Mt. Moses, J.P. 2405, Symel 

 Morris 1 Greenwich Woods, Fawcett 1 Tweedside ; Green Hill Woods, 

 4000 ft. ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 7783, 7996. 



Plant 4-8 (sometimes 12) in. high. Stem slender, 2-9 cm. 1., covered 

 with three speckled cylindrical sheaths springing from the nodes, and 

 with one leaf at apex. Leaf linear-oblong, obtuse, 6-10 cm. 1., 7-10 

 mm. br. Peduncle with 4-6 bracts like the sheaths, 5-22 cm. 1. Flowers 

 vivid orange-scarlet, except the anther-cap which is purple, about f in, 1. 

 Sepals, lateral elliptical, obtuse, 17-22 mm. 1., 5 '6-7 '5 mm. br. ; median 

 ovoid-elliptical, 16-19 mm. 1., 6 '5-7 '5 mm. br. Petals obovate-elliptical, 

 14-17 mm. 1., 6-9 mm. br. Lip obovoid in outline, 7-9 mm. 1., continuous 

 with wings of cohunn below, 3-lobed near apex, lateral lobes rounded, 

 median lobe semicircular, somewhat apiculate, disk papillose, with a 

 sac-like outgrowth along the median line. Column 6 '5-8 -5 mm. 1., 

 winged ; clinandrium broadly winged, crenulate on the dorsal margin. 



34. SCHOMBURGKIA Lindl. 



Epiphytic herbs ; pseudobulbs with several scarious sheaths, 

 2-leaved at the apex. Leaves oblong, elongated, thick, leathery. 

 Raceme simple on a terminal elongated sheathed peduncle, 

 flowers stalked. Bracts persistent, rigidly membranous. Sepals 

 almost equal, free, spreading, more or less undulate. Petals 

 similar and equal to the sepals. Lip very shortly connate quite 

 at the base with the column, erect ; the sides at first loosely 

 embracing the column ; the upper margin undulate. Column 

 straight or incurved, winged ; clinandrium lobed. Anther 

 attached to the apex of the median tooth, incumbent ; imperfectly 

 8-celled ; pollinia 8, waxy, superposed in pairs, broadly ovate, 

 compressed, connected by a slender granular appendage. Capsule 

 ovoid. 



Species about 13, natives of tropical America, including the 

 West Indies. 



S. Lyonsii Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1853, 615 ; HooJc. in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5172. S. carinata Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 621 (1864). 

 (PI. 19, f. 1-6.) 



On rocks and trees; in fl. Aug.-Nov., in fr. Dec; St. Ann, Purdiel 

 St. Ann, Prior 1 Castleton, J.P. 535, Morris I Badnor, Cradwick I Ramble, 



