108 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



capitata JR. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 206 (1813) ; Lindl 

 Gen. & Sp. Orch. 123. Evelyna capitata Poepp. d Endl. Nov. 

 Gen. d Sp. i. 32, t. 56 (1835) ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 622. 

 (PI. 20, f. 1-7.) Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On trees; in fl. July, Aug. ; Masson I Wiles\ Macfadyenl March \ J. P. 232, 

 Morris 1 near Claverty Cottage, Blue Mts., Moare ! Vinegar Hill, St. George, 

 Harris I Fl. Jam. 7717. — Guadeloupe, Martinique, Grenada, Trinidad, 

 Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru. 



Plant rising to 4 ft. and over. Stem to 12 dm. 1., 3-5 mm. br., simple, 

 somewhat stout, 'erect, covered with leaf sheaths. Leaves papery, 7-9 

 nerved, 1-2 dm. 1., 2-5 cm. br. ; sheaths 5-6 cm. 1., smaller near apex. 

 Head dense, many-flowered, hemispherical, 2*5-5 cm. br. Bracts, outer 

 without flowers, closely overlapping, ovate-triangular, acuminate, 2*5-4 

 cm. 1,, 1-1*5 cm. br. ; inner bracts subtending the flowers half as short 

 and two or three times narrower. Flowers rosy-purple, perianth ^ in. 1., lip 

 f in. 1. Sepals 3-5-nerved, ligulate, shortly tapering to an acute apex, 

 12-13 mm. 1., 3-3*5 mm. br., lateral united and gibbous at base. Petals 

 similar to sepals. Lip longer than the sepals, roundish with a narrower 

 base, enclosing the column, saccate at base, apex broadly emarginate, 

 margin denticulate-ciliate, with two large, subglobose calli at base. Column 

 9-10 mm. 1., thicker above, with a projecting, obtuse process on the 

 anterior side below the stigma. 



2. E. longibraeteatus Fawc. Fl. PI. Jam. 38 (1893) ; flowers 

 in a spike. — Evelyna longibracteata Lindl. ex Griseb. loc. cit. 

 (1864). (PI. 20, f. 8-12.) Type in Herb. Lindl. at Kew. 



On peaty banks and rocks ; in fl. March-May ; Wright ! Macfadyen I 

 March ! J.P. 528, Syme ! Greenwich, Moore 1 Fairfield, Oehler ! Lancaster, 

 2500 ft. ; near Troy, 1400 ft ; Cinchona, 10,414 ft. ; Harris !— Dominica, 

 Colombia, Ecuador. 



Plant 2-3 ft. high. Stem 4*5-8 dm. 1,, 2-4 mm. br., simple, erect, 

 nearly covered with leaf-sheaths. Leaves papery, 5-nerved, 8-17 cm. 

 1., 1-2 cm. br. ; sheaths 1*5-3*5 cm. 1. Spike somewhat dense, 4-8 cm. 

 1., several-flowered. Bracts ovate, acuminate, spathe-like, longer than, 

 the flower, 1 * 5-2 * 5 cm. 1. Flowers cream-colour or pale yellow, perianth 

 J in. 1., lip longer. Sepals 9-nerved, lateral oblong-triangular, mucronate, 

 saccate and gibbous at base, 7*5-8*5 mm. 1., 4-5 mm. br. at base; median 

 oblong, apex rounded, mucronate, 7 mm. L, 4 mm. br. Petals 6-nerved, 

 ligulate, obtuse, nearly 7 mm. 1., 2*3 mm. br. Lipnot exserted beyond the 

 sepals, saccate, enclosing the column, indistinctly 3-lobed, upper margin 

 denticulate, somewhat eroded, curled, lobes rounded, nearly equal, with 

 two large ovate calli at base, and two transverse linear calli at base of 

 lobes, nearly as long as the lateral sepals. Column 6 mm. 1., winged ; 

 clinandrium with a spreading lobe at each side. Capsule cylindrical, 

 slightly puberulous, 8 mm. 1. 



[39. PHAIUS Lour.] 



[Terrestrial herbs, rather tall, with stems crowded on a 

 caudex. Leaves elongate, plaited, at the base narrowed or 

 contracted into a long stalk, with sheaths generally striate. 

 Scape springing from the caudex. Flowers in a raceme, several, 

 stalked. Bracts sometimes small, linear, sometimes rather large, 

 membranous or herbaceous. Sepals free, almost equal, spreading 



