112 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



acuminate, somewhat clasping. Pedicels (including ovary) about 2 cm.,, 

 of fruit less than 1 cm. Sepals 2-2-6 cm. 1., 7-9 mm. br. ; median oblong,, 

 apiculate; lateral ovate-elliptical. Petals about the same length as the 

 sepals but broader, oval. Lip shorter than the petals, middle lobe 

 emarginate, crenate, curled. Column about | length of lip, winged. 

 Capsule 4 cm, 1. narrowly oblong, erect. 



Limodorum fioridum was founded by Salisbury on a specimen sent 

 " from Jamaica by Wm. Shakespeare." The original specimen is not 

 extant, but among Salisbury's drawings and Mss in the Department 

 of Botany are comparative descriptions and sketches of parts of the 

 flower of this species and of L. verecundum ; the drawing of the lip of 

 L. fioridum is reproduced in our plate. Brown followed Salisbury irt 

 regarding the two species as distinct, but there are no specimens of Bletia 

 flxyrida authenticated by him. In our opinion B. fiorida is identical with 

 the plant subsequently described by Hooker as B. Shepherdii. 



42. EULOPHIA R. Br. 



Terrestrial herbs, with rhizome thickened into a tiaber-like 

 pseudobulb, and stem with a few leaves. Leaves long, plaited, 

 many-veined, contracted into the stalk. Scapes erect from the 

 rhizome, tall, leafless, with several sheaths. Raceme simple ; 

 flowers medium-sized, shortly stalked. Bracts linear or lanceo- 

 late. Sepals free from each other, almost equal, the lateral 

 broader at the base and more or less decurrent into the foot of 

 the column. Petals somewhat similar to the median sepal, but 

 a little broader and shorter. Lip attached at the apex of the 

 foot of the column, forming a gibbous sac or spur between the 

 lateral sepals, 3-lobed, lateral lobes embracing the column, the 

 median rounded, spreading, with curled margin. Column ereet, 

 produced at the base into a foot, semiterete^ with acute scarcely 

 winged angles ; clinandrium oblique, entire. Anther terminal, 

 opercular, incumbent, obtusely conical, with a 2-lobed appendage, 

 imperfectly 2-celled. Pollinia 2 or 4, more or less connate 

 in pairs, broadly ovoid or globose, waxy, without appendage, 

 attached to a gland of the rostellum, whach is broad, generally 

 membranous, or produced into a short thick stalk. Capsule 

 ellipsoidal, pendulous, without a beak, ribs thick and prominent. 



Species about 180, widely diffused through the Tropics, most 

 numerous in Africa, and rare in Malaya, Polynesia, Australia 

 and Tropical America. 



E. alta comb. nov. — E. Woodfordii Bolfe in FL Trop. Afr. vii. 

 68 (1897) ; Ames Orck S. Fla. 19. Limodorum altum L. Syst. ed, 

 12, ii. 594 (1767). Limodorum foliis nervosis lanceolatis &c. Plum. 

 PI. Amer. (Burm.) t. 189 & Ic. ined. Hi. t. 192. Satyrium foliis 

 liratis &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 325. Dendrobium longifolium 

 H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. i. 360 (1815). Cyrtopodium Wood- 

 fordii Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1814 (1816); Lindl. in Bat. Beg. 

 t. 1508. Cyrtopera Woodfordii Lindl Gen. d Sp. Orcli. 183 



