118 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



sometimes one pair very small or wanting, without an appendage, 

 or more rarely cohering by a small, subgranular viscid body. 

 Capsule globose, ovoid or oblong, not beaked. 



Species about 550, scattered for the most part through the 

 tropical regions of Africa and Asia, very few in West Indies, 

 South America or Australia, one in New Zealand. 



Flower-stalk not swollen, petals ciliate 1. B.jamaicense. 



Flower-stalk swollen, petals glabrous 2. B. pachyrrhachis. 



1. B. jamaieense Cogn. in Fedde Bepert. vii, 122(1909); 

 with flowering-stalk not swollen, petals ciliate, lip pilose below. 

 (PI. 23, f. 8-14.) 



On trees ; in fl. and fr. March ; near Tweedside, south St. Andrew, 

 2500 ft., Harris I Fl. Jam. 7998. 



Plant 4 in. high. Pseudobulbs small, densely clustered, globose, 

 1-leaved, 6-8 mm. 1. Leaves leathery, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 1-3^ cm. 1., 

 4-8 mm. br. Scape 6-10 cm. 1., much longer than the leaf, very slender, 

 with a few short (5-6 mm. 1.) obtuse sheaths at intervals; the upper 

 portion (2-3 cm. 1.) a spike with slender rachis. Flowers reddish, few 

 (4-10), lax, small, J-^ in. 1. Bracts ovate, acute, 2-3 mm. 1., about as long 

 as ovary. Sepals 3-nerved ; median concave, ovate, acute, 4*5-5 mm. 1., 

 2 mm. br. ; lateral connate nearly to apex, elliptical, 5 mm. 1., 3 mm. br. 

 Petals 1-nerved, linear, tapering to an acute apex, ciliate, 3-4 mm. 1., 

 • 7-1 mm. br. Lip shortly clawed, somewhat thick, oblong-elliptical, with 

 sides recurved, obtuse, papillose, pilose below, 3 mm. 1. Column very 

 short, -5 mm. 1., posterior tooth short, bristle-like, lateral subulate, erect, 

 as long as column, branching at apex. Capsule obovoid, 5-6 mm. 1. 



2. B. paehyrrhaehis Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 613 (1864); 

 flowering-stalk swollen, petals and lip glabrous. — Cogn. in Symb. 

 Ant. iv. 179. Pleurothallis ? pachyrachis A. Bich. Fl. Cub. 

 a. 234 (1853), Ic. t. 74 (1863). Bolbophyllaria pachyrrhachis 

 Beichh.f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 241 (1861). (PI. 23, f. 15, 16.) 



On trees ; in fl. and fr. Jan. ; St. Elizabeth, J.P. 525, Syme ! Belvedere, 

 Hanover, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7634. — Cuba, Porto Rico, Trinidad. 



Plant 4-18 in. high. Pseudobulbs with two or more scarious sheaths, 

 on a creeping rhizome, ovoid-conical, 4-winged, 2-leaved, 5-2 cm. 1. 

 Leaves somewhat leathery, ligulate, obtuse, 7-19 cm. 1., 8-23 mm. br. 

 Scape 10-45 cm. 1., much longer than the leaves, with short (8-10 mm. 1.) 

 obtuse sheaths at intervals ; the upper portion (5-30 cm. 1.) a spike with 

 more or less swollen and fleshy rachis. Flowers many, lax, small, 

 J-J in. 1. Bracts very broad at the clasping base, triangular, obtuse, 

 3-4 mm. 1., a little shorter than the flower; two, ovate, acute, at apex of 

 ovary, 1 mm. 1. Sepals 3-nerved, median concave, ovate, very acute, 

 4*5-5 mm. 1.; lateral connate at base, ovate, acuminate, 4-3-5 mm. 1., 

 1-5-2 mm. br. Petals 1-nerved, oblong-elliptical, obtuse, 1*75-2 mm. 1., 

 •9-1-2 mm. br. Lip thick and fleshy, 3-angled in section, undivided, 

 with a very thick, 3-angled claw, disk at right angles to claw, oblong- 

 elliptical, obtuse, margin entire and glabrous, slightly keeled at laack but 

 not serrate, disk with a longitudinal furrow in the middle ; claw about 

 1 mm. 1., disk 2-2*4 mm. 1. Column short, posterior tooth small, lateral 

 teeth longer, subulate, slightly incurved, shorter than the petals, 

 1*5-1*75 mm. 1. Capsule ellipsoidal, with six broad keels, 8 mm. 1., 

 5 mm. br. 



