126 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



lonops. 1 ; Griseh. loc. cit. I. teres Lindl. in Bot. Beg. xxiv» 

 Misc. 181 (1838), & Fol. Orch. lonops. 2. Epidendrum satyrioides 

 Sw. Prodr. 123 (1788). Dendrobium testiculatum Sw. in Nov. 

 Act. Upsal vi. 83 (1799) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1533. (PI. 27, f. 1-3.) 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On trees ; in fl. April-Oct., in fr. April-Jan. ; Swartz ! Chepstow, J.P. 

 462, Morris I Spanish Town, Hay I near Hope Bay, Moore ! Swift Eiver, 

 500 ft. ; Belvedere, Hanover, 500 ft. ; Troy, 1500 ft. ; Harris I Fl. Jam. 

 7621, 8666, 10,456, 10,463.— Hispaniola, Trinidad. 



Plant 2 in. to a foot high, varying much in size. Leaves 3-14 cm. L, 

 2-3 mm. br. Baceme or panicle, 3-15 cm. 1., generally longer than the 

 leaf, with a few distant lanceolate acute or acuminate adpressed sheaths 

 (2-8 mm. 1.), and sometimes with a few small leaves. Bracts small, 

 triangular, acute, half -clasping, concave, 1*5-3 "5 mm. 1. Flowers creamy- 

 white, perianth f in. 1. Sepals, lateral 3-nerved, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 united (for about 2 mm.) at the base and forming a 2-lobed sac, 7 mm. L, 

 2 mm. br. ; median, 5-nerved, ovate-lanceolate, acute, a little shorter than 

 the lateral, 2*3 mm. br. Petals 5-nerved, ovate-oblong, margin slightly 

 undulate and curled, apex obtuse, 7 mm. 1., nearly 3 mm. br. Lip 

 8'b mm. 1., obovate, long-tapering to base, with 5 nerves branching above, 

 margin slightly undulate, apex obtuse, undulate and curled and so it may 

 appear to be either 2-lobed or 3-lobed, with two minute calli at the outer 

 edge of the base, and on the disk two lamellate calli which extend to about 

 2 mm. from base. Column short, 2 mm. 1., thicker above. Capsule 

 ellipsoidal, tapering to base, 13-16 mm. 1., 5 mm. br. 



53. COMPARETTIA Poepp. & Endl. 



Epiphytic herbs. Stem very short with two or three sheaths, 

 becoming thickened into a small fleshy pseudobulb with one 

 leaf. Leaf leathery. Scapes at the base of the pseudobulbs, 

 erect, elongate, simple. Flowers laxly racemose, distinctly 

 stalked. Bracts small. Sepals, all of equal length, erect- 

 spreading, median free, lateral connate and produced at the base 

 into a long spur free from the petals. Petals as long as the 

 sepals but broader. Lip continuous with the base of the column, 

 produced at the base into two long linear spurs, included 

 within the spur of the sepals ; spreading, much longer than the 

 sepals, very broad, emarginate, clawed, the claw broadening 

 below into a rounded base. Column erect, somewhat thick, 

 semiterete, furrowed anteriorly, not winged, without a foot ; 

 clinandrium short, oblique, posteriorly somewhat acute. Anther 

 terminal, opercular, incumbent, very convex, 1 -celled ; pollinia 2, 

 waxy, broadly ovoid, furrowed, without an appendage, attached 

 to a linear wedge-shaped stalk, gland ovate. Capsule ovoid or 

 oblong, acute-angled, beaked. 



Species 6, natives of the West Indies and the Andes, from 

 Central America to Peru. 



C. faleata Pospp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Spec. i. 42, t. 73 

 (1836) ; Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4980 ; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 636 ; 



