134 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



oblong, undivided, sometimes longer than the sepals, the 

 disk fleshy or callose. Column short, erect, without a foot, 

 not winged but 2-auricled below the stigma ; clinandrium trun- 

 cate ; rostellum elongated. Anther terminal, opercular, in- 

 cumbent, 1-celled, anteriorly produced beyond the cell into a 

 membranous hooded appendage ; pollinia 2, waxy, globose, 

 without an appendage, attached to a narrow elongated stalk, 

 gland ovate. Capsule ellipsoidal, beaked. 



Species 7, natives of the West Indies, Mexico, and Central 

 America. 



L. labiatus Kuntze Bev. Gen. 656 (1891). — Cogn. in Symh. Ant. 

 iv. 182. L. cochlearis Lindl. in JBot. JReg. xxviii. Misc. 23 (1842) ; 

 Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 634. Epidendrum labiatum Sw. Brodr. 

 124 (1788), Fl. Ind. Occ. 1493 & Adnot. Bot. t. 2, f. 6. Oncidium 

 labiatum Beichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 741 (1861). (PI. 30, f. 1-5.) 



On trees; in fl. March-June; McNab ; St. Mary; St. Ann; Purdiel 

 Beaufort, WuUschlaegel, 1091 ! Castleton, on river banks, J. P. 2324, Syme I 

 near Gordon Town ; near Hope Bay ; Moore ! near Browns Town, Miss 

 T. M. Barrett ! Christiana, ToviUnson 1 Castleton ; Troy, 1500 ft. ; Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 10,423, 10,426, 10,462.— Cuba, Hispaniola, Guadeloupe, Dominica, 

 St. Vincent, Trinidad. 



Plant 2-9 in. high. Boots numerous, very long. Pseudobulb somewhat 

 globose, 7-15 mm. 1. Leaves, from apex of the pseudobulb and from its 

 base, somewhat leathery, 2-7 cm. 1., "5-1 "5 cm. br. Scape with a few 

 distant lanceolate keeled acute sheaths below (5-9 mm. 1.), and a few 

 flowers above. Pedicels about equalling ovary, together 8 mm. 1. Bracts 

 triangular, acute, 2-3 mm. 1. Sepals green, spotted with dark reddish- 

 brown, 3-nerved ; lateral oblong, obtuse, united at a distance of l"5-3 mm. 

 from base, 4-4-5 mm. 1., 1-3-1 "5 mm. br. each at point of union; median 

 elliptical, very shortly acuminate, 8 • 5 to nearly 4 mm. 1., 1 • 5 to nearly 2 mm. 

 br. Petals green, spotted with dark reddish-brown, elliptical-oblong, apex 

 conduplicate, shortly acute, 3 -25-3 -5 mm. 1., 1*5-1-75 mm. br. Lip 

 yellow, streaked with dark reddish-brown at base, elliptical-oblong, con- 

 tracted above the base, where there is a fleshy callus, and very concave at 

 the base, apex generally emarginate, about 5 mm. 1., 2-5 mm. br. Column 

 1-5 mm. 1. CapswZe 14-15 mm. 1., 7 mm. br. 



58. CRYPTARRHENA R. Br. 



Small epiphytic herbs. Stems leafy, very short, without 

 pseudobulbs. Leaves several, crowded, membranous-leathery, 

 with leathery sheaths overlapping in two ranks. Peduncles 

 axillary, erect, longer than the leaves, simple. Flowers small, 

 laxly racemose. Bracts narrow, about equalling the pedicels. 

 Sepals almost equal, free, spreading, acute. Petals somewhat 

 like the sepals. Lip continuous with the base of the column, 

 spreading, claw long, keeled-crested above ; lateral lobes at the 

 apex of the claw narrow, spreading or recurved ; median shorter, 

 broader, divided. Column short, thickened above, not winged, 

 without a foot ; clinandrium elevated, hooded, with small teeth 



