144 ORCHIDS OF JAMAICA 



1. D. funalis Fawc. Fl PI Jam. 40 (1893); lip very large, 

 broad, with two rounded lobes, united by a short claw to the 

 "wide mouth of the spur, reticulate-9-veined, to apex of lateral 

 lobe 1*7 cm. 1., 2*2 cm. br. ; spur filiform, tapering towards 

 •apex, nearly three times as long as the sepals, about 5 • 5 cm. 1. 

 — Epidendrum funale Sw. Prodr. 126 (1788). Limodorum 

 funale Sw, in Nov. Act. Upsal. ri. 79 (1799) & Fl. Occ. Ind. in. 

 1521. (Eceoclades funalis Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 237 (1833), 

 Angrsecum funale Lindl. in Bot. Beg. xxvi. under t. 68 (1840) ; 

 Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4295. Aeranthus funalis BeicJih. f. in 

 Walp. Ann. vi. 902 (1861). Aeranthes funalis Griseb. Fl. Br. 

 W. Ind. 625 (1864). Polyrrhiza funahs Pfitz. in Engl. & Prantl 

 Nat. Pfianzenf ii. pt. 6, 209 & 215 (1889). (PI. 32.) Type in 

 Herb, Mus. Brit. 



On trees ; in fl. Nov. -March ; Swartz 1 Wag Water River, J.P. 2330i_ 

 .Syme ! near Browns Town, Miss T. M. Barrett ! H. Levy 1 near Christiana,' 

 Mrs. SewelU Blue Mts., Moorel near Gordon Town; Hope Mines; Harrisl 

 Fl. Jam. 5655, 7763, 9005. 



Plant 5 or 6 in. high. Boots to 3 dm. or more L, slender, compressed, 

 flexuose, canescent, simple, occasionally branched, repeatedly forming 

 new growths from the tips of the old roots. Stem very much reduced, 

 extending occasionally to scarcely 2 cm., covered with brown sheathing 

 scales, leafless, bearing long slender woody stolons. Scape simple, few- 

 flowered, 6-10 cm. 1. Bracts sheathing, wide at mouth, acute or acuminate, 

 ixrown, 4-5 mm. 1. Pedicel (of fruit) 1 to nearly 2 cm. 1. Sepals elliptical, 

 obtuse, xeticulate-7-veined ; median spreading, about 2 cm. 1., 7 mm. br. ; 

 lateral deflexed, about 2*2 cm. 1., 6 mm. br. Petals oblong-elliptical, 

 subacute, reticuiate-7-veined, spreading, about 2 cm. 1., 5-6 mm. br. 

 Column short, with two broad wings produced anteriorly. Anther sub- 

 hemispherical, cells not divided, but indicated by an almost obsolete wall 

 «.nd by a longitudinal depression outside ; poUinia on a ribbon-like process 

 of the flat stalk. Capstile elongated, cylindrical, 6-angled, 7 cm. 1., about 

 •5 cm. br. 



2. D. Barrettiae Fawc. d Bendle in Journ. Bot. xlvii. 266 

 ^1909) ; lip undivided, saccate, above broadly ovate, shortly 

 acuminate, extending about as far as lateral sepals ; spur 

 spreading, 2 "3 cm. 1., increasing in thickness from the middle 

 towards the apex. Types in Herb. Kew. and in Herb. Mus. 

 Brit. 



On trees ; in fl. in Aug. ; near Browns Town, Miss T. M. Barrett ! Holly 

 Mount, M±. Diabolo, 2600 ft., Harris 1 



A small ;st«mless, leafless plant, about an inch high. Boots very slender, 

 flexuose, simple, to 12 cm. 1. Scapes several, clustered, simple, to 2*5 cm. 

 i. Bracts few (three), tubular below, free part ovate, apiculate, 1-5 mm. 1. 

 Flowers small, one flower appearing at a time, greenish-white, the spur 

 rather lighter in colour. Sepals spreading, 3-nerved, linear-lanceolate, sub- 

 acute to acute, 5-6 mm. 1., 1*3-1 -5 mm. br. Petals erect, 3-nerved, 

 similar to sepals, linear-ligulate, acute, nearly 5 mm. 1., 1 mm. br. Column 

 very short, auriculate at apex as in D. ftinalis, auricles toothed on upper 

 margin ; anther-cells somewhat ovate-rectangular in outline ; pollinia with 

 a. simple stalk. 



