86 ORCHIDACEAE. 



wide as long, ^\ith. two minute callosities at the base; capsule oblong, blunt, 

 about mm. long. 



Coppices and white-lands, Lignum Yitae Cay, Andros, Eleutliera, Cat Island, 

 Long Island, Watling"s, Great Exuma, Crooked Island and Xortli Caicos : — Florida ; 

 Anegada ; Porto Rico. Erroneously recorded by Cogniaux as Spiranthes elata. 

 Gbeex Ladies-tresses. 



5. STENORRHYNCHUS L. C. Eich. Mem. Mus. Paris 4: 59. 1818. 



Erect, terrestrial orchids, with lanceolate to elliptic basal leaves often 

 wanting at flowering time, the sheathed scape terminated by a spike of rather 

 large, often showy, mostly red or yellow flowers. Sepals nearly equal, the 

 median one adnate to the petals, the lateral ones united below and produced 

 into a sac or spur. Petals mostly shorter than the sepals. Lip entire or nearly 

 so, concave, without callosities. Column with a foot; stigma under the 

 beaked rostellum. Anther oblong or lanceolate; pollinia powdery. [Greek, 

 narrow beak.] About 25 species, of tropical and subtropical America. Type 

 species: Neottia speciosa Willd. 



1. Stenorrhynchus lanceolatus (Aubl.) Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 642. 1864. 



Limodorum lanceoJatum Aubl. PI. Guian. 2: 821. 1775. 



Satyrium orchioides Sw. Prodr. 118. 1788. 



Stenorrhynchus orchioides L. C. Rich. Mem. Mus. Paris 4: 59. 1818. 



Leaves 1-3, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, bright green, glabrous, 1-3 dm. 

 long, 2-5 cm. wide, acute at the apex, narrowed at the base into margined 

 petioles, wanting at flowering time. Scape rather stout, 3-6 dm. high, erect, 

 scurfy or somewhat glandular-pubescent, bearing several, acuminate, sheath- 

 ing scales 2-4 cm. long; spike several-many-flowered, 1-2.5 cm. long; bracts 

 lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the floAvers ; flowers red or yellow, 2-3 cm. 

 long ; ovary oblong, oblique at the apex ; sepals glandular, lanceolate, acute, 

 5-7-nerved; petals oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5-7-nerved; lip lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate, saccate at about the middle; capsule about 1 cm. long. 



Pine-lands and scrub-lands, Great Bahama, Andros and New Providence : — 

 Florida ; Cuba to Porto Rico and Trinidad ; Mexico to Colombia and Paraguay. 

 Leafless Beaked-oechid. 



6. PRESCOTTIA Lindl. in Hook. Exot. Fl. pi. 115. 1825. 



Terrestrial orchids, with clustered roots, erect, scape-like stems, broad, 

 tufted, basal leaves convolute in the bud, and small flowers in a terminal spike. 

 Sepals broad, connate at the base. Petals narrow, thin, mostly shorter than 

 the sepals. Lip broad, concave, 2-auricled at the base of the blade, erect. 

 Column short; rostellum retuse, as long as the anther or longer. Pollinia 

 powdery. Capsule small, oblong or ovoid. [Commemorates John D. Prescott, 

 English botanist, died 1837.] About 30 species, of tropical and subtropical 

 America. Type species: Prescottia plantaginifolia Lindl. 



1. Prescottia oligantha (Sw.) Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 454. 1840. 



Cranichis oligajitha Sw. Prodr. 120. 1788. 



Slender, glabrous, 2-4 dm. high. Basal leaves few, ovate to elliptic, 

 2-7.5 cm. long, acute or obtuse at the apex, obtuse or narrowed at the base. 



