194 GYNANDRIA. MONANDRIA. 



Spectes. \.C ptikheilua. Cymbidium pulchellvm. Willd. 

 Ph. 2. p. 592. A second species of this genus appears 

 to exist in North and South Carolina, judging from hiver- 

 nal vestiges; in these there is but a single ensiform radi- 

 - cal leaf about 12 inches long, numerously striated and 

 nearly obtuse; the scape is terete, 18 inches high, and 8 

 to 10 flowered; the lip appears to have been nearly simi- 

 lar to that of C. pulchellas. Root tuberous. 



615. ARETHUSA. R, Brown, 



Petals 5, connate at the base. Lip below grow- 

 ing to the column, ciicullate aboVe, and internal- 

 ly crested. Pollen angular. 



Root bulbous, subglobose; scape leafless, 1-flowered. 



Species. I. A- btdbosa. Obs. ^. pendula and .^. verticil- 

 lata are retained in this genus by Sprengel and apparently 

 also by R. Brown, but they do not appear to be congeners, 

 and certainly do not accord with the present generic cha- 

 racter of Arethusa. 



1 1 1 f. Anther terminal, moveable, deciduous. Mas^ 

 ses of pollen at length cercaceous. 



616. BLETIA. i2i«2i and Pflron. R.Brown. 

 Pefais 5, distinct. Zip sessile, cucullate; some- 

 times calcarate at the base. Column free. Pol- 

 linia 8 or 4 bilobed. 



Roots bulbous, subglobose; scapes or stems simple, 

 flowers racemose or rarely capitate; leaves mostly narrow 

 or ensiform and arid, rarely wanting. 



Species. 1. B. verecunda. Cymbedlvm verecundum. 

 Wilid. Mab. In Florida. 



2. • aphylla. Leafless; scape terete, racemose, attenua- 

 ted and squamiferous, scales ovate, alternate, numerous; 

 lip spurless. Hab. In Carolina and Florida, v. s. In Herb. 

 Muhl. and Baldwyn. A very singular species, with an in- 

 crassated scaly scape about a foot high, the upper part ter- 

 minating in a raceme of brownish-purple flowers possess- 

 ing all the characters of a genuine species, the lip diva- 

 ricately veined, not produced at the base, and trifid as in 

 B' verecunda. 



A small genus principally indigenous to the West In- 

 dies and Peru. 



