572 A. CoGNiAUx: 



non indicato: Picarda n, 435; Guadeloupe in uliginosis ad La Goj^ave, 

 Ste. Marie, Gombeyre: Duss n. 3395; Trinidad (ex Salisbury et 

 Loddiges). — Mexico, Panama, Venezuela. 



359. Bletia Sliei>licrdii Hook, pseudobulbo depresso-subgloboso, 

 superne transverse aunulato, 50 mm. crasso; foliis late lanceolatis, longe 

 acurainatis, basi longe augustatis, multiuerviis, 40 — 45 cm. longis, 

 5 — 8 cm. latis; scapo robusto, teretiusculo, simplici vel ramoso, laxius- 

 cule multifloro, usque 9 dm. longo; bracteis triangulär! -linearibus, 

 acuminatis, 10 — 12 mm. longis; floribus erectis, longe pedicellatis, 

 segmentis patulis, superne satis recurvis; sepalis oblongis, acutis, 

 2Y2 — 3 cm. longis; petalis obovatis, apice rotundatis, margine undu- 

 latis, sepalo dorsali aequilongis; labello petalis satis longiore, ambitu 

 anguste obovato, profundiuscule trilobato, lobis undulato-crispis, late- 

 ralibus subrotuudatis, terminali valde producto, obovato, apice leviter 

 emarginato, disco usque infra apicem 5-laniellato, lamellis latis, tenui- 

 bus, undulatis, aequilongis; columna apoda, elongata, anguste bialata. 



Bletia ShephenUi Hook, in Bot. Mag. (1834) t. 3319; Griseb. Flor, 

 p. 622; Veitch, Man. Orch. VI (1890) iJ. 22. 



Flores intense fusco-purparei, lamellis disco albis. 



Hab. in Jamal ca ad Port- Antonio, inter Boy Walk et Spanisb 

 Town: Hitchcock, loco non indicato: Distin. 



360. Bletia alta (L.) Hitchc. pseudobulbo depresso-subgloboso, 

 transverse pluriannulato, 3 — 5 cm. crasso, vaginis pluribus scariosis 

 vestito; foliis linearibus vel anguste lineari-lanceolatis, longe acumi- 

 natis, basi anguste cuneatis et in petiolum canaliculatum plus minusve 

 productis, crasse multiuerviis, 4 — 8 dm. longis, 1 — 3 cm. latis, scapo 

 teretiusculo, vaginis paucis brevissimis acutisque vestito, simplici vel 

 saepius satis ramoso, usque 15 dm. longo, laxe multifloro; bracteis 

 anguste triangularibiis, longe acuminatis, 4 — 12 mm. longis; floribus 

 erectis, breviuscule pedicellatis, segmentis patulis; sepalo dorsali lan- 

 ceolato, acuto, 7-nervuloso, 17 — 18 mm. longo, 4 mm. lato, sepalis 

 lateralibus late oblongis, abrupte acutiusculis, 9 — 1 1-nervulosis, 15 mm. 

 longis, 6 mm. latis, mento distincto, obtuso; petalis ligulato-ovatis, 

 obtusiusculis, 9-nervulosis, 15 mm. longis, 7 — 8 mm. latis; labello 

 ambitu late ovato, 12 — 13 mm. longo, 10 — 11 ram. lato, basi sub- 

 truncato, superne profunde trilobato, lobis lateralibus ovatis, apice 

 rotundatis, non undulatis, lobo terminali producto, late obcordato, 

 valde undulato-crispo, apice profundiuscule emarginato, disco fere 

 usque ad apicem 5 — 7-lamellato, lamellis crassiusculis, simplicibus, 

 crispis; columna basi in pedem producta, 9 — 10 mm. longa, anguste 

 bialata. 



