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purple, 5-6 mm. long, 3-3°5 mm. broad. Petals brick orange yellow tinged with 
crimson towards the centre, witha short blunt apex and a short rhomboidal body :65 mm. 
long, shortly toothed at the lower corners and drawn out at the upper into longer 
tapering upeurving horns; 6 mm. wide, including the horns. Lip purplish crimson ; 
median lobe short; lateral lobes appressed to the sides of the column and expanding 
above into a narrowly lanceolate surface, produced anteriorly round the back of the 
column and ending behind in a roundish base. Anther obovately rectangular, emarginate. 
Swartz describes this species as the most beautiful of the genus. 
Hab. “In summis montibus Jamaice australis, in truncis arborum necnon rupibus 
muscis vestitis.” “Floret ultimis mensibus anni.” Swartz (Fl. Ind. Occ. iii. 1563-4). 
Near Mabess River, 3500 and 4000 ft., W. Harris, in flower Dec.-April; John Crow 
Peak, slopes and spur, 100 to 300 ft. above Mabess River, W. Fawcett, Sept. 5; near 
John Crow Peak, W. Harris, Jan. 24 ; Brown's Town, St. Ann, Miss T. Moulton- Barrett, 
March. 
10. LuPANTHES CONCINNA, Sw. in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 85 (1799); in Schrad. Journ. 
Botan. ii. 241 (1799) ; in K. Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. xxi. 249 (1800) ; et in Fl. Ind. 
Oec. iii. 1557 (1806); Wickstr. Adnot. Bot. t. 2. fig. 4 (1829) ; Reichenb. f. Xenia 
Orch. i. 150 (1858); Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 611 (1864). (Plate 2. figs. 22-25.) 
Epidendrum ovale, Sw. Prodr. 125 (1788). 
Herba specierum Jamaicensium maxima; caules erecti vel suberecti, folia elliptica 
acuminata perpluries excedentes; vaginze tenues in ore acuto et striis minute cilio- 
latze. Racemi foliis breviores, swpe plures fasciculati, floribus pluribus distichis, 
bracteolis glabris, tenuiter acuminatis. Sepala late ovata, subacuta, lateralia ad 
medium connata. Petala cum apice obsoleto, lobis posticis majoribus ellipticis 
obtusis, post columnam imbricatis, anticis lanceolatis, acutis, divergentibus. Labelli 
lobus antieus obsoletus, lobi laterales erecti, supra medium incrassati et lanceolati 
columnam amplectentes. Columna brevis, superne dilatata. Capsula obovata, apice 
gibbosa. 
The slender wiry stems spring from a short woody rhizome and may reach 20 em. in 
length, but barely 1 mm. in diameter. By the perishing of the sheaths, the older stems 
often become bare, exposing the cylindrical internodes, which often have a reddish 
ünge. Leaves shortly stalked, generally 4 to 7 em. long by 1:5 to 2:8 em. broad. 
Racemes to 5 em. long; besides the flowering one, a number (sometimes as many as 
fifteen) of dried peduncles of former flowering seasons form an often dense fascicle in the 
leaf-axil ; flowers 8-16, closely distichous in the upper 6-12 mm.  Sepals tawny yellow, 
| sometimes flushed with erimson, 3 mm. long; the dorsal 3 mm. wide, the lateral 2 mm. 
The blunt posterior lobes of the petals overlapping behind the column, orange, shaded on 
the inner side with crimson or purple ; the shorter anterior lobes yellow. Lip erimson 
or purplish; mid-lobe suppressed, the lateral lobes suberect to the middle and then 
expanding to flattened lanceolate surfaces which embrace the column and overlap behind 
it. Column crimson. Anther obovate, apex retuse. Capsule 4 by 3 mm., the pedicel 
elongating considerably in the fruit (7 mm. in one specimen). 
