FroRA OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 31 
from Mastic Point, June; terrestrial, 1.5 m. in height; scape lateral ; 
greenish-yellow flowers panicled ; leaves equitant, recurved, rosu- 
late from flattened tubers (602). Мо. 750 collected at Mars Вау, 
Andros, in July is probably a smaller specimen of the same species 
and no. 405 from Conch Sound, an Ozczdium in fruit only, may 
perhaps be referred to the same species. 
Vanilla articulata sp. nov. “ Link-vine," “ wormwood ” 
A tall climber with aérial roots, growing over trees and shrubs, 
aphyllous; stems jointed, joints fleshy, smooth, subangular, 2-3 
dm. in length: flowers in short axillary spikes, 6—12-flowered ; 
bracts broadly ovate or triangular, blunt, 5 mm. in length : flowers 
about 6 cm. long, fleshy, white with faint pinkish tinge, parts of 
perigone jointed at the base : sepals erect, spreading, fleshy, oblance- 
olate, involute at the tip, 3-4 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide: petals 
oblanceolate or spatulate, equalling the sepals but thinner, keeled 
on the back ; lip adnate to the column more than two thirds ot the 
way, convolute, broadly obovate or triangular, about 3 cm. in 
width, channeled on the back, three-lobed, lobes obtuse, crispate, 
lateral lobes papillose below, central lobe sparingly crested above, 
bearded below (thick tuft of cilia 5-6 mm. long) ; column elongated, 
about 2.5 cm.: anther terminal, jointed at the base, pollinia two: 
stigma shortly transverse : ovary fleshy, flattened, sometimes slightly 
two-edged, incurved, 3-3.5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide : capsule elon- 
gated. 
Collected on both islands, not common. New Providence, 
Feb.; in bloom, July; London Creek, May ; Deep Creek, June 
(545). 
LATE 3. Vanilla articulata. Cluster of flowers; e, lip; а, и, sepals ; d, petal ; 
о, column, side view ; v, column, front view ; 7, cross section of buds. 
CRANICHIS sp.? near С. пи Reich. Leaves lanceolate, 
6-8 cm. in length ; petioles equalling or exceeding the leaves ; scape 
very slender, few-flowered, 22 cm. in length, few small sheathing 
scales. Two specimens only, Conch Sound, Мау (567). 
CRANICHIS sp.? In fruit, possibly G. muscosa Sw. but the 
scape is much more densely flowered than in Wright 620 from 
Cuba. Conch Sound, March (417). 
STENORHYNCHUS ORCHIOIDES Rich. Not common. 
greenish. Conch Sound, Мау (412). 
Сувозтаснуз PERUVIANA (Aubl.) Kuntze? Common an 
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