636 ORCHIDE^. 



parallel to the lip, clavate : poUinaria 2, solid ; caudicula oblong, gland ovoid. — Boot 

 Jlhrous ; scape panicled; leaves eguitemt ; flowers small, densely racemose along the 

 branches of the scape, 



179. T. falcata, Lindl. {S.). Scape slender, 6"-12"lugli; leaves distichons-rosulate, 

 obloug-linear, acuminate, slightly falcate, 3"-6" long, 4'" broad ; branches of the panicle 

 distant, 1" long, or shorter, naked below : bracts small, subulate-linear ; flowers approxi- 

 mate, about l"'iong: perigonial divisions ovate.^ — Hab, Trinidad!, Or.,Bradf.; {Venezuela!; 

 New Granada!]. 



56. JONOPSIS, ^M. 



JAp little adhering to the base of the column, clawed, its blade spreading : perigonial 

 divisions exterior lateral cohering at the base, and produced into a sack below the lip. 

 Column naked, low : rostellum beaked : poUinaria 2, dorsally furrowed; caudicula linear, 

 gland ovoid. — Scape paraded or racemose ; leaves rigid; flowers white or purple. 



180. J. testiculata, Lindl. " Scape few-flowered, simple (or few-branched) ; leaves 

 terete, acuminate ; perigonial divisions exterior pointed, interior blunt : sack didymous- 

 ventricose ; lip ovate, acuminate." — Dendrobium, Sw. Epidendrum satyrioides, Sw. (3o- 

 nopsis, G. Sc/id.). — " Leaves 2"-3" long, 3-4 times exceeded by the scape ; flowers small, 

 white ; lip and interior perigone red-veined." — Hab. Jamaica (5w.) ; [Haiti]. 



181. J. pallidiflora, Lindl. "Scape simple; leaves oblong-linear, flat; perigonial 

 divisions blunt : sack didymous-ventricose ; lip %-loiedy more than twice as long as the 

 perigone." — "Flowers white, with purple stripes." — Hab. Trinidad {Hook). 



182. J. utricularioides, Lindl. I Scape panicled above ; perigonial divisions bluntish: 

 sack short, simple, blunt ; lip 2-lobed from a cuneate, 2-callous claw, half a& long again or 

 twice as long as the perigone ; lobes subquadrate-roundish.— Dendrobium, Su>. J. Gardneri,,- 

 PI. Wright. 667.— I'-l^' high; leaves 4" long, 4"'-6"' broad; flowers 5"' long, white 

 with red veins, or variegated. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., JFullschl., March, on trees ; [Cuba ! 

 to Venezuela!]. 



57. COMPARETTIA, Poepp., Endl. 



Lip fi-ee, clawed, flat, its claw produced from the back into 2 filiform horns, concealed 

 within the spur : perigonial divisions exterior lateral cohering at the base, and produced into 

 a spur beneath the lip. Column winged above, low : poUinaria 2 : " caudiculse as many, 

 distinct, gland ovoid." — Scape lateral to minute, 1-leaved, aerial tubers; flowers race- 

 mose. 



183. C. falcata, Pcepp., Endl. [L.). Leaves oblong, blunt or mucronate, much ex- 

 ceeded by the slender, simple scape ; flowers distant in the raceme, red ; perigone half as 

 long as the lip : spur linear, falcate, ascending, as long as the perigone ; lip roundish, 

 2-lobed : its blade as long as the cuneate, 2-auricled claw. — Pasm., Endl. N. Gen. 1. 1. 73, 

 — l'-2'high; leaves 4"-6" long, l"-li" broad; lip 6"'-8"' long.— Hab. Jamaica!, WullscM., 

 on trees ; [Cuba ! to Peru]. 



Tkibb IV. ARETHUSE/E. — PoUinaria powdery-granular. Anther terminal, jointed 

 at the base. Stem terrestrial. 



58. CLEISTBS, Rich. 



Lip convolute below around the column, 2-caUons at the base : perigone subequal, conni- 

 vent, its divisions free. Column free, clavate : anther inflexed-terminal, its bed dentate.— 

 Tubers terrestrial; leaves distant, embracing the stem at the base ; flowers large, axillary, 

 or single. 



184. O. lutea, Lindl. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; flowers yellow : perigonial 

 divisions oblong-lanceolate, acuminate j lip half as long, " S-lobed, the middle lobe crispate, 

 emarginate."— ^K*;. t. 321. — Limodorum grandiflorum, Aubl.— Stem 2'-B' high; flowers 

 few, 3" long.— Hab. Trinidad!, O., Savannah de Omara; [Guiana]. 



185. C. rosea, Lindl. {E.). Leaves oblong-lanceolate, pointed ; flowers rosy : perigo- 



