ORCHIDE^S!. "^ 639 



pointed : anther dorsal above its base, beaked : " poUinaria 4."— Root fascicled ; leaves 

 usually rosulate, those of the stem small, or transformed into sheathing scales ; flowers 



196. C. mnecosa, Sw. (L., B.). Root-fibres villous; stem glalrous ; rosulate leaves 

 ovate, or ovate-oblong, pointed, petioled, those of the stem foliaceous, inferior cucnllate- 

 sessile, ovate-roundish, superior oblong-lanceolate ; flowers densely spicate : bracts oblong- 

 lanceolate, or lanceolate, as long as the ovary : perigonial divisions oblong, spreading; lip 

 as long, sessile, obovate-oblong, tubercled inside, j^««/roiM the column. — -Sw. Fl. t. 29. f. 3 : 

 analgt. — i'-V{-2') high; lowest leaves l"-i", those of the stem 6"'-4"'long; flowers 

 white, l"'-li"' long, much shorter than the slender ovary. — -Hae. Jamaica !, all coB., in 

 moist, shady woods ; Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent, Guild. ; Trinidad !, Cr. ; [Cuba !]. 



197. O. pauciflora, iSw. (i.). Root-fibres villous ; scape glandular-puberuloViS above, 

 distantly sheathed ; leaves rosulate, roundish-elliptical, or elliptical, blnntish, shortly pe- 

 tioled or subsessile ; flowers subdistant, somewhat one-sided : bracts ovate, pointed, half as 

 long as the ovary ; perigonial divisions spreading, exterior lateral obliquely ovate, ventral 

 oblong-lanceolate, 3 interior half-ovate ; . lip as long, sessile, concave to the middle, subulate, 

 adnate to the base of the column, the latter half as long, beaked. — 8"-15" high ; leaves 

 l"-li"loug; flowers "whitish," 2"' long. — Hab. Jamaica I, Bist., M'Nab,hi mountain- 

 woods ; [Cuba !]. 



198. C. ventricosa, Qr. {n, sp.). — Root-fibres villous ; scape glandular above, distantly 

 sheathed ; leaves rosulate, elliptical, or lanceolate-oblong, shortly petioled, or subsessile ; 

 flowers subdistant, somewhat one-sided : bracts ovate, or oblong, pointed, one-third as long as 

 the slender ovary ; perigonial divisions spreading, exterior lateral obliquely ovate, ventral 

 oblong-lanceolate, 2 interior unequally 2-lobed; lip included, sessile, bluntly saccate-cucul- 

 eate with a deltoid summit, continuous with the base of the eolv/mn, the latter half as long, 

 beaked. — Allied to C. gibbosatlJmSi. !, in which the stem is taller, less glandular, the lowest 

 sheaths foliaceous, and the interior divisions of the perigone spathulate, not auricled. 

 8"-14' high ; leaves variable, 3"-l", flowers 3"' long. — Hab. Jamaica !, Wils., Wullsehl., 

 Manchester; [Cuba!, PI. Wright. 1476, 1479]. 



199. C. diphylla, Sw. "Root-fibres glabrous; scape glabrous ; leaves usually 2-1, 

 cordate, acuminate, petioled; flowers small, numerous in j short spike: bracts minute, 

 ovate, pointed ; perigonial divisions 2 interior lanceolate, smaller than the exterior ones ; 

 lip included, keeled on the back ; column acuminate." — " 6" high ; flowers greenish-white." 

 — Hab. Jamaica (Sw.), in bogs of the highest mountains, among mosses. 



64. WULLSCHL.S;GELIA, G. Echb. 



Character of Granichis, but column truncate with a large, depressed, margined stigma, 

 and the recurved anther near its 2-mucronate summit. — A leafless, terrestrial parasite, with 

 fascicled roots ; flowers small, racemose : perigone obliquely curved, connivent. 



200. W. aphylla, G. Bchb. .'—Sw. Fl. t. 29. /. 1 : awa/^^.— Cranichis, /Sw.— 6"-15" 

 high, slender, pubernlous; scales distant, lanceolate-acuminate, about 1'" long; raceme 

 spiciform, many-flowered, B"-l" long : bracts lanceolate, as long as the pedicel, 1"', ovary 

 li'" long ; perigone " whitish," V" long : exterior lateral divisions deltoid, ventral oblong, 

 interior spathulate ; lip cucuUate-deltoid ; column as long as broad, slightly incurved : 

 anther shortly clavate, sessUe : stigma half-round. — Hab. Jamaica I, Pd., Wullsehl., in shady 

 woods, S. Ann's, rare, Manchester at 2500' alt.. Clarendon ; [Cuba !]. 



65. PRESCOTTIA, Undl. 



Up posterior, cuci Jlate, hastate-sessile upon the obliquely adnate tube or sack of the peri 

 gone : divisions of the latter continuous by the anterior margin of the sack. Column low : 

 anther dorsal, rounded : " pollinaria 2, VikibeSL."—&Qot fascicled ; leaves rosulate {-single) ; 

 flowers in a many-flowered spike. 



201. P. stachyoides, lAndl. Leaves ovate, or elliptical-oblong, pointed, sharply 

 complicated at the long-petioled base ; spike dense, elongated : lowest flowers somewhat dis- 

 tant : bracts as long as the ovary ; perigonial divisions blunt, exterior oblong-linear, 2 in- 



