ORCHIDEJ!. 643 



lateral lanceolate-linear ; Up dilated into a small, semilunar, ciliate blade : spur shortly 

 ct/lindrical, slightly curved, much shorter than the ovary. — Orchis, Sw. — 6"-13" high ; leaves 

 14"-2", raceme l"-3", flowers IJ'" long, the latter " greenish-white." — Has. Jamaica !, 

 all coll., in mountain woods; Dominica!, Imr., S. Lucia, S. Vincent; [Cuba!]. 



219. P. plantagiueus, Lindl. I Stem ascending, pubemlous, naked above ; leaves 

 ovate-oblong or ovate, pointed ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, exceeding the ovary ; perigonial 

 divisions exterior lateral oblong-lanceolate, blnntish ; % dilated above into an ovate-oblong, 

 sub-3-lobed blade : middle lobe narrow, exserted, revoliite-aemni/nate : spur elavaie, blunt, 

 descending, exceeding half the ovary. — SI. t. 147. /. 2. Mch. Cub. t. 88. — Satyriura, L. 

 Orchis, Sw. P. Sagraeanus, Rich. Pelexia bursai-ia, Lindl. — 1'-2' high; leaves 4"-2", 

 raceme 2"(-6")loug; flowers white, 3"' long (the spur excluded). — Hab. Jamaica !, Pi:?., 

 ^a/teW., in moist woods ; Tio-aa!^w.\,Imr.,Bradf.; Trinidad, &.; [Cuba!]. 



72. CHLOIDIA, Undl. 



Lip anterior, free, clawed, spurless, parallel to the column, devoid of callosities : 'perigo- 

 nial divisions distinct, the superior diverging from the 2 interior ones. Column slender : 

 anther dorsal : " pollinaria 2." — Root fibrtms ; stem leafy ; leaves plaited-chartaceous ; 

 flowers in compound, short, axillary and terminal racemes : bracts small. 



220. C. flava, Gr. Stout ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate ; panicle short, sub- 

 sessile, most axillary ; bracts ovate-deltoid, concave, inferior oblong-lanceolate ; peligonial 

 divisions oblong-lmear (or linear), 2 interior as long as the lip; lip oblong-linear, chan- 

 nelled below the flat, slightly dilated, pointed, spreading-erect sumtnit. — Neottia, Sw. C. de- 

 cumbens, Lindl. (ex parte). — 6'-8' high ; leaves l'-14', panicles 3"-4", flowers 8'" long, 

 the latter pale-yellow. — Hae. Jamaica I,' Pd., in moist woods, Manchester ; [Cuba I]. 



221. C. polystachya, G. Bchb. Stem nalied below, with tumid nodes ; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; panicle terminal, peduncled, axillary shorter, subsessUe, few or 

 none : bracts lanceolate ; perigonial divisions exterior ovate-oblong, 2 interior oblong, 

 longer than the lip ; lip oblong, concave below the middle : blade ovate, pointed, recurved 

 at the margin. — Neottia, Sw. C. vemalis, lindl. I — 1'-2' high ; leaves 5"-18", terminal 

 panicle 2"-3", flowers 3'" long, the latter " pale-red." — Hab. Jamaica !, I'd., in woods, 

 Manchester, Westmoreland ; [Cuba !] . 



Ulanthe grandijlora. Hook.! (apparently a Chlorcsd), figured in Bot. Mag. t.^2956, as 

 introduced from S. Vincent, is probably not indigenous in that island, like several cultivated 

 plants sent by Kev. Mr. Guilding. 



Tmbb VI. OPSRYDEJE. — Anther wholly adnate to the column -. pollinaria 2, many- 

 lobid, attached to stigmatie glands. — Root terrestrial, usually tuberous. 



73. HABENARIA, W. 



Mp free, spurred : perigonial divisions distinct. Anther-cells diverging, distant at the 

 base: glands naked. Stigma 2-appendiculate. — Superior leaves decrescent; flowers in a 

 spike or spiciform raceme. 



* Perigonial divisions 3 inferior 2-parlite. 



322. H. maeroceratitis, W. (R.). Leaves ovate-oblong ; flowers white, distant, iu 

 a few-flowered spike ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, almost as long as the ovary ; perigonial divi- 

 sions exterior lateral reflexed, ovate-lanceolate, superior cucullate-ovate, 2 interior 3-partite : 

 their anterior segments filiform, recurved, twice as long as the posterior lanceolate ones ; 

 lip S-partite : middle segments linear, lateral ones longer, filiform : spur very long, about 

 thrice as long as tlie ovary, curved-descending, filiform, little clavate ; appendages of the 

 stigma falcate.-^^jff. Obs. t. 9.— Orchis Habenaria, L. H. macroceras, ^reng. — Tubers 

 single ; stem I'-li' high; perigone (except its longer filiform divisions) 6"'-8"', spur about 

 4" long. — Hab. Jamaica!, all coU., in grassy plains. 



223. H. maculosa, ijW;. / Leafy; leaves oblong-lanceolate; flowers white, in a 



