82 



Mexico. " Flowers pale purplish brown, somewhat spurred." 



doubtful plant, of which nothing more is known. 



A very 



Section 4. Muscos.*:. Pedunculi filiformes, simplices aut bifidi 

 rarius apice multifidi (folio plerumque longiores). 

 maxima pro parte minores, nonnunquam minimae. 



97. P. ephemera ; folio oblongo emarginato basi paulo angnstiore pedunculo 

 capillari paucifloro nunc gemino subaequali, ovario trialato, sepalis line- 

 aribus acummatis carinatis lateralibus basi connatis, petalis nanis lan- 



ceolatis acuminatis, labello lineari recurvo Brazil, Descourtilz. 



* lowers orange-yellow, nearly an inch long. Petals pink. Obs. The 

 lateral sepals are described by M. Descourtilz as distinct, except at the 

 p .? ; the y are represented in his drawing as being connate 



y». V. linearis (Specklinia 1 linearis, L. no. 5.) ; caule ancipiti folio lineari- 

 oblongo subtnpl6 longiore, spicis capillaribus bifloris : altero folio sub- 



ffiquali, altero duplo breviore. Mexico and Peru. Caules caepitosi, 



2 -d-unciales. Foha uncialia, apice sequalia, obtusa. 



yy. y. parvifoha (Lmdl. in Comp. to Bot. Mag. 2.) ; folio minimo ovali acuto 

 emargmato subsessili, pedunculo solitario folio longiore, sepalis oblongis 

 acutis infenore emarginato majore, petalis nanis obovatis, labello oblon-o 

 obtuso apice maculate Brazil. 



100. P. muscoidea (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1338, misc. 165.) ; c^espitosa, acau- 

 lis, iolio ovah biconvexo, pedunculo setaceo bifloro, perianthio explanato 

 nngente, sepalis hneari-lanceolatis lateralibus basi im4 connatis, petalis 

 muito minonbus conformibus, labello oblongo-lineari obtuso canalicu- 



lato , polhnns 2 pyriformibus connatis. Brazil. The smallest 



urcnidaceous plant known. Leaves 2\ lines long. The peduncle is as 

 fine as a hair and about four lines long. Flowers purple. 



101. V. Lanceola (Spreng. Syst. 3. 731. Specklinia Lanceola, L. no. 2.); 

 caulibus brevissimis caespitosis, folio lanceolato subpetiolato, pedunculo 

 capillan bifloro longitudine folii, sepalis obtusis patentibus, petalis apice 



j vi ii m **r 



luteo) . Jamaica . 



trifid 



(p 



103. 



tatis cauli eequahbus, pedunculk foliorum longitudine apice plurifloris, 

 T, K ° n tusi " antlC0 Wdentato concavo, petalis spatulatis apice rhom- 

 oe.s labello oblongo retuso scabro a latere repando, columna petaloidea 



tK*^7 ■ ~r The 0r S an Mountains furnished Mr. Miers with 



anlTandTS WgT W ^ 8tem8 ^^ are not more tha * 



r^nt^T [ S P eckUnia P^taginea, Poppig & Endl. 1 t. 89 a.); 

 csespitosa, caule brevi^simn *vj^. ~^;~i^- -Ti , . ,. ., , y 



vissimo 



culis capillaribus unifloris ^1^^ 



™™«f; i k n i UU1U 7 1S ' 8 f pans OYato-oblongis acutis ad medium 



connatis, labello lanceolato obtuso. /W_V~* ™*. i.^o.nU 



Peru. Very near Lanceola, 



graminea 



seems to be rather a Maxillaria. It cannot be even of the Pleurothalh- 



dous division* 



104. P 'pusilla i (De n drobiumpustllum,n.B.K. 1. 357.); caule monophyllo, 

 toho elliptico acutmsculo, pedunculis solitariis aut ternis uni vel bifloris, 



sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminato-filiformibus. Loxa. Herba 



mmuta. Caules simplices, apice monophylli, subsemipollicares. Folium 





