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latter 4"'-8'" broad; flowers 2'" long, "yellow and purple-variegated within."— Hab. 

 Jamaica !, Mac/., Pd., Bancr., on trees, near Blue Mountains Peak. 



31. Ii. sanguinea, Hook. "Stem filiform, about as long as the leaf : sheaths glabrous ; 

 leaf elliptical, bluntish, longer than the short, fascicled, 1 -flowered peduncles ; perigonial 

 divisions exterior deltoid, ciliate, lateral cohering to the middle, interior transversely oblong ; 

 lip-segments ovate " (sec. icon.).— Bot. Mag. t. 4112.—" About 1" high ; leaf 6"' long, 4'" 

 broad; flowers crimson." — Hab. Jamaica {Hook.). 



32. 1m. concinna, Sw. (R.). Stem filiform, puberulous, longer than the leaf: sheaths 

 with an ovate-roundish, ciliolate limb ; leaf ovate, pointed, cuneate-rounded at the base, 

 about twice as long as the single (-fascicled), distichous, spiciform, peduncled racemes ; 

 perigonial divisions exterior broadly ovate, pointed, cohering at the base, lateral to beyond 

 it, spreading, interior half as long, half-cordate-lanceolate, acuminate; "lip-segments in- 

 curved-linear, converging, inserted near the summit of the column." — Sw. Adnot. t. 2./. 4. 

 — L. tridentata, Lindl. PI. Wr. 1510 (non Bot. Reg., non Sw.).—2"-Q" high; leaf 2"-8'" 

 long, 10"'-5 w long; flowers V" long, " yellow, crimson within." — Hab. Jamaica, Wullschl., 

 on trees: [Cuba!]. 



33. Ii. cochlearifolia, Sw. Stem somewhat rigid, hispid, longer than the leaf: sheaths 

 with an ovate-roundish, ciliate limb ; leaf ovate-roundish, with a bluntish point, twice— 

 thrice as long as the fascicled, or solitary, few-flowered peduncles ; perigonial divisions ex- 

 terior ovate, acuminate, all cohering at the base, spreading, " interior transversely lanceo- 

 late-linear, acuminate, half as long ; lip-segments incurved-linear, spreading, inserted at the 

 base of the column."— Sw. Adnot. t. 2./. 1.— 2"-3"high ; leaf 1" long, 8"'-10"' broad; 

 flowers 2'" long, " purple." — Hab. Jamaica !, Wils., on trees and rocks, very rare. 



3. STELIS, Sw. 

 Character of Pleurothallis, but column short, furnished with two lateral appendages at 

 its summit. Perigonial divisions exterior cohering at the base, interior minute. — Flowers 

 racemose, usually very small. 



34. S. ophioglossoides, Sw. (L.). Leaf oblong-linear, bluntish, long-tapering at 

 the base, longer than the stem, shorter than the peduncled, 1 -sided, slender raceme; peri- 

 gonial divisions exterior deltoid, "interior and lip angular-truncate." — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 

 ^11 : leaf broader than in our forms, and racemes fascicled. — Epidendrum, Jacq. S. sca- 

 bnda, Lindl., is described as a lower plant with a narrower leaf-base ; such forms are not 

 distinguishable in the herbarium.— Leaf 4"-6"(-2£") long, 6"'-4'" broad ; flowers £"' long, 



'greenish with a tinge of purple." — Hab. Jamaica!, Wils., March; Dominica (S. sca- 

 Irida, Lindl.), S. Vincent! (apparently the same) ; Trinidad !, Bradf. ,• [Cuba ! and Mexico ! 

 to Guiana!]. 



35. S. naicrantha, Sw. (Hook. !). Leaf lanceolate-oblong, bluntish, contracted- 

 tapering at the base, usually shorter than, or as long as the stem, exceeded by the slender, 

 spiciform raceme ; flowers nodding, 1-sided-distichous ; perigonial divisions exterior deltoid, 

 "interior and lip truncate."— Leaf 2i"-l" long, 8"'-4'" broad ; flowers "whitish, red within." 

 —Hab. Jamaica !, March, on trees and rocks in the mountains. 



4. OCTOMERIA, R. Br. 



Lip jointed with the produced base of the column : perigonial divisions nearly distinct, 

 interior inserted into the base of the column. Column naked : pollinia 8, obovate-obloug, 

 —Stem 1-leaved, as in Pleurothallis ; flowers fascicled, at the base of the leaf. 



36: O. graminifolia, R. Br. (R.) Leaf lanceolate-linear ; flowers " pale-yellow, with 

 two red spots ;" perigonial divisions ovate-laneeolate, interior little shorter; lip cuneate- 

 oblong, blunt, or minutely denticulate at the summit, obliquely 2-cresled, and with 2 short 

 lateral lobes at the middle.— Bot. Mag. t. 2764.— Epidendrum, L— Stems serial along a 

 creeping, primary axis ; leaf 4'" broad ; flowers 3'" long. , . . • 



a. Leaf longer than the stem (5"-4" long) ; lip nearly as long as the interior pengone. 



0. ophioglossoides. Leaf about as long as the stem (3" long) ; lip half as long as the in- 

 terior perigoue. — Stelis ophioglossoides, Oieb. PI. Mixt. 452 ! (non Sw.). 



Hab. Dominica!, Imr. (a, 0) ; [Guadeloupe ! (£)"]. 



