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green above, sometimes spotted. Spike densely downy with white hairs. 
Flowers greenish, about 43 lines long. Poppig. 
§ 2. Labellum apice dilatatum, angulatum, aut rotundatum. 
S. Pnysurus minor. 
P. scapo tenui erecto basi folioso, foliis ellipticis acuminatis, spicà lineari 
laxà, floribus minutis, labello lineari apice dilatato emarginato, calcare 
scrotiformi ovario dupld breviore. 
Microchilus minor. Presl. Relig. Henk. 1. 94. Symb. Bot. t. 
Hab in Peruvia, Henke. 
Stem about a foot high. Flowers the smallest in the genus ; according 
to Presl's figure, arranged in a very slender spike. 
9. Puvsunvs foliosus. 
P. *labello obovato utrinque transversim inciso; lobo terminali cordato 
acuto (pediceliato) integerrimo (papilloso), calcare ovario longiore 
pendulo, spicà ovali densiflorà, scapo folioso, foliis petiolatis oblongis 
acuminatis." ; 
Pelexia foliosa. — Poppig. n. gen. et sp. 2. 17. 
Hab. in Peruvia; rara in sylvis paludosis ad Missionem Tocache flumini 
Huallagae vicinum, florens Julio, Poppig. 
A plant 6 inches high. Stem finely downy, with 6 or 7 leaves, each 
about 4 inches long, violet purple underneath. Spike surrounded by 
 acuminated vagine, otherwise naked, cylindrical, rather swelled in the 
middle, dense, obtuse, about an inch and a half long. Flowers very small, 
whitish. Poppig. 
10. Pnuvsunvs plantagineus. 
P. caule ascendente, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acutis petiolatis, scapo rachi 
ovariisque pilosis, petalis cuneatis dentatis, labello lineari acuminato 
apice ovato crenulato recurvo, calcare inflato ovario paulló breviore. 
Orchis elatior latifolia Asphodeli radice, spicá strigosi, Sloane Jam. 119, hist. 1, 250. 
CMILESM 5 
Satyrium plantagineum. Zinn. sp. pl. 1338. l 
Orchis plantaginea. Swartz. fl. Ind. occ. 1396. Willd. no. 61. 
Pelexia bursaria. Lindl. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 4. 116. 
Hab in India occidentali ; Dominicd, Henslow. (hab. s. sp.) 
Stem 14 to 2 feet high with a short few-flowered raceme of flowers as 
large as those of Goodyera macrophylla. The scape is very slender in 
comparison with the real stem, and has 3 or 4 membranous loose sheaths. 
I have no excuse to offer for having carelessly described this as a new 
species of Pelexia. 
11. Puvysunvs debilis. 
P. caule debili filiformi prostrato vix radicante, foliis ovatis obtusiusculis 
breviter petiolatis subtrinerviis internodiorum longitudine, racemo ovato 
paucifloro obtuso, bracteis lanceolatis membranaceis floribus brevioribus, 
sepalis glabris, labello apice dilatato angulato per medium bilamellato, 
calcare inflato obtuso ovarii loagitudine. 
Hab. in Brasilia; juxta predium Lumiar, pago “ Haut Macah? " dicto, 
Descourtilz, (hab. s. sp. comm. beatus Prescott.) 
