Tas. 6521. 
STELIS Bricxmiiert. 
Native of the Andes. 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—Tribe PLEUROTHALLEZ. 
Genus Srezis, Swartz ; (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 11.) 
Sreis Briickmiilleri; cespitosa, glaberrima, folio elliptice-lanceolato in petiolum 
angustato apice 2-fido convexo medio profunde canaliculato, racemo solitario 
filiforme folio duplo longiore erecto multifloro, floribus numerosis dissitis 
undique spectantibus, bracteis infundibularibus ore valde obliquo infimis 
— vacuis, perianthio }-poll. diam., sepalis equalibus late ovatis subacutis 
asi connatis pallide purpureis intus longe sparse pilosis, petalis dolabriformibus, 
labio parvo peltatim stipitato stipite geniculato, lamina ovato-oblonga obtusa 
basi truncata medio longitudinaliter alata, columna apice utrinque late auriculata 
auriculis patentibus obovato-rotundatis. 
8. Briickmiilleri, Reichd. f. in Hort. Veitch. 
‘This singular little orchid resembles the green-flowered 
Stelis oppioglossoides of Swartz, a West Indian plant, 
figured in the Botanical Register (tab. 935), but has smaller 
leaves and flowers, and the latter are of a purple colour 
and hairy inside; the bracts too are different, those of the 
species here figured resembling funnel-shaped cups with 
very oblique mouths. Like all the other species of the 
genus, it is of botanical interest rather than horticultural. 
The specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens 
in December of last year from plants presented by Messrs. 
Veitch, of the Royal Exotic Nurseries, Chelsea, and was 
named as above by Professor Reichenbach, but I do not 
find it described anywhere. It is probably a native of the 
Mexican Andes. : 
Descr. Tufted. Leaves one and a half to two inches 
long, exclusive of the petiole, which is as long, one-half. 
to two-thirds of an inch broad, elliptic-lanceolate, rather 
narrower at the base than at the bifid tip, convex above 
ocTOBER Ist, 1880. 
