416 A. Coantaux: 
-Pleurothallis tribuloides Lindl.! Gen. and Sp. Orch. (1830) p. 6, 
Fol. Orch., Pleuroth. p. 39; Griseb. Flor. p. 609, Cat. p. 258, Sauv. 
Fl. Oub. p. 226; Kränzl. in Rehb.f.. Xen. Orch. III p. 151 t. 275 
f. III et 14— 19. 
Epidendrum tribuloides Sw.! Prodr. (1788) p. 123. 
Dendrobium tribuloides Sw.! Flor. III (1806) p.1535, Adnot. l.L. 
Cymbidium tribuloides Spreng. Syst. Veg. III (1826) p. 721 
Pleurothallis spathulata A. Rich. et Gal. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3. III 
(1845) p. 17. 
Pleurothallis fallax Rehb.f. in Bonplandia III (1855) p. 224; 
Lindl.! Orch. Wright. p. 3. 
Flores rubri. — Fl. I, U; fe. I, X. 
Hab. in Cuba supra arbores ad Faralones: Wright n. 663; Ja- 
maica in sylvis supra arbores ad Mount Airy alt. 650 m., ad Belvidere 
alt. 150 m., ad Port Antonio: Swartz, Maefadyen, Purdie, Wilson 
n. 156, Wullschlaegel, W. Harris in Herb. Bot. Dep. n. 7546, 7648, 
A.E. Wright n. 108. — Mexico, Costarica. 
C. Depauperatae Cogn. — Spec. 144. . 
144. Pleurothallis uneinata Fawc. rhizomate tortuoso, ramos0, 
nodoso, 4—6 mm. crasso; caulibus robustis, 10—24 cm. longis, leviter 
compressis biangulatis, 5—6-articulatis, vaginis scariosis laevibus 
acutis 5—7 em. longis vestitis; folio sessili, coriaceo, oblongo-ligulato, 
acutiusculo, basi satis angustato, 14— 22 cm. longo, 21/,—4 cm. lato; 
pedunculo solitario, robusto, brevissime hirtello, unifloro, basi 1—2- 
vaginato, apice 1-bracteato, 3-4 cm. longo; bractea inferne vaginante, 
acuta, brevissime hirtella, 10— 12 mm. longa; flore erecto, segmentis 
erectis, omnibus crasse carnosis; sepalis anguste triangularibus, ab- 
rupte acutis, extus minute denseque asperulis, 15— 16 mm. longis, 
inferne 4—5 mm. latis, lateralibus primum fere usque ad apicem 
connatis demum fere liberis; petalis lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, laevibus, 
extus tricostatis, 7—8 mm. longis, 1!/, mm. latis; labello lineari-ligu- 
lato, obtuso, dorso carinato, margine undulato-erenulato, 6—7 mm. 
longo, 1!/, mm. lato, obsolete trilobato, lobis lateralibus fere indistinetis, 
in processum uncinatum columnam amplectentem productis, disco basi 
calloso; columna crassa, 6 mm. longa; capsula oblonga, profunde 
6-sulcata, minute dnissans verruculosa et brevissime hirtella, 20— 
23 mm. longa, 9—10 mm. erassa. 
Pleurothallis uncinata Fawe.! in Journ. of Bot. XXXIII (195) 
p. 12, in Jamaica Bull. LI. 10 (1895) p. 217; Fawe. et Rendle, Orch. 
of Zum ined. t. 10. } 
Flores purpurascentes, petalis basi aurantiacis. Fl. IV, X; fr. I, VL. ‘ 
