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Petala sepalo postico similia nisi paulo minora et angustiora. La- 
bellum cum pede columnae articulatum vel continuum, basi con- 
tractum ineumbens, dein erectum, apice patens, indivisum vel obscure 
1 lobatum. Columna longiuscula, apice biaurieulata, basi in pedem 
brevem saepe membranaceo-dilatatum producta; elinandrium integrum 
vel antiee bidentatum. Anthera terminalis, opereularis, ineumbens, 
4 : biloeularis; pollinia 4, cerea, in quoque loculo 2, ovoidea vel globosa, 
'haud compressa, inappendiculata, libera vel vix visco parco connexa. 
— Herbae epiphyticae, ramosae, Americae tropicae incolae. Rami 
novelli quotannis ab apice rami annotini solitarii vel gemini, basi 
vaginis paleaceis stipati, apice bifoliati, demum carnoso-incrassati, 
pseudobulbos lineares vel anguste fusiformes formantes. Folia angusta, 
coriacea vel submembranacea. Flores parvi, inter folia ad basin 
innovationum gemini vel fasciculati, pedicellis basi bracteatis. 
215. Seaphyglottis prolifera (R. Br.) Cogn. caulibus numerosis, 
dense fasciculatis, diehotome ramosissimis, 1—2 dm. longis; foliis sub- 
oppositis, coriaceis, lineari-ligulatis, apice obtusissimis et suboblique 
emarginatis, 2 —4 cm. longis, 2—5 mm. latis; floribus geminatis vel 
fasciculatis, subsessilibus; sepalis anguste oblongo-subspathulatis, acutis, 
trinervulosis, 5 mm. longis, dorsali 1!/, mm. lato, lateralibus vix 
latioribus; petalis anguste lineari-subspathulatis, obtusissimis, 5 mm. 
longis, ®/, mm. latis; labello indiviso, oblongo-spathulato, apice rotun- 
dato et leviter retuso, margine integerrimo, 5 mm. longo, superne 
2!/, mm. lato; columna inappendiculata, 4 mm. longa; capsula anguste 
ovoidea, 4 mm. longa. 
Scaphyglottis prolifera Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. III.5 (1898) p.16. 
Isochilus prolifer R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2. V (1815) 
p. 209; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. X tab. 825 (exel. syn. Sw.). 
Isochilus proliferum Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. (1831) p. 113 (excl. 
syn. Sw.). 
Ponera prolifera Rehb.f. in Bonplandia II (1854) p.22; Griseb. 
Flor. p. 623 (excl. syn. Sw.). 
@ Flores albi vel pallide flavi. Fl. V. 
Hab. in Grenada supra arbores in sylvis ad mont. Mirabeau, 
St. Georges, Annandale: Broadway n. 2515; Trinidad ad Maracas, 
Aprio, Caparo: Broadway n. 1644, 2331. — Guiana, Brasilia. 
XXXII. Neo-Urbania Fawc. et Rendle. 
Fawe, et Rendle in Journ. of Bot. XLVII (1909) p. 125. 
Sepala aequalia, eonniventia, posticum liberum, lateralia pedi 
columnae adnata, mentum sub labello formantia. Petala sepalo postieo 
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