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224. Seraphyta diffusa (Sw.) Schlechter: caulibus pluribus, 
robustiusculis, inferne teretiusculis, superne valde compressis anci- 
pitibusque, 15—35 cm. longis; foliis distichis, oblongis vel ovato- 
oblongis, apice obtusis interdum rotundatis, basi amplexicaulibus cum 
vagina articulatis, 4—9 cm. longis, 2—3 em. latis; panicula 2—4 dm. 
longa, ramis elongatis, filiformibus, diffusis, satis ramulosis; pedicellis 
1—3 mm. longis; sepalis lineari-lanceolatis, acutissimis, 7 mm. longis, 
1!/, mm. latis; petalis filiformibus, 7 mm. longis; labello erecto, anguste 
ovato-cordato, breviter acuminato, margine integerrimo, 5 mm. longo, 
—31/, mm. lato, disco tenuiter tricostato basi minute bicalloso; columna 
21/,—3 mm. longa. 
Seraphyta diffusa Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII (1899) 
p. 542. 
Epidendrum diffusum Sw. Prodr. (1788) p.12, in Nov. Act. 
Ups. VI p. 68, in Schrad. Journ. Bot. II p. 211, Flor. III p. 1503; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. tab. 846; Hook. in Bot. Mag. tab. 3565; Lindl. Orch. 
Wright. p. 7; Griseb. Flor. p. 619, Cat. p. 263; Sauv. Fl. Oub. p. 228; 
Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. III. 5 p. 154. 
Seraphyta multiflora Fisch. et Mey. in Bull. Acad. Seient. St. Petersb. 
VII (1840) p. 25. 
Flores flavo-virides, in sicco rubescentes, Fl.I, II, XI, XI; fr. I. 
Hab. in Cuba orientali in rupibus: Wright n. 3325; Jamaica 
supra arbores rarius in saxis ad Banana River, Ramble, Claremont, 
Belvidere, Lancaster, Clydesdale, alt. 160—1000 m.: Swartz, Mac- 
fadyen, Wullschlaegel, Eggers n. 3446, W. Harris in Herb. Bot. Dep. 
n. 7245, 7625, 7656, 7770. — Mexico, Guatemala, Surinam. 
Subtribus II. Cattleyeae Pfitz. 
Pfitz. Natürl. Anord. Orch. (1887) p.108 et in Engl. und Pranil, Natürl. 
Pflanzenfam. II. 6 p. 143. 
Labellum columnam apodem amplectens, cum ea connatum, vel ei 
insertum. 
XL. Pleuranthium Benth. 
Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. XVIII (1881), in Benth. et Hook. 
Gen. III p. 526. — Epidendrum sect. Euepidendrum $ Pleuranthium 
Pfitz. in Engl. und Prantl, Natürl. Pflanzenfam. II.6 (1888) p. 145. 
Sepala subaequilonga, libera, patentia, lateralia basi obliqua 
mentum -paulo productum formantia. Petala sepalis subsimilia. La- 
belli unguis erectus et cum columna connatus, rarius liber et bre- 
vissimus; lamina patens, lata, leviter vel obscure trilobata; discus in- 
ferne bi —trieallosus. Columna brevissima vel longiuscula, crassa, 
apoda, exalata, fere ad apicem cum labello connata rarius libera; 
