546 A. CoanIaux: 
328. Cattleyopsis Ortgiesiana (Rehb.f.) Cogn. pseudobulbis cylin- 
draceo-pyriformibus, artieulatis, apicee 1—3-phyllis; foliis erasse car- 
nosis, rigidis, lineari-ligulatis, apice rotundatis vel oblique emarginatis, 
margine revolutis, 7—10 em. longis, 10—13 mm. latis; pedunculo 
communi gracillimo, compresso, simpliei, superne plurifloro, 15—30 em. 
longo; pedicellis gracillimis, cum ovario 2 em. longis; bracteis rigidis, 
late ovato-triangularibus, acutis, 2—3 mm. longis; sepalis oblongo- 
ligulatis, acutis, 5-nervulosis, 16 mm. longis, 5 mm. latis; petalis late 
obovatis, apice rotundato-subretusis, 15 mm. longis, 12 mm. latis; 
labello cum columna in cupulam brevissimam connato, late obovato- 
suborbiculari, basi cordato, apice leviter emarginato, margine crispulo 
et crenulato, 15 mm. longo, 14 mm. lato, disco tenuiter pluricostato, 
costis glabris laevibusque; columna claviformi, supra basin minute 
obtuseque bidentata, 4 mm. longa. 
Bletia Ortgiesiana Rehb.f.! in Hamb. Gartenz. (1860) p. 120, 
Xenia Orch. II p. 61. 
Sepala petalaque roseo-purpurea, labellum intense purpureum. 
Hab. in Cuba: R. de la Sagra. 
XLVJH. Tetramicra Lindl. 
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. (1831) p.119; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. IH 
p. 532 (part). — Brassavola part. Pfitz. in Eingl. und Pranll, 
Natürl. Pflanzenfam. II.6 (1888) p. 148. 
Sepala subaequalia, libera, patentia. Petala sepalis similia. 
Labellum basi columnae affixum, liberum vel basi cum columna 
brevissime connatum, patens, trilobatum; lobi laterales in ungue brevi 
distineti, nune ampli patentes, nunc parvi auriculiformes; medius latus, 
integer, basi contraetus. Columna erecta, superne vel a basi late 
bialata; elinandrii lobi vel dentes laterales saepe membranacei, posticus 
parvus. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, loculis 2 distinetis, 
septo longitudinali interdum vix prominente imperfecte bilocellatis; 
pollinia perfecta 4, cerea, per paria in loculis segregata, parallele 
VOIAPECHRN, appendiculis a basi marginibus applieitis connexa, additis 
in quoque loeulo polliniis 2 parvis vel imperfectis, ab apice appendi- 
cularum descendentibus, Capsula oblonga, erostris. — Herbae ter- 
restres vel epiphyticae, Indiae occidentalis incolae, rhizomate repente, 
caulibus foliatis vix inerassatis nee pseudobulbosis. Folia e rhizo- 
mate intra vaginas imbricatas ad basin scapi 1—3, linearia, carnosa, 
semiteretia vel brevissima erassaque, vel fere subulata graminea. 
Pedunculus terminalis, elongatus, tenuis, rigidus. Racemus sim- 
plex, laxus, floribus mediocribus pedicellatis. Bracteae parvae. 
