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forata. Pedunculi graciles, angulati. Pedicelli teretiusculi v. an- 
gulosi, tenues v. erassiusculi. Umbelle szpe opposite, foliorum 
autem lapsu laterales fiunt. Calycis tubus 13-21" longus. Fila- 
menta capillaria, longiora 4-6" metientia. Antherc 1—1" longs. 
Stylus pene sesquilineam squans, angulatus, stigmate minuto 
convexo terminatus. Fructus 2—3" longi; vertex capsule con- 
vexus; valve tenuioris consistentie, quam ec plerarumque con- 
generum, circiter 1" longz, medio scilicet septifere; disepimenta 
acutiuseula. Semina sterilia fulva, 1—2" longa, plus minus clavata 
v. rhombea ; fertilia circiter 1" longa, nigrescentia, ovata, opaca, 
latere ventrali planiuscula v. concava, latere dorsali convexa. 
Distribui antea hancce speciem sub nomine E. cinerez, quippe 
quz signa ex icone citata patent, ad recognitionem stirpis Siemsii 
non sufficiant. E. spodophylla systematice divellitur ab E. pulve- 
rulenta jam corticis textura et staminum brevitate. 
OncnIDE. 
Sturmia cclogynoides. 
(Sect. Cestichis.) 
Caulibus brevibus pseudobulbeis bi-triarticulatis mono- v. di- 
phyllis, articulis truneato- v. quadrato-ovatis, foliis chartaceis 
prominenter multinerviis lanceolatis acuminatis in basin petiolarem 
longe angustatis, pedunculo ancipite, racemo pluri- v. multifloro, 
bracteis submembraneis lanceolatis subulato-acuminatis pedicellos 
subzquantibus, sepalis florum parvorum lanceolatis, petalis linea- 
ribus, labello membraneo securiformi flabellato-venoso viz calloso 
antice eroso-crenulato. 
In silvis primzvis ad flumen Clarence River. Dr. Beckler. 
Rhizoma prorepens, fibrillas filiformes plurimas magis minusve 
elongatas producens. Caules e rhizomate plures, ex articulis 
tereti-compressis constantes, quorum imus 1-1" longus et in statu : 
saltem recente lzvis, alter superioresve breviores. Vagins caules 
eireumelaudentes, primum equitantes, pallida; infime nervoss, 
membranes, À-l" longs et late, fere deltoidez, state in filorum 
copiam mutat; superiores foliacesm, complicato-semilanceolatee, 
1-21"longs. Folia basi cum articulis caulis articulata, digitum 
usque spithamam rarius pedem longa, angusto- v. elongato-lanceo- 
lata, acute et minus gradatim in apicem quam in basin angustata, 
nervis plurimis alternatim crassioribus striata, 1-1" lata. Pedunculi 
terminales, solitarii, addito racemo pedales, rarius longiores fre- 
quentius breviores, graciles, bracteis paucis lanceolato-linearibus 
subulato-aeuminatis alternantibus j-1" longis muniti. Racemus 
3-8'longus. Bractes lanceolatze, subulato-acutatz, margine in- 
eurvz, superiores circiter 3" longz, inferiores non raro ad longi- 
tudinem semuncialem et majorem elongatz. Pedicelli floriferi 
tenuissime filiformes, fere capillares, germine conspieue longiores, 
