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sheathing bract at base: leaves 2, with loose closed sheaths, the sessile 

 blade narrowly or broadly elliptical, the lower obtuse or acutish, 1| to 

 2 inclies long, the upper acute and somewhat smaller : raceme rather 

 loose, 2 or 3 inches long ; bracts spreading, persistent, a line long or 

 less; pedicels short (1 Mines in fruit): flowers yellow; lateral sepals 

 semicordate, acute, closely contiguous behind the posticous lip, the 

 lower attenuate-lanceolate and slightly longer; petals liuear ; lip 

 broadly triangular, acute, with narrowly hastate or rounded basal 

 lobes: capsule (immature) oblong, 2 lines long. Rio Blanco, on 

 grassy hillsides; August. (350.) 



LiPAKis Galeottiana, Hemsl. ? Near L. elUptica, Reichenb. f., 

 but distinct from it, at least as represented in herb. Gray by 1410 

 Fendler, from near Tovar, Venezuela, the same region from which the 

 original of L. elUptica came. Palmer's specimens differ especially in 

 the longer, more slender, and more curved column, and in the lip (5 

 lines long), vvliich is subquadrate-elliptical, broad and very obtuse at 

 the summit and somewhat cordate at base. The ovary is very slender, 

 scarcely thicker than the pedicel, and the brownish petals are longer 

 than the sepals. The lip is yellowish, deeply tinged and strongly 

 veined with dark brown. Rio Blanco, on grassy hillsides; August. 

 (349.) 



Blktia campanulata, Llav. & Lex. Agreeing nearly with the 

 characters as given by Reichenbach (Bonplaudia, 2. 22). The laminjE 

 of the lip (H inches long) broaden upward and terminate abruptly 

 near the deep sinus of the broadly obcordate middle lobe, and the 

 veins of the lateral lobes are very prominent or even wing-dilated. 

 Barranca. (127). — Palmer describes the lip as light purple below, 

 canary-color in the middle, and dark purple above. 



Bletia ? Tall, with longer, narrower, and longer-acuminate 



leaves tluin the last, the flowers nearly as large ; sepals more acumi- 

 nate ; middle lobe of the lip subquadrate, little contracted above the 

 very broad lateral lubes, crispate, subtruncate above and apiculate, the 

 5 lamina; broadest in the middle, three of them gradually narrowing 

 upward nearly to the apex; lateral veins not prominent: capsule 2 

 inches long, narrow, doubly winged at the angles. Rio Blanco, in 

 grassy bottoms ; September. (752.) — Apparently the same as 2812 

 Bourgeau, referred to B. campanulata. 



Bletia ? Habit and foliage similar to the last, but with a 



single leaf and the flowers smaller (an inch long) : sepals and petals 

 oblanceolate, acute, nearly equal ; lip not crispate, the lateral lobes 

 triangular, obtuse (5 or 6 lines long), the middle long-produced (6 or 



