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2. Petals entire ; lip simple. 



5. H. Purdiei Fawc. & Bendle in Journ. Bot. xlvii. 263 (1909); 

 leaves lanceolate ; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the stalked 

 ovary ; sepals very obtuse ; spur much longer than ovary. Ames 

 op. cit. iv. 270. (PL 2, f. 1-3.) Type in Herb. Kew. 



Hollis's Savanna, Clarendon, Purdiei 



Plant 1J ft. high. Stem about 3 dm. 1., 3*5 mm. br. Leaves thin, 

 conspicuously reticulate-ll-15-nerved, acute, to 8 cm. 1., to l - 9 cm. br. 

 Baceme, about 12 cm. 1., somewhat laxly many-fid., oblong in outline. 

 Bracts acuminate, lower 1*7 cm. 1. Pedicel about 5 mm. 1. Ovary 1-1-8 

 cm. 1. Flowers somewbat spreading. Sepals reticulate-3-nerved, nerves 

 prominent outside ; median suborbicular, margin minutely denticulate, 

 8*5 mm. 1., 7*7 mm. br. ; lateral oval-oblong-falcate, concave, about 11 

 mm. 1., about 5 mm. br. Petals oblong, very obtuse, 2-nerved, 6 mm. 1., 

 2 mm. br. Lip linear-ligulate, margin revolute, with a small tooth on 

 each side above the base, pendulous, half as long again as the sepals, 13 

 mm. 1., nearly 2 mm. br. Spur slender, compressed, tapering to apex, 

 nearly 3 cm. 1. Stigmatic processes tbick and fleshy at apex, about 

 2 mm. 1. ; anther-canals nearly twice as long, about 3'3 mm. 1., ascending; 

 anther acutely crested (in the specimen examined). 



Near H. obtusa Lindl., from Brazil and Surinam, but differs in the 

 smaller lanceolate bracts and in other details. 



6. H. alata Hook, in Exot. Fl. t. 169 (1827) ; bracts ovate to 

 lanceolate, acuminate, apex shortly awned, about as long as the 

 stalked ovary ; sepals acute ; petals acute, linear-lanceolate. 

 Griseb. op. cit. 644 ; Ames op. cit. iv. 273. H. brachyceras 

 Lindl. op. cit. 315 (1835), non Spreng. H. monorrhiza Cogn. 

 op. cit. 307 excl. syn. (in part). (PI. 1, f. 4-7.) 



In damp clayey ground ; in fl. Nov.-April; Macfadyenl Purdiei Priori 

 Golden Spring," J.P. 466, Morris I Farm Hill, Miss B. Gosset I Salt Hill 

 Road ; Westphalia, 4000 ft. ; Halls Delight, 1000 ft. ; below Cinchona, 

 4000 ft. ; Harris I Fl. Jam. 7526, 7806, 10,470, 10,500. Cuba, Porto Rico, 

 St. Thomas, Antigua, St. Vincent, Grenada, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa 

 Rica, Venezuela, Bolivia. 



Plant reaching sometimes to 3J feet. Stem leafy, covered by the leaf- 

 sheaths, 2-5 dm. 1. Leaves lanceolate, acute, passing from a sheath at 

 the base into bracts above, 7-16 cm. L, 1-2*4 cm. br. Baceme somewhat 

 laxly many-fid., 10-15 cm. 1. Bracts 2-7-2 cm. 1., 4-6 mm. br. Flowers 

 green. Sepals reticulate-7-nerved, keeled, median broadly ovate, 6-8 mm. 

 1., 4 - 5-6 mm. br. ; lateral ovate, acute, 7-9 mm. 1., 3-4-5 mm. br. Petals 

 reticulate-3-nerved, with a small projecting lobe on the anterior side near 

 the base, 6-7-5 mm. 1., 1-75-2 mm. at greatest width. Lip linear-ligulate, 

 margin revolute, with or without a small tooth on each side above the 

 base, spreading or ascending, 6-8 mm. 1., about 1 mm. br. Spur pendulous, 

 clavate, slightly shorter than the ovary, 1-2-1-4 cm. 1. Stigmatic 

 processes short, compressed ; anther-canals subequal, ascending. Capsule 

 6-winged. 



7. H. soeialis Fawc. & Bendle loc. cit. ; bracts lanceolate, 

 acuminate, about as long as the stalked ovary ; lateral sepals 

 2-nerved, oblong, retuse, about 4- 3 mm. 1., about 2 mm. br. ; 

 petals oblong, apex emarginate, the nerves ending in two pro- 



