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longer than Leaf, one flower developed at a lime, but pedicels of 

 former flowers present (to 16) ; lateral sepals .^-connate 

 Griseb. <>/>. cit. 608 ; Cogn. op. cit. 423. 



On trees in moist woods ; in fl. Oct.-April ; Purdie ! near Mabess River, 

 3500-4000 ft.; near Troy, 2500 ft.; near Christiana, 3000 ft.; near John 

 Crow Peak ; Harris ! Klien Aire, Moy Hall, Sullivan ! slope of John Crow 

 Peak, 100 ft. above Mabess River, Faivccttl Fl. Jam. 7017, 7820, 8869, 

 9007, 10,399, 10,470, 10,47s. 



I'iiitit (without the raceme) - in. high. Stems about 3 mm. 1., very 

 short, closely clustered, filiform, enveloped by the membranous sheath. 

 Leaf 1-2 cm. 1., including the stalk, oblanceolate, margined, narrowed at 

 the base into a slender stalk. Racemes 2*5-4 cm. 1., generally much 

 longer than the leaf, but occasionally shorter, clustered, flowering solitary, 

 Aliform, flexuose, with several (to 16) flowers, laxly secundor in two ranks. 

 Bracts about 1 mm. 1., short, half the length of the pedicels, sheathing, 

 obtuse, shortly apiculate. Pedicels about 2 mm. 1. Floiucrs about in., 

 greenish-yellow streaked with crimson or purple. Sepals 3*75 mm. 1., 

 suberect, acuminate above and somewhat thick, obtuse ; lateral narrowly 

 ovate, about ^-connate ; median oblong or lanceolate-oblong, keeled. 

 Petals about 2 mm. 1., half as long as the sepals, cuneate, fimbriate- 

 serrulate above, acute. Lip about 3 mm. 1., a little shorter than the 

 sepals, 3-lobed ; middle lobe oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, somewhat 

 thick ; much exceeding the short broad incurved serrulate lateral lobes. 

 Column a little shorter than the petals, upper margin dilated, serrulate ; 

 clinandrium 2 or 3-dentate. Capsule 6 mm. 1., obovate-elliptical, glabrous. 



22. P. Helense Fcavc. & Bendle in Journ. Bot. xlvii. 4 (1909); 

 stems very short, clustered ; peduncle filiform, much longer than 

 the leaf, few-flowered ; sepals caudate, lateral free ; lip nearly 

 half as long as sepals. Cogn. op. cit. 424. (PI. 9, f. 9-14.) Type 

 in Herb. N. York Bot. Gard. and in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On trunks of trees; in fl. July; in fr. Aug. ; Mt. Moses, 3500 ft., J. P. 

 2279, Syme ! Mabess River, 3500 ft., Harris ! 



Plant 14-2 in. high. Stems very short, clustered ; sheaths tubular below, 

 acute. Leaf, including stalk, 10-15 mm. 1., 2-3 mm. br., oblanceolate- 

 elliptical or oblanceolate-linear, narrowed at the base into the stalk. 

 Racemes 1-5-5 cm. 1., branched. Bracts sheathing, acute or apiculate. 

 Flowers J in. 1., pale green. Sepals about 3 -25 mm. 1., pale greenish, 

 1-nerved, spreading, caudate, glabrous ; median ovate, 1 mm. br. ; lateral 

 lanceolate, free, narrower than median. Petals two-thirds as long as sepals, 

 2*6 mm. 1., *75 mm. br., pale greenish, ovate, fimbriate on the upper 

 margin, caudate at the apex. Lip half as long as the sepals when spread 

 out, 1"5 mm. 1., '75 mm. br., pale greenish marked with crimson, 3-lobed, 

 conduplicate, lateral lobes broadly rounded, fimbriate on the upper margin, 

 middle lobe ovate, obtuse. Column lined, with crimson, including the 

 conical anther, as long as the lip, slender, thicker above ; clinandrium 

 3-toothed. Capsule obovoid-ellipsoidal, 3-4 mm. 1., 2 mm. br. 



The figures in the plate are from a detailed drawing by Miss H. A. Wood, 

 after whom the plant is named. 



23. P. laneeola Spreng. Syst. Hi. 731 (1826) ; stems very 

 short, clustered ; peduncle about as long as the leaf, clustered, 

 only one flowering at a time, 2 4-flowered ; lateral sepals connate 

 at base. Lindl. Fol. Orch. Pleuroth. 40 ; Griseb. op. cit. 609 ; 

 Cogn. op. cit. 425. Epidendrum laneeola Sw. Prodr. 123 (1788). 



