lavender tinged with green, or green dotted with pink 
or dark violet and a greenish white lip. Dorsal sepal 
ovate-oblong, concave, acute or short-acuminate, about 
7-9 mm. long and 38-4 mm. wide. Lateral sepals ob- 
liquely lanceolate-ovate, acute or short-acuminate, about 
7-8.7 mm. long and 2.8—4 mm. wide near the base which 
is decurrent on the column-foot. Petals lanceolate- 
oblong or elliptic-oblong, more or less oblique, abruptly 
subacute to acute or apiculate, 6.1-8.9 mm. long, 2-8 
mm. wide. Lip slightly exceeding the sepals, articulated 
to the column-foot without a claw, obovate-pandurate 
in outline with a cuneate base, either truncate or very 
broadly rounded and apiculate or lightly retuse and apic- 
ulate in front, arcuate-recurved below, with more or less 
incurved sides, about 7—-8.5 mm. long when expanded 
and 3.4-6.83 mm. wide across the apical portion; dise 
below with a more or less prominent, large, fleshy, con- 
cave or suleate callus which is extended into verruculose 
lines above. Column conspicuous, arcuate, prominently 
auriculate-dilated at the apex, about 5—-6.6 mm. long, 
produced into a short foot. 
Puerto Rico: El Yungue, on trees near summit of Mt. Britton, in 
fruit, June 22, 1952 (flowered in greenhouse March 30, 1953), D.S. 
Correll & H. F. Winters s.n. 
Venezueta: Geitner s.n. (type of Ponera punctulata). 
Peru: Hudnuco, Cierra Azul, on Pucallpa Road, at 3500 feet alti- 
tude, in road cut, terrestrial in moss, December 1, 1945, flower “‘lav- 
ender tinged green,”’ R.J. Seibert 2252,—Junin: Pichis Trail, Knefias, 
at 1700 meters altitude, epiphyte in open sphagnum swamp, July 1, 
1929, E. P. Killip & A. C. Smith 25675, 25690. 
Scaphyglottis punctulata (Reichb.f.) C. Schweinf. 
var. Summersii (L. O. Wms.) C. Schweinfurth comb. 
nov. 
Scaphyglottis Summersu 1.0. Williams in Bot. Mus. 
Leafl. Harvard Univ. 9 (1940) 14, t. 8, figs. 4-7. 
After careful study, | have concluded that the plant 
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