7.  Infrastigmatic protuberance short, poorly developed, obscurely papil- 
lose; bracts lanceolate, long-acuminate ......... E. cynarocephalus 
7a. Infrastigmatic protuberance elongate, well-developed, glabrous; bracts 
ovate-lanceolate, SHOrmly-ACUMINGLe- 62 cans ee Sidee es nheenewetes 8 
8. Petals as wide as the sepals; lip emarginate in front with a median 
GOICUM: hoy fee Stee arses dee teee rihanna ess kae eres E. cephalotus 
8a. Petals narrower than sepals; lip emarginate to bilobed in front without a 
PIPOUIN-ADICUIC: ooh enadcuscecscsc4e oSneet Pra eR eEek es cee eee ee 9 
9. Lateral sepals 3-nerved; lip coarsely lacerate-fimbriate to lacerate- 
Getitate along Margin: <4 .4.6c5 5450 oh de eee 4 aoa E. brasiliensis 
9a. Lateral sepals 5- to 7-nerved; lip minutely erose-denticulate along mar- 
MA. Hinges eas cae oe a8 ee ene eee rs E. casapensis 
ENUMERATION OF SPECIES 
Elleanthus brasiliensis (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in Walp. Ann. 6: 478, 
1862. 
Basionym: Evelyna Miecaieeee Lindl. in Hook., Lond. 
Journ. Bot. 2: 661, 1843. 
Type: Brazil; Organ einen GARDNER 642 (K). 
The specimen in the Lindley herbarium is collected by 
GARDNER 673! (K-L) which I examined. It is at variance with 
Lindley’s drawing on the same sheet where the lip is shown as 
having broadly triangular apiculate apex. However, Lindley at 
the time of original publication did not describe any floral 
details. 
Elleanthus capitatus (Poepp. & Endl.) Rchb.f. in Walp. Ann. 6: 
475, 1862. 
Basionym: Evelyna capitata Poepp. & Endl., Nov. Gen. ac 
Sp. Pl. 1: 32, 1836. 
Type: Peru; near Cuchero, POEPPIG s.n.! (W). 
Syn.: Evelyna cephalophora Rchb.f. in Bot. Zeit. 10: 709, 
1852. 
Elleanthus cephalophorus (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. in Walp. 
Ann. 6: 476, 1862. 
Type: Peru; near Cuchero, POEPPIG 1638! (W). 
The very slender plants have rather small heads. Elleanthus 
cephalophorus on one of the herbarium sheets has been anno- 
tated by Reichenbach himself in 1885 to be conspecific with E. 
capitatus. 
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