29. Flowers aggregate, sessile; sepals and petals more or less 
BIA vated e $46 bee ees dsr aoe enes Octomeria 
(Octandrorchis) 
29a. Flowers on long, slender peduncles; sepals and petals dis- 
SOMA aaeeeves ke hesns oe ene sexes ses Pleurothallopsis 
STELIS* Swartz 
in Schrader’s Journal fiir die Botanik 2 (4):239, t.II, Fig. 3, a-g, 
1799; Fl. Ind. Occid. 3: 1549, 1998, 1804; in K. Vetensk. Acad. 
Nya Handl. Stockh. 21: 248, 1800; in Schrd. N. Journ. 1: 97, 
1805; Spreng., Anleit. I., 1:288, 1802; Syst. 3: 730, 1826; Gen. 2: 
669, 1831; Willd., Sp. Pl. 4: 138, 1805; Pers., Syn. 2: 524, 1807; 
R. Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 5:210, 1813; Kunth in Humb. 
& Bonpl., Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. 1:361, 1816; Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 
103, 1827; Lindl., Gen. and Sp. Orch. Pl. 11, 1830; in Bot. Reg. 
28: Misc. p. 68, 1842; Folia Orch. Stelis 1858; Poepp. & Endl., 
Nov. Gen. ac Sp. Pl. 1: 46, 1836; Endlich., Gen. Pl. 188, 1836; 
Reichenbach fil. in Walp. Ann. Bot. Syst. 3: 524, 1852; ibid. 6: 
198, 1861; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind. Isl. 611, 1864; Bentham in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18: 292, 1881; in Benth. & Hook., Gen. 
Pl. 3: 490, 1883; Hemsley in Gard. Chron. n.s. 12: 108, 1879; 
ibid. n.s. 16: 136, 1881; in Godman & Salvin, Biol. Centr. -Amer. 
Bot. 3: 203, 1883; Barb. Rodr., Gen. et. Sp. Orch. Nov. 2:82, 
1882; Pfitzer in Engl. & Prantl. Die Natirl. Pflanzenfam. 2(6): 
138, 1888; in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 19: 20, 1894: Stein, Orchideen- 
buch 568, 1892; Kerch., Le Livre des Orchidées 263, 1894; Cog- 
niaux in Mart., Fl. Bras. 3(4): 342, 1896; in Urb., Symb. Antill. 
6: 385, 1910; Porsch in Denkschr. Akad. Wissensch. Wien 79 (1): 
104, 1908; Fawce. & Rendle, Fl. Jamaica 1: 50, 1910; Schlechter, 
Die Orchideen 175: 1914; ed. 2, 171, 1927; Lemée, Dict. Descr. & 
Syn. Gen. Pl. Phanerog. 6: 271, 1935; Ames in Field Mus. Bot. 
Ser. 18(1): 295, 1938; Acuna in Bol. Tec. No. 60. Esta. Agron. 
Cuba 116, 1939; Stehle, Fl. Descr. Antill. Franc. 1: 180, 1939: 
Pittier et al, Cat. Fl. Venez. 1: 203; 1945; Leon, Fl. Cuba 1: 365, 
1946; L. O. Williams in Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 33: 55, 1946; in 
Ceiba 2: 75, 1951; Hoehne, Iconogr. Orch. Brasil 204, 1949; 
*ETYMOLOGIA: Stelis, vox graeca, significat viscum quod arbori innascitur, quae 
natura huius generis est.” Swartz /oc.cit. 
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