Lepanthopsis microlepanthes (Grisch.) Ames, 
comb, nov. 
Pleurothallis microlepanthes Grisebach F 1. Brit. West 
Ind. (1864) 610—Cogniaux in Urban Symb. Antill. 
6 (1909) 480—Fawcett & Rendle Fl. Jam. 1 (1910) 
65. 
My conception of this species is based on the speci- 
mens in the Herbarium of the New York Botanical Gar- 
den and on a drawing in my herbarium of the Wilson 
plant collected in 1857 and preserved at Kew. The gy- 
nostemium of the Cuban specimens suggests very closely 
the gynostemium of 1. melanantha. The flowers of Léon, 
Clement & Roca no. 10871 are described as having been 
yellow. Lateral sepals 1 mm. long, connate for the 
greater part of their length, forming an ovate, apically 
bifid lamina which is only slightly longer than the label- 
lum. Dorsal sepal very broadly ovate, obtuse, about 1 
mm. long. Petals less than 1 mm. long, about half as long 
as the dorsal sepal is wide, narrowly elliptical, obtuse. 
Labellum obscurely or very shortly clawed, apparently 
sessile, orbicular, smooth, ecallose, slightly lessthan 1mm. 
long. All the perianth organs are tenuous and without 
conspicuous nerves. Gynostemium minute, slightly di- 
lated above the middle, the stigmas after pollination be- 
come much swollen and form erect, terminal, semi-glo- 
bular protuberances which occupy almost the entire area 
of the clinandrium. 
The diminutive gynostemium is very difficult to in- 
terpret from dried specimens, consequently information 
regarding the exact position and nature of the stigmas 
antecedent to pollination will have to await studies of 
fresh material. That the stigmas are terminal and in con- 
formity to the generic characters herein emphasized is in- 
dicated by post-pollination developments. (cf. illustration, 
fig. 5). That they are lateral and, in the early stages of 
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