edly from the form of lip characteristic of S. glossula and 
S. inaequalis. Until a revision of the genus Stelis is at- 
tempted, these two species may be regarded as constitut- 
ing a distinct subsection of Lindley’s Labiatae. 
Stelis glossula Reichenbach filius in Gard. Chron. 
(1870) 1873—Polakowsky in Jahresber. Ver. Erdk. Dres- 
den, Wissen. Theil 16 (1879) 89—Hemsley in Gard. 
Chron. n.s. 12 (1879) 108: 16 (1881) 186; in Godman & 
Salvin Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. 8 (1883) 208—Pittier in 
Anal. Mus. Nae. Costa Rica 1 (1887) 783—Nicholson III. 
Dict. Garden. 3 (1887) 494; ed. 2, 8 (n.d.) 494— Wright 
& Dewar, Johnson’s Gard. Dict. new ed. (1894) 9830— 
Veitch Hort. Veitchii (1906) 154—Pucci Encicl. Ortie. 
4 [1916] 1436—Hubbard in L. H. Bailey Stand. Cycl. 
Hort. 6 (1917) 8284; new ed. 3 (1925) 8234—Schlechter 
in Beihefte Bot. Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2 (1918) 445. 
‘*Bilabiata, dense caespitosa; caulibus secundariis 
brevissimis; foliis cuneato oblongo-ligulatis apice minute 
bilobis cum denticulo; racemo longe distiche florido: 
bracteis triangulis ovaria longa non aequantibus; sepalo 
dorsali oblongo obtuse acuto quinquenervi elongato; sep- 
is lateralibus oblongo ovatis apiculatis apicem versus 
connatis subtrinerviis multo minoribus; petalis obtuse 
rhombeis uninerviis; labello carnoso papuliformi supra- 
dorsum bilamellato columna subaequali. 
*“A caespitose little Stelis, with spatulato-ligulate 
leaves, and a very curious inflorescence. ‘The brownish 
flowers stand in two transverse rows, the upper sepal hav- 
ing a much longer extent than the whole of the other 
organs of the flower together. 
‘*This little species was imported by Messrs. Veitch 
from Costa Rica. Hl. G. Rehb. fil.’’ (Reichenbach filius 
in Gard. Chron. (1870) 1878). 
The following redescription was prepared from the 
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