sider to be an excellent illustration of typical P. striata. 
He described and illustrated the lip of the flowers of P. 
australis as being ligulate-spatulate, deeply emarginate 
at the apex, and slightly constricted about the middle. 
The habit of the plant as shown in the illustration is 
more or less typical of all the species of Ponera, except 
P. juncifola, and shows along the naked stem lateral 
clusters of sessile flowers subtended by large bracts. 
Rodrigues wrote as follows concerning P. geraensis: 
‘Les feuilles et les fleurs sont plus petites que le P. 
australis, et sont blanches, ayant les divisions lignées et 
veinées de violet.’’ As is evident from his illustration the 
flowers of P. geraensis resemble rather closely those of 
P. striata. The lip, as he stated, is oblong, narrowed at 
the base and deeply emarginate at the apex. He also 
stated that the lip was about 3 mm. wide at the base and 
about 6 mm. wide at the apex, measurements which 
would seem to indicate a cuneate shape. Except for the 
statement that the flowers were fleshy and pedicellate, 
the description he gives of the plant proves that it is 
vegetatively similar to P. striata. 
Rodrigues’ measurements are palpably erroneous in 
part. For example, he gives the leaf measurements as 
12-13 mm. long and 8 mm. wide and the lip measure- 
ments as 11 mm. long and 6 mm. wide at the apex and 
3 mm. wide at the base. According to these measure- 
ments, the lip of the flowers and the leaves of his plant 
are about equal in length. His illustration, however, dis- 
proves this. The leaf illustrated is as long as those of 
typical P. striata. 
Kriinzlin described Sobralia polyphylla from very poor 
and inadequate material, with the result that he placed 
the plant in an entirely different subtribe, the Sobralieae, 
instead of in the Ponereae where it properly belongs. 
He wrote: ‘‘Labellum e basi cuneata dilatatum, oblon- 
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