MALAXIS CONFUSA, 
A NEW COMBINATION 
BY 
CHARLES SCHWEINFURTH 
Malaxis confusa (Cogn. ) C. Schweinfurth comb. 
nov. 
Microstylis confusa Cogniaux in Urban Symb. An- 
till. 6 (1909) 370. 
The above combination has apparently not been 
made. 
In the Gray Herbarium is a sheet (No. 2816) bearing 
two plants. One of them, C. Wright 614 (Plantae Cu- 
benses Wrightianae 1856-7, in Cuba Orientali) is the type 
number of Microstylis confusa. This specimen is an old 
one and bears on the summit of the rachis the remnants 
of a mature flower on a swollen ovary. It differs from the 
type description in having a floral bract up to 7 mm. 
long,not 1.5—2 mm. long as cited for Microstylis confusa. 
The other (left-hand) plant is a good specimen bear- 
ing a raceme of flowers and buds. Its larger leaf is only 
8.5 em. long. A flower from this specimen shows further 
differences. Its dorsal and lateral sepals are both about 
2mm. wide. The lip is oblong-ovate, submembranaceous 
and scarcely exceeds 3 mm. in width. Furthermore, the 
following color-notes are given: “‘Sep. & pet. light green- 
ish Lip dull reddish-green turning to orange. ... Potosi 
Monte ‘Toro Oct 11°’. A second label reads: ‘‘Plantae 
Cubenses Wrightianae’’ and bears the legend, presum- 
ably in Grisebach’s writing, *‘=614 which had no. fl.”’ 
and also, in print, ‘‘Coll. C. Wright 1860--1864°’. 
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