guinea are large and ovoid and the leaf is rather thin and 
smooth along the margin, whereas the pseudobulbs of 
the species of Laeliopsis are usually small and fusiform 
and the leaves are rigidly fleshy and have sharply serrate 
margins. The flowers of Laelopsis also lack the sepaline 
tube which is characteristic of Broughtonia. 
The species of Laeliopsis are very similar, vegetatively, 
to those of Cattleyopsis, and Laeliopsis domingensis is 
superficially so similar in every way to Cattleyopsis Lin- 
denu that much confusion has resulted. The similarity 
of these two species tempts one to unite Catt/eyopsis and 
Laeliopsis. However, the difference in the number of 
pollinia would seem to justify keeping them separated. 
Lip apiculate, with the margin merely wavy. 
1. L. cubensis 
Lip emarginate, with the margin undulate-fimbriate. 
2. L. domingensis 
1. Laeliopsis cubensis (Lindl.) ‘‘ Lindl.”’ ex Cog- 
niaux in Urban Symb. Antill. 6 (1910) 5438. 
Epidendrum cubense Lindley in Bot. Reg. 29 (1843) 
Mise. p. 17. 
Broughtonia cubensis Cogniaux in Urban Symb. An- 
till. 6 (1910) 542. 
The exact status of this concept is not entirely clear 
and it is not possible to retain it here with complete cer- 
tainty. However, since Lindley referred this concept to 
Laelhopsis probably it should be retained in that genus. 
An examination of a photograph of the type in the Ames 
Herbarium shows that the veins of the lip are ramentace- 
ous as originally described and the lip is shown as broadly 
elliptic and apiculate. Lindley described the flowers as 
being ‘‘white, with a lip folded up, white at the end, yel- 
low in the middle, and purple, as is the column, near the 
base. ’’ 
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