although dated ‘‘Junio de 1938”’ the actual date of pub- 
lication of the Catalogue was possibly about June 5, 19389. 
With the intention of validating, if necessary, these 
proposed new species of Acufia, a study was undertaken 
of all the available data and a report concerning them is 
included here. An effort was made in my behalf by Dr. 
J. P. Carabia to borrow all of the types. In view of his 
failure to do so, I have had to rely upon photographs of 
most of the types, along with the original descriptions, 
in order to arrive at my conclusions. Hormidium Hhio- 
rami Acuha & Roig (in Mem. Soc. Cubana Hist. Nat. 
10 (1936) 51) is also considered in this paper. 
Some additional notes concerning some of the other 
Cuban orchids have been included. Also, any additional 
distribution data which supplement those given by Acuna 
are included at the end of the treatment of each species. 
All of the specimens cited, unless otherwise indicated, 
are to be found in the Ames Herbarium or in the Gray 
Herbarium, or both. 
Habenaria Brittonae 4mes in Torreya 12 (1912) 
11. 
This species, which was originally compared with H. 
repens Nutt., seems to be most closely related to #1. 
alata Hook. The pedicellate ovary is crested with a 
prominent, sharp wing and also has several additional 
broad ribs without wings, thus placing it in an alliance 
with H. alata. The flowers, except for the constantly 
3-lobed lip with short filiform lateral lobes, are similar to 
those of HZ. alata. The plant differs from H. alata not 
only in the smaller flowers and constantly 3-lobed lip 
but also in the slenderer and more densely flowered ra- 
ceme and conspicuously reduced leaves. The raceme of 
H. Brittonae averages less than 1.5 cm. in diameter, 
whereas that of H. alata averages about 8.5 cm. in di- 
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