CaMBRIDGE, MaAssacHuseETTs, JUNE 30, 1938 
BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
ZEUXINE STRATEUMATICA IN FLORIDA 
BY 
OaKkES AMES 
THE OCCURRENCE of the Asiatic Zeuxine strateumat- 
ica in Florida was reported in Orchidologia Zeylanica 4 
(1937) 89. This report was based on a single colony found 
on January 17, 19387,in a nursery, the Ormond ‘Tropical 
Gardens, at Ormond in Volusia County. It was sug- 
gested that this orchid might have been introduced with 
nursery stock, but convincing evidence for such an in- 
troduction was lacking and efforts to substantiate it met 
with failure. Records of Zeuaxine strateumatica having 
been cultivated in American gardens have not been 
found. It is not an orchid of horticultural significance 
and to my knowledge has never been cultivated in our 
botanic gardens. 
Shortly after the discovery of Zeuaine strateumatica 
at Ormond, my attention was directed to a photograph 
representing several plants of this species collected by 
George Nelson on January 27, 1936, west of Fellsmere 
in Indian River County. These plants, unlike those found 
at Ormond, grew at a distance from cultivated ground. 
In January, 1988, Nelson again visited the Fellsmere 
area and reported that Zeuaine strateumatica was spar- 
ingly distributed over a stretch of two miles and was ap- 
parently spreading. The original colony was a small one 
although composed of numerous specimens. 
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