In December, 1937, Donovan S. Correll brought to 
my laboratory for identification an orchid which had been 
collected by Charles C. Deam, on January 30, of that 
year, twelve miles southeast of Kissimmee in Osceola 
County. This proved to be conspecific with the Ormond 
plants and with those found by Nelson near Fellsmere. 
Later (February, 1988) Correll sent in additional rec- 
ords for the occurrence of the species, indicating its pres- 
ence in Highlands County, Collier County, Hendry 
County and Glades County. These were localities visited 
by Mr. Deam. Then Correll reported that specimens had 
been found on January 22, 1938, by Miss Mary Singel- 
tary near Kissimmee growing on the edge of a swamp 
on Johnson Island. 
‘These records indicate very clearly that Zewaine stra- 
tewmatica is already widespread in peninsular Florida and 
appears to be adapted to Floridian soil and climate. At 
the season of anthesis, in 1988, there were frosts in Or- 
mond, but the flowers of the orchid did not show frost- 
injury although mulberry trees were completely defoli- 
ated. 
In January, 1988, I again visited the Ormond Tropical 
Gardens and found an abundance of specimens. Along 
the edges of a drainage ditch the plants were numerous, 
in one case fifteen flowering stalks being found in an area 
of less than one square foot of ground. Some of these 
specimens were so luxuriant that the lower part of the 
stems had become procumbent, a condition I have never 
observed in plants collected in the eastern tropics. ‘The 
smallest specimens were hardly 4 cm. tall, one of these 
bearing a single flower, perhaps being a very young plant 
blooming for the first time. 
When I first saw Zeurine strateumatica in lawns of 
the Ormond Tropical Gardens, I was inclined to believe 
that it had been introduced from China with seeds of 
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