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below. Petals 4 mm. long, spatulate, somewhat apiculate, greenish 

 at base and along the margins, otherwise whitish. Lip 5-6 mm. 

 long, white, at about the middle adherent to the column, 3-lobed; 

 lateral lobes rounded, forming with the disc a cuneate-oblong 

 lamina ; apical lobe trapezoidiform, apiculate ; at base two thick- 

 ened callosities, one on each side. Column 4 mm. long. Stigma 

 crescent-form. Rostellum triangular-lanceolate. Anther ovate- 

 apiculate. 



Of this rare plant there are few representatives in American 

 herbaria. The Gray Herbarium contains two specimens collected 

 by Charles Wright in Cuba, while the original Florida specimens 

 collected by Storer, on which Chapman based Sjnranthes Storeri 

 and Dr. Small the new genus Beadlea, are in the Chapman Her- 

 barium at Biltmore, N. C. Apparently the second collection of 

 the species in Florida was made in December, 1903, by Mr. A. A. 

 Eaton, who found about thirty plants near Miami. One of these 

 specimens was sent to Kew and another to the New York Botani- 

 cal Garden. 



John Lindley described the genus Sauroglossum in 1833, as- 

 cribing to it a Brazilian species, S. elatum, the type of the genus. 

 In 1818 Richard published Spiranthes elata (Mem. Mus. Par. 

 4 : 59). As Spiranthes elata, Rich., seems properly to belong to 

 Sauroglossum, and as the specific designation elata is already 

 preempted by the type species, I propose for Richard's plant 

 the name Sauroglossum Richardi. Although Sauroglossum as re- 

 presented by S. cranichoides, S. elatum, Lindl., and S. Richardi 

 is very near Spiranthes, it is clearly distinguished from that 

 genus by the loose untwisted inflorescence, by the more slender 

 column, and by the petiolate, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, radical 

 persistent leaves. I have removed S. cranichoides from Pelexia, 

 to which genus Grisebach referred it, because of great discrep- 

 ancies between its characters and those of any Pelexia known 

 to me. 



