ORCHIDACEtE 



H. Cruegeri "Habenaria setacea Griseb. iFlor. {1864), p. 644 {non Lindl /). 



"Tuberidia obtusa, paulo obliqua, 10-12 mm. longa. Caulis 

 strictus vel leviter flexuosus, teretiusculus, 12-35 cm. altus, 

 ^-\ mm. crassus. Folia tenuiter trinervia, limbo 2-4 cm. longo 

 basi 1-2 mm. lato, vagina 1-3 mm. longa. Racemus rectus, 

 3-8 cm. longus. Bracte^e adpressse, basi amplexicaules, 8-13 mm. 

 longae. Flores erecto-patuli, virescentes. Ovarium anguste lineari- 

 fusiforme, leviter arcuatum, 10-11 mm. longum. Sepala sub- 

 membranacea, dorsale satis concavum, 3 mm. longum, 2 mm. 

 latum, lateralia subplana, leviter obliqua, 3|^-4 mm. longa, 

 1 J mm. lata. Petalorum partitiones subrectae, 2^ mm. longae. 

 Labellum deflexum, partitionibus leviter divergentibus, 3j- 

 4 mm. longis; calcar rectum, 1 cm. longum, inferne ^ mm. su- 

 perne f mm. crassum. Capsula erecta, leviter arcuata, fusiformis, 

 crasse 6-costata, 14-16 mm. longa. 



"Hab. in Trinidad ad Aripo et Piarco, fl. et fr. V: Crueger 

 n. 49 et 67." Cogn. he. cit. 



Among the orchids collected by Crueger in Trinidad, and de- 

 scribed by Grisebach in the Flora of the British West Indian 

 Islands, there were two closely allied species of Habenaria, one 

 of which Grisebach referred to H. setacea. Subsequent studies 

 have proved that H. setacea does not come within our range. 

 Professor Cogniaux has recently decided that Grisebach's H. 

 setacea is an undescribed species; and in Urban's Symbolce An- 

 tillance it appears under the name H. Cruegeri. 



H.repens 40. H. repens Nutt., Gen. 2: 190 (1818); Elliott, Sketch 2: 



489 (1824); Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3: 692 (1826); Lindl, Gen. & 



Sp. Orch. 310 (1835); Eaton ^ Wr., N. A. Bot. ed. 8, 260 



{l^^oy,Steud., Nomencl. ed. 2, 1 : 717 {\^^l);Chapm.,¥\. S.U.S. 



ed. 1, 461 (1860), ed. 2, 461 (1884), ed. 3, 487 (1897); Darby, 



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