ORCHIDACE^ 



but as it was collected in 1857, it was identified after the Linden 

 plant was described. Beneath the type specimen Lindley made 

 a sketch of the flower which leaves no room for doubt as to the 

 generic position of his species. It exhibits the characteristic la- 

 bellum of Ponthieva and agrees with the very brief description 

 pubHshed in Orchidaceae Lindenianae. The generic position of 

 this species was noted by Bentham in his paper published in the 

 Journal of the Linnean Society 18 (1881) 342. Under Cranichis 

 he wrote " Cranichis, Swartz, has nearly twenty species, to the 

 exclusion of C. parvilahris Lindl., which according to our speci- 

 mens, is a species of Ponthieva.'" Grisebach apparently took up 

 this suggestion made by Bentham, but for quite another plant, 

 ignorant of the fact that Reichenbach f. had made the combina- 

 tion Ponthieva parvilabris to cover the species described under 

 Cranichis by Lindley. The nomenclatorial history of the species, 

 as I understand it, is given above. 



ROBIQUETIA Gaudich. 



Robiquetia Merrillii Ames comb. nov. Malleola Merrillii 

 ^we^Orch. 5(1915)236. 



Robiquetia Ramosii Ames sp. nov. Herba epiphytica, plus 

 minusve 4 dm. alta, robusta, floribus in paniculam laxam dispo- 

 sitis. Caules validi, complanati, vaginis foliorum tecti. Vaginae 

 foliorum plus minusve 5 cm. longae, in sicco nervosae, persisten- 

 tes, rigidae. Folia ligulata, disticha, plus minusve 3 cm. inter se 

 distantia, oblique ascendentia, plus minusve 2 dm. longa, usque 

 ad 3.8 cm. lata, apice inaequaliter bilobata, lobis obtusis. Pedun- 

 culus cum racemo paniculato usque ad 2.8 dm. longus, prope 

 basim paucibracteatus, bracteis vaginantibus. Bracteae inflores- 

 centiae squamiformes, 2 mm. longae, acutae, rigidae. Rami pa- 

 niculae plus minusve 1 dm. longi, laxiflori. Pedicellus cum ova- 



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