IGONES PLANTARUM, 63 
Puate 1382. 
PSEUDOCENTRUM MINUS, Benth. 
Orcuipes, Tribe Neorrine. 
P. minus, Benth. sp. n., porianie laxe pilosulo, mento lineari 
clauso ovario squilongo v. vix lon ngior 
Has. Jamaica, Portland Gap, at an elevation of 5,400 feet, D. 
Morris. 
Fibre radicales in rhizomate brevi fasciculate, carnosule. Caulis 
v. paullo a altior. Folia 2-3-infe- 
obtusa, 3—-5-pollicaria, 1-2 superiora m 
vaginantia. Spica densa, 3-6-pollicaris, floribus quaquaversis ad 
axillas bractearum lanceolatarum subsessilibus erecto-patentibus, pilis 
crispulis laxe vestitis. Ovariwm cylindraceum, basi attenuatum, vix 
alum posticum (infe erum) patens, lato-lanceolatum, 
lia in mentum seu tubum cylindracenm 
patens emarginatum brevissime expansa. 
dimidio breviora angustioraque, patentia. 
, ad os me lobos 2 breves corse divisum, intra mentum 
i nd enti lobo inflexo clausam hg 
1m membranaceo-2-lobum 
olla § in loculis gemina, pulvereo-granu minata. igma 
concavum ad apicem truncatum columnx “pda rostellum breviter 
lineare, glandula terminatum 
The habit and essential character are entirely those of the original 
from New Sopa which, however, has 
eeiny BenTHA 
Fig. 1. Flower. 
Pollen masses. 
2. Labellum. 3. Column and anther-case. 4, Anthers. 5. 
