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Plant 2J in. high, with creeping rhizome. Secondary stem 1- 5-4 cm. 

 1., slender, the lower half loosely sheathed. Leaf 1-5-3 '3 cm. 1., 5-8 mm» 

 br., sessile, margined. Peduncles 3-5 mm. 1. Bracts about 1 mm. 1., 

 sheathing, truncate, obtuse. Flowers greenish-yellow, striped violet inside 

 {fide Cogniaux), about J in. 1. Sepals about 4 mm. 1., 3-nerved; median 

 narrow, triangular, acute, concave, 1*2 mm. br. ; lateral triangular, falcate, 

 slightly narrower. Petals 2 mm. 1., -5 mm. br. Lip, lower portion some- 

 what broadly ovate above a short broad claw, indistinctly 3-lobed, middle 

 lobe narrow, oblong, blunt, about 2 mm. 1. ; lower portion about two- 

 thirds of whole length ; margin papillose. Capsule obovoid, narrowly 

 3-keeled, 8-9 mm. 1. 



Lindley included two plants in his description of P. Wilsonii — one from 

 Cuba (Wright, No. 668), and the other from Jamaica, collected by Wilson. 

 The two plants difier remarkably in the conformation of the lip, and 

 must be regarded as distinct species. We retain the name P. Wilsonii 

 for the Jamaican plant, as Lindley's description of the lip evidently 

 refers to it, and not to the Cuban plant, which we have described, in 

 Journ. Bot. xlvii. 129 (1909), under the name P. confusa. The lip only 

 of P. Wilsonii is represented in PI. 9, f. 8. A portion of the plant 

 P. confusa is shown in f. 5, a petal in f. 6, and the lip in f. 7. 



Cogniaux's description of Porto Eico and Guadeloupe specimens differs 

 somewhat from ours, e.g., the median sepal is oblong-subspathulate, obtuse, 

 the petals are narrowly ovate, 1*5-1 "75 mm. 1., '75 mm. br., the peduncles 

 are 6-14 mm. 1. 



13. P. monophylla comb. nov. ; stem shorter than the leaf ; 

 racemes, two or three together (only one flowering), with two 

 flowers, shorter than the leaf ; leaf elliptical-lanceolate ; ovary 

 warty ; sepals pale-green, lateral united near base and somewhat 

 gibbous ; petals lanceolate, acute. — P. emarginata Lindl. Fol. 

 Orch. Fleuroth. 25 (1859) ; Griseb. op. cit. 608 ; Cogn. op. cit. 408. 

 Epidendrum (?) monophyllum Hooli. Exot. Fl. t. 109 (1825). 



Without locality, Wiles. 



Plant about 2 in. high. Sterns about 2 cm. 1., clustered, erect, slender, 

 covered for the most part by sheathing bracts. Leaf 3-4 cm. 1., 1 '2 cm. br., 

 obtuse. Pedicels about one-third as long as sepals, rather swollen upwards. 

 Bract scarcely exceeding the pedicel, sheathing, with ovate acute mouth. 

 Sepals 7 or 8 mm. 1., 1-nerved, slightly keeled, lanceolate, acute. Petals 

 minute, about one-third as long as sepals, whitish with a red central line, 

 1-nerved. Lip small, about as long as the petals, pink or deep purple, 

 lanceolate, parallel with the petals and enclosed by them, nearly plane, 

 slightly serrated at the margin, near the base above having two indistinct 

 tubercles. Column shorter than the petals, straight, semicylindrical at the 

 base, above at the base of the anther expanding into a sort of hood 

 formed by the concave broadly winged and toothed margin, the base 

 deep purple. Ovary very short, purple. 



No specimen seen ; described from figure and description in Hooker's 

 Exotic Mora. 



14. P. Morrisii Fawc. d Bendle in Journ. Bot. xlvii. 3 (1909) ; 

 stem about as long as the narrowly lanceolate, somewhat falcate, 

 subacuminate sessile leaf; peduncles two together, 1 -flowered, 

 very short ; petals subulate ; lip entire. — Cogn. op. cit. 408. (PJ. 9, 

 f. 1-4.) Type in Herb. Mus. Brit, and Jam. Herb. 



