PLEUROTHALLIS 61 



Without locality, Morris, 28 ! 



Plant 3 or 4 in. high. Stems 3-5 cm. 1., filiform, clustered, terete, 

 •with two dark-brown, adpressed sheaths at the base, the upper sheath 

 7-9 mm. 1. Leaf 4-5 cm. 1., 5-8 mm. br. Sepals 3*5 mm. 1., broadly 

 elliptical ; median 2 mm. br., 3-nerved ; lateral somewhat broader, connate, 

 2-nerved, at apex 2-toothed. Petals 2*5 mm. 1. Lip 2-4 mm. 1., 1*6 mm. br., 

 shortly clawed, articulated to foot of column, obtuse, concave, with a 

 thickened margin. Column 1' 5 mm. 1., short; clinandrium with a long 

 narrow process in front. 



The species is named after Sir Daniel Morris, formerly Director of 

 Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica. 



15. P. potundifolia Bolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 191 ; stems 

 almost none, clustered ; peduncle much longer than the roundish 

 leaf, solitary, few-flowered ; sepals straw-coloured, lateral connate 

 nearly to apex. — Gogn. op. cit. 409. (PI. 8, f. 11-16.) Type in 

 Herb. Kew. 



Without locality, Morris ! 



Plant very small, 1^2 in. high, acaulescent. Leaves roundish-obovate, 

 marginate, fleshy, 6-8 mm. 1., 5-7 mm. br. ; petiole short, 2-4 mm. 1. 

 Scape slender, with about six flowers, 4-5 cm. 1. Bracts tubular at the base, 

 triangular-ovate, acute, small, 1 mm. 1. Pedicels 2 mm. 1. Flowers straw- 

 coloured, about J in. 1. Sepals oval; median acute, concave, 3-nerved, 

 4 mm. 1., 1*8 mm. br., with light red-purple nerves; lateral 2-nerved, 

 4-5 mm. 1., 2*5 mm. br. Petals spathulate-oblong, subobtuse, 1'4 mm. 1., 

 straw-coloured with mid-nerve purple-red. Lip subrecurved, undivided, 

 oblong, obtuse, 3-nerved, 1*7 mm.l., -7 mm. br., basal three-fourths purple- 

 red, upper fourth straw-coloured. Coluvm winged, with acute apex, 

 1-25 mm. 1. 



16. P. eornleulata Lindl. in Bot. Beg. xxviii. Misc. 83 (1842) 

 (excl. syn.) ; stems very short, clustered ; peduncle longer than 

 the oval-otjlong leaf, solitary, with only one flower ; lateral 

 sepals connate almost to apex. — Lindl. Fol. OrcTi. Pleuroth. 42 ; 

 Griseh. op. cit. 609; Cogn. op. cit. 412. Epidendrum corniculatum 

 Sw. Prodr. 123 (1788). Dendrobium corniculatum Sw. in Nov. 

 Act. Upsal. vi. 83 (1799) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1537. Type in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



On trunks of trees ; in fl. Sept.-April ; Swartz ! near Rodney Hall, 

 Purdie 1 Beaufort, Wullschlaegel, 1031 (in part) I Prior 1 lowlands to 1000 

 ft.; St. Mary; J.P. 2403; Symel Hopeton, Westmoreland, 1400 ft., 

 Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 9781.— Cuba. 



Plant 1^-2 in. high. Sterns closely clustered, barely exceeding -5 cm. 1., 

 enveloped in loose overlapping brown scarious blunt sheaths. Leaf 

 1-2 cm. 1., 5-7 mm. br., margined, with a short stalk (3-8 mm. 1.). 

 Peduncle 2 -5-3 '5 cm. 1., solitary, longer than the leaf, filiform, with one 

 flower, with a scarious sheathing bract above the middle. Flower yellowish, 

 not open (cleistogamous?), about ^ in., slightly curved. Sepals 5 mm. 1., 

 lanceolate-acuminate; median 3-nerved, median nerve keeled; lateral 

 connate almost to the apex, 2-keeled, gibbous at the base. Petals 

 2*75 mm. 1., erect, suboblanceolate, 3-nerved, a little more than half as 

 long as the sepals. Lip yellow, 2-5 mm. 1., subrhomboid, obtusely 

 acuminate above, 3-nerved. Column, including the anther, 2 mm. 1., 

 erect, a little shorter than the petals ; clinandrium, with a lateral tooth 

 and prolonged anteriorly on both sides into a slightly curved tooth. 

 Capsule 6 mm. I., ohlong. 



