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longer than leaf, one flower developed at a time, but pedicels of 

 former flqwers present (to 16) ; lateral sepals ^-connate. — 

 Griseb. op. cit. 608 ; Cogn. op. cit. 423. 



On trees in moist woods ; in fl. Oct.-April ; Purdie 1 near Mabess River, 

 3500-4000 ft. ; near Troy, 2500 ft. ; near Christiana, 3000 ft. ; near John 

 Crow Peak ; Harris I Ellen Aire, Moy Hall, Sullivan I slope of John Crow 

 Peak, 100 ft. above Mabess River, Fawcettl Fl. Jam. 7617, 7826, 8869, 

 9007, 10,399, 10,476, 10,478. 



Plant (without the raceme) ^| in. high. Stems about 3 mm. 1., very 

 short, closely clustered, filiform, enveloped by the membranous sheath. 

 Leaf 1-2 cm. 1., including the stalk, oblanceolate, margined, narrowed at 

 the base into a slender stalk. Racemes 2*5-4 cm. 1., generally much 

 longer than the leaf, but occasionally shorter, clustered, flowering solitary, 

 filiform, flexuose, with several (to 16) flowers, laxly secund or in two ranks. 

 Bracts about 1 mm. 1., short, half the length of the pedicels, sheathing, 

 obtuse, shortly apiculate. Pedicels about 2 mm. 1. Flowers about ^ in., 

 greenish-yellow streaked with crimson or purple. Sepals 3*75 mm. 1., 

 suberect, acuminate above and somewhat thick, obtuse ; lateral narrowly 

 ovate, about ^-connate; median oblong or lanceolate-oblong, keeled. 

 Petals about 2 mm. 1., half as long as the sepals, cuneate, fimbriate- 

 serrulate above, acute. Lip about 3 mm. 1., a little shorter than the 

 sepals, 3-lobed; middle lobe oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, somewhat 

 thick; much exceeding the short broad incurved serrulate lateral lobes. 

 Column a little shorter than the petals, upper margin dilated, serrulate ; 

 clinandrium 2 or 3-dentate. Capsule 6 mm. 1., obovate-elliptical, glabrous. 



22. P. Helense Fawc. & Bendle in Journ. Bot. xlvii. 4 (1909); 

 stems very short, clustered ; peduncle filiform, much longer than 

 the leaf, few-flowered ; sepals caudate, lateral free ; lip nearly 

 half as long as sepals. — Gogn. op. cit. 424. (PI. 9, f. 9-14.) Type 

 in Herb. N. York Bot. Gard. and in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On trunks of trees ; in fl. July ; in fr. Aug. ; Mt. Moses, 3500 ft., J.P. 

 2279, Syme ! Mabess River, 3500 ft., Harris ! 



Plant 1^-2 in. high. Stems very short, clustered ; sheaths tubular below, 

 acute. Leaf, including stalk, 10-15 mm. 1., 2-3 mm. br., oblanceolate- 

 elliptical or oblanceolate-linear, narrowed at the base into the stalk. 

 Racemes l'5-5 cm. 1., branched. Bracts sheathing, acute or apiculate. 

 Flowers J in. 1., pale green. Sepals about 3-25 mm. 1., pale greenish, 

 1-nerved, spreading, caudate, glabrous ; median ovate, 1 mm. br. ; lateral 

 lanceolate, free, narrower than median. Petals two-thirds as long as sepals, 

 2*6 mm. 1., '75 mm. br., pale greenish, ovate, fimbriate on the upper 

 margin, caudate at the apex. Lip half as long as the sepals when spread 

 out, 1-5 mm. 1., "75 mm. br., pale greenish marked with crimson, 3-lobed, 

 conduplicate, lateral lobes broadly rounded, fimbriate on the upper margin, 

 middle lobe ovate, obtuse. Column lined with crimson, including the 

 conical anther, as long as the lip, slender, thicker above ; clinandrium 

 3-toothed. Capsule obovoid-ellipsoidal, 3-4 mm. 1., 2 mm. br. 



The figures in the plate are from a detailed drawing by Miss H. A. Wood, 

 after whom the plant is named. 



23. P. laneeola Spreng. Syst. Hi. 731 (1826) ; stems very 

 short, clustered ; peduncle about as long as the leaf, clustered, 

 only one flowering at a time, 2— 4 -flowered ; lateral sepals connate 

 at base. — Lindl. Fol. Orch. Pleuroth. 40 ; Griseb. op. cit. 609 ; 

 Cogn. op. cit. 425. Epidendrum laneeola Sw. Prodr. 123 (1788)^ 



