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variable in size, 4-6 mm, 1., 2-4 mm. br., ovate, acuminate; lateral 

 ^-connate, apices diverging. Petals 2 • 5-3 • 5 mm. br., apex obscure, extended 

 nearly equally on both sides; lobes -75-1 -5 mm. br., linear to linear- 

 oblong, obtuse; anterior half orange, posterior half crimson, the crimson 

 colour sometimes extending nearly to the edge. Lip crimson, with more 

 or less orange shading, upper surfaces lanceolate, anterior acute, posterior 

 obtuse. Column crimson; anther light-purplish. Capsules 5 mm. 1., 

 4 mm. br., obovoid, with 6 ridges. 



The colour of the sepals varies with age ; when the flower opens, it is a 

 transparent light yellow slightly shaded with crimson down the centre ; 

 as the flower grows older the crimson shading extends almost to the edges 

 showing very little of the yellow. When the flower opens, the tips of both 

 lobes of the petals overlap, then they straighten, but in the old flower 

 converge again ; when the lobe-tips converge, the apex of the petal appears 

 distinctly acute, but when the petals are straight, the apex is not evident. 



Var. minor Faicc. & Bendle loc. cit. 



In fl. Sept., Moy Hall, Sullivan ! 

 > Plant smaller. Stems to 3 cm, 1, Leaves broadly elliptical, very 

 shortly acuminate, rarely exceeding 1-5 cm. 1., 1 cm. br. liacemes to 

 2 cm. 1., slightly longer than the leaf. Sepal, median 3 mm. 1., barely 

 2 mm. br. ; lateral 3*2 mm. 1. Petals less than -5 mm. 1., 2 5 mm. br. 

 Upper surfaces of lip-lobes lanceolate, acute, a little over 2 mm. 1. 



8. L. ovalis comh. nov. ; stem many times (3-5) longer than 

 leaf; leaf 4-7 em. 1. ; sepals tawny yellow, sometimes flushed 

 with crimson, deltoid, acute, lateral J-connate ; petals, posterior 

 lobe much larger, elliptical, obtuse, anterior lanceolate, acute; 

 breadth of petals shorter than length of sepals, longer than upper 

 surfaces of lip ; lip, upper surfaces scarcely longer than the 

 anterior lobes of the petals, lanceolate-subulate, apex pointing 

 abruptly upwards. — L. concinna Sw. in Nov. Act. Upsal. vi. 85 

 (1799); Fl Ind. Occ. 1557 & Adnot. But. t. 2, /. 4 ; Griseb. op. 

 cit. 611 ; Fawc. & Bendle op. cit. 10, /. II. f. 22-25. Epidendrum 

 ovRle Sw. Prodr. 125 (1788). 



In fl. Oct.-Feb. ; summits of the mountains, Swartz ! Cinchona, J.P. 

 16 (in part), Morris \ Mt. Moses, J.P. 2268, Sijmel Green Hill Wood, 

 3500 ft.; Mabess River, 3500-4000 ft.; John Crow Peak; north side 

 below John Crow Peak, 5000 ft. ; below Vinegar Hill, 3900 ft. ; Morse's 

 Gap, 4800 ft., and ridge above the Gap, 5500 ft. ; Holly Mount, Mt. Diabolo, 

 2600 ft., 3000 ft. ; Harris 1 John Crow Peak, Fawcett 1 Greenhill, 3000 ft. 

 Moore ! Fl. Jam. 7755, 7767, 7782, 8909, 9782, 9892. 10,091.— Cuba. 



Plant sometimes as much as 10 in. high. Bhizomc short, woody. 

 Secondary stems, sometimes as much as 20 cm. 1., barely 1 mm. br., slender, 

 wiry, erect or suberect ; sheaths thin, minutely ciliolate on the acute 

 mouth and ridges ; by the perishing of the sheaths, the older stems often 

 become bare, exposing the cylindrical internodes, which often have a 

 reddish tinge. Leaves, generally 4-7 cm. 1., 1-5-2-8 cm. br., elliptical, 

 acuminate, shortly stalked. Racemes to 5 cm. 1., shorter than the leaves ; 

 besides the flowering peduncle, a number (sometimes as many as 15) of 

 dried peduncles of former flowering seasons often form a dense cluster in 

 the leaf-axil. Bracts glabrous, slightly acuminate. Flowers 8-16, in two 

 close ranks in the upper 6-12 mm. Sepals deltoid, acute, 2-5-4 mm. 1. ; 

 median 2-5-3-75 mm. br. ; lateral 3-4*5 mm. br. Petals 2-5-3 mm br., 



