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blunt apex, the lobes of equal leDgth, posterior oblanceolate, 

 converging, anterior linear; lip consisting of a large anterior 

 subquadrate portion attached by a very short insertion on the 

 column-base, with a shallowly notched broadly rounded apex, 

 and produced behind into a pair of bluntly tapering narrow lobes 

 about equal in length to the anterior portion. 



In fl. Nov.-April ; near John Crow Peak ; near Mabess River, 3500 ft., 

 4000 ft. ; Holly Mount, Mt. Diabolo, 2700 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7746, 7824, 

 7827, 9016, 9893. 



Plant about 1^ in. higb. Stems to 2*5 cm. 1., longer tban the leaves; 

 mouth of the sheaths spreading, minutely ciliolate; ridges muriculate. 

 Leaves 1-1-6 cm. 1., 4-9 mm. br., oval to elliptical. Bacemes generally 

 several clustered, sometimes solitary, not half as long as the leaves. 

 Bracts glabrous. Flowers few, distant. Sepals 3 mm. 1., ovate-acuminate, 

 ventricose, margin and nerves ciliolate, lateral a little smaller. Petals 

 1-5 mm. br. Column short, dilated above; anther ovoid, rectangular, 

 emarginate. Capsule obovoid. 



19. L. eoneolOP Fawc. & Bendle op. cit. 5, t. 1. f. 5-7 ; sepals 

 pale yellow, lateral ^-connate ; petals obversely deltoid, at the 

 apex unequally concave; lip anteriorly shallowly retuse with a 

 short apiculus, lobes thick, extended backwards and embracing 

 the column. 



In fl. Aug.-Feb. ; Moy Hall, Sullivan ! Morse's Gap and Blue Mountains 

 ridge, Fawcett ! ridge above Morse's Gap, 5400 ft. ; Newhaven Gap, 5600 ft. ; 

 Rose Hill, 4000 ft. ; Newhaven, 4000 ft. ; ridge from Newhaven Gap to 

 Vinegar Hill, 4000 ft. ; John Crow Peak ; above Mabess River ; Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 7831, 10,083, 10,465, 10,468. 



Plant ^-IJ in. high. Stems generally 2-3 cm. 1., much longer than the 

 leaf; sheaths conspicuously ridged, the mouth (sharply acute) and the 

 ridges minutely ciliolate. Leaf, blade generally 1 to 1 • 5 cm. 1., 5-i3 mm. br., 

 oval to roundish oval. Bacemes 6-8 mm. 1., generally shorter than the leaf, 

 1-3-clustered, lax, with a few flowers, one or two open at a time. Bracts 

 glabrate. Flowers about | in. 1., pale yellow. Sepals 3 mm. 1., ovate, 

 glabrous, lateral each barely 1*5 mm. br. at union, median 2*5 mm. br. 

 Petals a little over 1 mm. 1. and slightly broader, pale yellow. Lip 

 1"5 mm. br., lobes 1 mm. 1. Column short, dilated above. Capsule 

 4 mm. 1., 3 mm. br., obliquely obovoid, 6-keeled. 



The plant from Rose Hill differs from the other specimens in having 

 the racemes longer than the leaf ; they reach nearly 2 cm. The flowers, 

 however, resemble those of specimens from other localities. 



24. BRACHIONIDIUM Lindl. 



Epiphytic herbs, forming a long prostrate rhizome, which 

 often branches, and is more or less covered with scarious sheaths. 

 Secondary stems with a solitary leaf, very short below the leaf, 

 covered by one or two scarious sheaths. Leaf somewhat leathery, 

 rather small, contracted at the base into a short petiole. Peduncle 

 solitary, enclosed with the petiole in a scarious sheath with one 

 flower and generally also an aborted bract. Sepals produced at 



