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ovato-oblongo A'el ovato-subrotundato, apice rotundato et minuto tii- 

 dentato, 15 — 30 mm. longo; bractca tenuiter scariosa, acuta, carinata, 

 dorso lacera; floribus solitariis, subsessilibus; sepalis carnosulis, ob- 

 longo-subspathulatis, trinerviis, extus longe pilosis, 4 mm. longis, 

 P/o mm. latis, dorsali apice rotundato et minute apiculato, lateralibus 

 acutis et longiore apiculatis, usque ad medium connatis; petalis ungui- 

 culato-spathulatis, apice rotundatis, superne subtiliter serrulatis, uni- 

 nervulosis, 2 mm. lougis; labello tenuiter membranaceo, longiuscule 

 angusteque unguiculato, late oblongo-paudurato, apice late rotundato, 

 trinervuloso, superne longe hirtello, 27^ in»''- longo, Vj^ mm. lato, 

 disco inferne alte bilamellato; columna 2 mm. longa, apice cucullata 

 crispa. 



PlcurothalUs testaefolia Lhidl. ! in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hisf. III. 

 .ser. I (1858) jJ- 326, Orch. Wright. p. 4, Fol. Orch., Pleiiroth. p.4S; 

 Griseb. Flor. p. 609, Caf. p. 259; Saiiv. Fl. Cub. p. 226. 



Epidendrum iestaefolium Sw. Prodr. (1788) p. 122. 



Cymbidium testaefolium Sw.! Flor. III (1806) p. 1461. 



Folia intense viridia et maciilis atrofuscis notata; flores atropurpurei. 



Fl. II, IX, xn. 



Hab. in Cuba supra arbores prope Monteverde, ad Monte de la 

 Ciarita alt. 800 m.: Wright ii. 648, 1496, Eggers u. 5194; Jamaica 

 in rupibus muscosis truucisquo arborum, ad Mabess Kiver alt. 1800 m., 

 ad Laucaster alt. 700 m.: Swartz, Purdie, "Wilson, Wullschlaegel n. 1082, 

 March, W. Harris in Herb. Bot. Dep. u. 7548, 7551, 7787; Martinique 

 in arboribus ad Morne Kouge, Fonds St. Denis: Hahn n. 582, Duss 

 n. 381; St. Lucia: Duss n. 220. — Venezuela: Pendler n. 1459. 



B. Caespitosae Cogn. in Hart. Fl. Bras. III. 4 (1896) p. 509. — Spec. 143. 

 143. Pleiirothallis tribuloides (Sw.) Lindl. dense caespitosa; 

 caulibus gracilibus, vagiuis 2 — 3 scariosis laxis acutisque vestitis, 

 3 — 8 mm. longis; folio coriaceo, oblonge -spathulato, apice abrupte 

 acute vel obtuso et minute emarginato, basi cuneato et in petiolum 

 longe angustato, 2 — 4V2 cm. longo, 4 — 8 mm. lato; pedunculis soli- 

 tariis vel paucis fasciculatis, unifloris, 2 — 5 mm. longis, vaginis 

 scariosis inclusis; ovario setulis papillosis longiusculis densissime hir- 

 suto; sepalis carnosulis, lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, trinervulosis, extus 

 tenuiter papillosis, dorsali conduplicato, carinato, 6 mm. longo, 2 mm. 

 lato, lateralibus in valvam 5 mm. longam et 3 mm. latam fere usque ad. 

 apicem connatis; petalis carnosulis, oblongis, acutis, obscure trinervu- 

 losis, 21/2 mm. longis, lYs mm. latis; labello lineari- oblonge, obtuso, 

 concavo, apice pilosulo, 2 mm. longo; columna 2 mm. longa; Capsula 

 globosa, dense echinata. 



