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5 — 11 cm. longis; pediceliis 3 — 4 mm. longis; bracteis angu.ste och- 

 reatis, acutis, 2 — 3 mm. longis; sepalis tenuiter membranaceis, tri- 

 nervulosis, acutiuscule longeque acuminatis, dorsali linear! -lanceolato, 

 7 mm. longo, lY, nim. lato, lateralibus liberis, triangularibus, 5 mm. 

 longis, basi 2 mm. latis; petalis linearibus, iininervulosls, obtusiusculo 

 longeque acuminatis, 4 mm. longis, 1 mm. latis; labello diaphano, 

 obovato, trinervuloso, anguste unguiculato, apice rotundato, subtiliter 

 puberulo, 27.3 mm. longo, IV-, — IVinim. lato, disco ad medium oblique 

 bilamellato; columna 2'^!., mm. longa, basi in pedem P/o nim. longum 

 producta. 



Plenrothnllis in'chopJwra Lindl.! in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 III. ser. I (1858) p. 326, Orch. Wright. 21. 2, Fol. Orch., Pleuroth. p. 32; 

 Griseb. Cat. p. 258; Sauv. Fl. Cnb. p. 225. 



Flores obscure rubri vel purpuvei. — Fl. III — IV; fr. IV. 



Hab. in Cuba supra arbores in cacumine Loma del Gato et 

 prope Monteverde alt. 800 m.: "Wright n. 659, Eggers n. 5129. 



B. Braehystachyae Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. III. 4 (1896) p. 555. — Spec. 149. 



149. Pleurothallis obovata Lindl. caulibus gracilibus, angulatis, 

 triarticulatis, 4 — 10 cm. longis; folio satis coriaceo, oblongo-subspathu- 

 lato, apice obtuso et interdum obscure tridenticulato, basi in petiolum 

 brevem canaliculatum angustato, 4 — 9 cm. longo, 1 — 2 cm. lato; 

 pedunculis communibus fasciculatis, capillaribus, fractiflexis, laxe 

 3 — 4-floris, 1 — 3 cm. longis, basi squamulis acutis vestitis; pediceUis 

 2 mm. longis; bracteis hyalinis, cucullatis, acutis, 2Y2 — 3 mm. longis; 

 floribus patulis, segmentis hyalinis; sepalis lineari-lanceolatis, acu- 

 minatis, trinervulosis, 4 mm. longis, lateralibus liberis; petalis lineari- 

 bus, acuminatis, uninervulosis, 3 — 3^2 iöm- longis; labello sessili, 

 lineari, acuto, infra medium leviter constricto, 27., mm. longo, disco 

 laevi; columna clavata, iV^^m. longa, clinandrio margine irregulariter 

 denticulato. 



Pleurothallis obovata Lindl..' in Bot. Reg. XXV III (1842) Mise, 

 p. 75, Fol. Orch., Pleuroth. p. 22, Griseb. Cat. p. 258; Sauv. Fl. Cub. 

 p. 225. 



Specklinia obovata Lindl! in Bot. Reg. XXV (1839) Mise. p. 86. 



Pleurothallis albida Lindl..' in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. III. ser. I 

 (1858) p. 327, Orch. Wright. p. 2. 



Flores albidi vel albo-flavescentes. 



Hab. in Cuba orientali in rupibus unibrosis prope Monteverde, 

 in arboie mortua gregarie ad Bayamesa alt. 500 m.: Wright n. 655, 

 1704, Eggers n. 4675; Sto. Domingo in arboribus ad Loma Isabel 

 de la Torre alt. 350 m.: Eggers n. 2799. 



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