Orchidaceae. 461 



Petala sepalo postico siniilia nisi paiild niinora et angustiora. La- 

 beil um cum pede columnao articulatum vel continuum, basi coii- 

 tractiim incumbens, dein erectum, apice patens, iiidivisum vel obsciire 

 lobatum. Columiia longiuscula, apice biaiiriculata, basi in pedem 

 brevem saepe membranaceo-dilatatum producta; clinandrium integrum 

 vel antice bidentatum. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, 

 bilocularis; poUinia 4, cerea, in quoi^ue loculo 2, ovoidea vel globosa, 

 haud compressa, inappendiculata, libera vel vix visco parco connexa. 

 — Herbae epiphyticae, ramosae, Americae tropicae incolae. Rami 

 noveili quotannis ab apice rami annotini solitarii vel geraini, basi 

 vaginis paleaceis stipati, apice bifoliati, demum carnoso-incrassati, 

 pseudobulbos lineares vel anguste fusiformes formantes. Folia angusta, 

 coriacea vel submembranacea. Flores parvi, inter folia ad basin 

 innovationum geraini vel fasciculati, pedicellis basi bracteatis. 



215. Scaphyglottis prolifcra (R. Br.) Cogn. caulibus numerosis, 

 dense fasciculatis, dichotome ramosissimis, 1 — 2 dm. longis; foliis sub- 

 oppositis, coriaceis, lineari-ligulatis, apice obtusissimis et suboblique 

 emarginatis, 2 — 4 cm. longis, 2 — 5 mm. latis; floribus geminatis vel 

 fasciculatis, subsessilibus; sepalis anguste oblongo-subspathulatis, acutis, 

 trinervulosis, 5 mm. longis, dorsali IY2 i^iiii- lato, lateralibus vix 

 latioribus; petalis anguste linear! -subspathulatis, obtusissimis, 5 mm. 

 longis, Yi iiii^i- latis; labello indiviso, oblongo-spathulato, apice rotun- 

 dato et leviter retuso, margine integerrimo, 5 mm. longo, superne 

 2Y2 mm. lato; columna inappendiculata, 4 mm. longa; Capsula angaste 

 ovoidea, 4 mm. longa. 



Scaphyg/ottis prolifera Cogn. in Matt. FL Bras. III. 5 (1898) p.lO. 



Isochilns proUfer R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Keiv. edit. 2. V (1813) 

 p. 209; Lind/, in Bot. Reg. X iab. 825 (excl. sy?i. Siv.J. 



Isochilus proliferum Lijidl. Gen. and Sj). Orch. (1831) p. 113 (excl. 

 .syn. Siv.). 



Ponera prolifera Rchb.f in Bonplandia II (1854) p. 22; Grisclß. 

 Flor. p. 623 (excl. syn. Sic). 



Flores albi vel pallide flavi. Fl. V. 



Hab. in Grenada supra arbores in sylvis ad mont. Mirabeau, 

 St. Georges, Annandale: Broadway n. 2515; Trinidad ad Maracas, 

 Aprio, Caparo: Broadway n. 1644, 2331. — Guiana, Brasilia. 



XXXIII. Neo-Urbania Fawc. et Rendle. 

 Faivc. et Rendle in Journ. of Bot. XLVII (1909) p. 125. 

 Sepala aequalia, conniventia, posticum liberum, lateralia pedi 

 coliunnae adnata, mt^ntuni sub labello formantia. Petala sepalo postico 



