546 A. COGNIATJX: 



328. Cattleyopsis Ortgiesiana (Rchb.f.) Cogn. pseudobulbis cylin- 

 draceo-pyriformibiis, articiilatis, apice 1 — 3-phyllis; foliis crasse car- 

 nosis, rigidis, lineari-ligulatis, apice rotundatis vel oblique emarginatis, 

 margine revolutis, 7 — 10 cm. lougis, 10 — 13 mm. latis; pedunculo 

 communi gracillimo, compresso, simplici, superne plurifloro, 15 — 80 cm. 

 longo; pedicellis gracillimis, cum ovario 2 cm. longis; bracteis rigidis, 

 late ovato-triaugularibus, acutis, 2 — 3 mm. longis; sepalis oblongo- 

 ligulatis, acutis, 5-nervuIosis, 16 mm. longis, 5 mm. latis; petalis late 

 obovatis, apice rotuudato-subretusis, 15 mm. longis, 12 mm. latis; 

 labello cum columna in cupulam brevissimam counato, late obovato- 

 suborbiculari, basi cordato, apice leviter emarginato, margine crispulo 

 et creuulato, 15 mm. longo, 14 mm. lato, disco teuuiter pluricostato, 

 costis glabris laevibusque; columna claviformi, supra basin minute 

 obtuseque bidentata, 4 mm. longa. 



Bletia Ortgiesiana Rchb.f.! in Hamb. Gartenx. (1860) p. 120, 

 X.enia Orch. II jj. 61. 



Sepala petalaqiie roseo-purpurea, labellum intense purpureum. 



Hab. in Cuba: R. de la Sagra. 



XLVn. Tetramicra Lindl. 

 Undl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. (1831) p. 119; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. III 

 p. 532 (pari.). — Brassavola pari. Pfitx. m Engl, und Prantl, 

 Natürl. Pflanxenfam. II 6 (1888) p. 148. 

 Sepala subaequalia, libera, patentia. Petala sepalis similia. 

 Labellum basi columnae affixum, liberum vel basi cum columna 

 brevissime connatum, patens, trilobatum; lobi laterales in ungue brevi 

 distincti, nunc ampli patentes, nunc parvi auriculiformes; medius latus, 

 integer, basi contractus. Columna erecta, superne vel a basi late 

 bialata; clinandrii lobi vel dentes laterales saepe membranacei, posticus 

 parvus. Anthera terrainalis, opercularis, incumbeus, loculis 2 distinctis, 

 septo longitudinali interdum vix prominente imperfecte bilocellatis ; 

 pollinia perfecta 4, cerea, per paria in loculis segregata, parallele 

 compressa, appendiculis a basi marginibus applicitis connexa, additis 

 in quoque loculo polliniis 2 parvis vel imperfectis, ab apice appendi- 

 cularum descendentibus. Capsula oblonga, erostris. — Herbae ter- 

 restres vel epiphyticae, Indiae occidentalis incolae, rhizoraate repente, 

 caulibus foliatis vix incrassatis nee pseudobulbosis. Folia e rhizo- 

 mate intra vaginas imbricatas ad basin scapi 1 — 3, linearia, carnosa, 

 semiteretia vel brevissima crassaque, vel fere subulata gramiuea. 

 Pedunculus terminalis, elongatus, tenuis, rigidus. Racemus Sim- 

 plex, laxus, floribus mediocribus pedicellatis. Bracteae parvae. 



