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asyl ically triangular, the outer edges of the two forming an almost continuous line, 
2:2-4 mm. wide. Lip crimson, inserted above the base of the column; the middle lobe 
minute, apparently shortly bifid ; the side lobes appressed to the column, spreading at the 
middle to form a crimson upper surface which embraces the column, projecting back 
and front in a short lobe of which the anterior is the less blunt ; upper surface minutely 
ciliolate, 1-1-5 mm. from back to front. Column crimson, 1 mm. long. Anther sub- 
globose, emarginate. Capsule (unripe) 6-keeled, 5 mm. long. 
Hab. Top of Catherine Mt., Swartz. Near Mabess River, Portland, at 3000 ft., 
W. Harris, Nov. 22; John Crow Peak, I, Harris, Jan. 24, W. Fawcett, Sept. 5, 
Aug. 18; Newhaven Gap, at 5600 ft., W. Harris, Feb. 10; Morse's Gap, W. Harris, 
May; ridge above Morse's Gap, 5300 ft, W. Harris, April 22; Moy Hall, C. F. 
Sullivan, Sept. 14. 
Nore.—Swartz’s figure in Wickstr. Adnot. l. c. represents a larger plant than any that 
we have seen, having stems to 2 em. and leaves to nearly 2 em. long by 1:8 mm. broad. 
7. LePANTHES LoDDIGESIANA, Reichenb. f. Xenia Orchid. i. 145 (1856). 
L. tridentata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1762 (1835), non Swartz ; Griseb. Fl. Brit. West Ind. 610 (1864), “a 
form with reduced stems.” 
Herba pusilla, caulibus quam folia elliptica sepissime brevioribus ; vagina leves. 
Racemi solitarii, folia excedentes, 1-2-flori. Sepala ovata, acuta, lateralia ad 
medium connata. Petala sepalis dimidio breviora, cum apice obsoleto, tomentosa, 
lobis anticis obtusis, postieis longioribus, subtriangulis, acutis. Zabellwm basi con- 
cavum et basi column: adnatum, trilobum, lobis lateralibus ascendentibus, ciliatis, 
columnam amplectentibus, lobo medio incurvo, minimo, breviter acuto, obseurius 
eiliato. Columna brevis, bicornuta. 
Stems varying “from 2 lines to 2 inches in length." Leaves “12 inch long," with 
shortly acute apex, and tapering at the base into an obscure petiole. Racemes about 
half as long again as the leaves. Sepals equal, the dorsal purple with a yellow edge, 
the lateral yellow slightly tinged with purple, the surface frosted with brilliantly 
glittering tubercles. Petals deep purple, downy. Lip yellowish downy, the lower part 
tinged with purple, the upper surface of the lateral lobes somewhat lanceolate in shape, 
parallel with and protecting the sides of the column, which is prolonged above into a 
pair of small lateral horns, 
Hab. ** A native of the highest parts of the mountains of Jamaica, where it is found 
growing on the bark of trees, among mosses.” | 
We have not seen this plant. The description is compiled from the account and figure 
in the * Botanical Register, where it was assigned by Lindley to ZL. tridentata, Swartz. 
It differs widely from that species in the form of the petals and lip, which resemble 
somewhat those of L. pulchella; from the latter it differs in the union of the lateral 
sepals, which are moreover acute, not acuminate. 
