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The material was divided and one part sent to Mr. Oakes Ames' 

 Botanical Laboratory, while the other was sent to the New York 

 Botanical Garden, with the hope that the specimens might con- 

 tinue to grow and flower in one or both of these institutions, as 

 the plants found had well developed buds, but no open flowers. 

 Unfortunately both specimens were damaged by cold weather 

 before they reached their destinations, and they both died. For- 

 tunately, however, the best plants were sent to Mr. Ames who 

 made careful camera lucida drawings of the parts of the flower- 

 bud. Mr. Ames tentatively referred the plants to Tetramicra 

 Eulophiae Reichenb. f. in a paper published in the Proceedings 

 of the Biological Society of Washington 19: 2. 1906. 



In September of the following year, 1904, Mrs. Britton col- 

 lected specimens of the same orchid on New Providence, Baha- 

 mas; and the dissections, and the field notes made by Dr. Britton, 

 correspond almost exactly with the dissections and notes made 

 by Mr. Ames. 



Mr. Eaton's continued exploration of the Everglade Keys in 

 1903 and Mr. Carter's and the writer's further exploration of 

 that region in 1904 failed to reveal further specimens, although 

 diligent search was made. However, while we were in the pine 

 woods in the vicinity of Long Prairie in October, 1906, Mr. 

 Carter again found two plants at a point about two miles south 

 of the locality where he discovered similar plants in 1903. 



Further study of the plant proves it to be a complete novelty. 



I take pleasure in naming it for Mr. J. J. Carter, of Pleasant 



Grove, Pennsylvania, who was the first one known to lay eyes 



on it. 



. Carteria gen. nov. 



Caulescent herbs with clustered fleshy tubers and erect simple 

 stems. Leaves various, the basal ones firm, narrow, with plicate 

 blades, the cauline ones mere sheathing scales. Flowers several, 

 erect, axillary to scale-like bracts. Perianth colored. Sepals 

 nearly equal, narrow, longer than the petals. Petals decidedly 

 narrower than the sepals. Lip short, sessile, slightly 3-lobed at 

 the apex, with the middle lobe much longer than the lateral ones, 

 the body with 5 longitudinal crests. Capsules erect. 



