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scarious, 8 mm. |.; bracteole below the ovary 1:3 mm. 1. Flowers 
‘white. Sepals 5-5 mm. 1. Petals 5 mm. 1. Lip, middle lobe, 
mm. 1. nearly 3 mm. br. Column 2 mm. 1.; foot 2 mm. 1. 
Ovary 8 mm. 1. Capsule (unripe) 1-6 em. 1. 
Hab.—On stony banks under shade; in fi. and fr. Sept.— 
March; Lancaster, 2500 ft., 7650, 7696, 7874, Harris ! 
Habenaria jamaicensis. Caulis basi paucifoliatus. Folia 3, 
4-15 cm.1. Bracts, sterile 5-2 em. 1., floral 2°5-1:5 em. 1. Pedi- 
cels about 5mm.1. Flowers greenish. Sepals, dorsal 6-7 mm. i. 
5-6 mm. br., lateral 6-5-9 mm. l., 3-5-4 mm. br. Petals, posterior 
segment 5:5-7 mm.1., 1-5-2 mm. br.; anterior segment 1:5-2 mm 1. 
Lip, middle lobe, 6:5-10 mm. lL, about 1 mm. br.; lateral 9— 
2mm. 1.; spur 13-16 mm. qe 
Hab.—On rocky or clayey, shady banks, in flower, Dec.—April, 
Mt. Hybla, 4000 {t., 7851; Clydesdale, 4000-4500 ft., 7854; 
Moody’s Gap, 3000 ft., 7768; near Cinchona, 4500 ft., 10,449: 
Harris ! 
_ Resembles H. distans Griseb. in the aggregation of the leaves 
at the base of the stem, and generally in the shape of the leaves, 
stans are longer. Grisebach’s species also 
differs in the bracts being about as long as, or longer than, the 
_ Lepanthes Wullschlaegelii. Typus in Herbario Regio Mona- 
censi. Herba parva, caulibus. folia ovalia, breviter acuminata 
longe excedentibus; vagine longw graciles ore ovato acuminato 
striisque ciliolata. acemi multiflori, foliis breviores; floribus 
distichis; bracteis ciliolatis, amplexicaulibus, late ovatis, Sepala 
ovata, acuta, coccinea; lateralia 3-connata. Petala obverse del- 
toidea, apice abrupte apiculato. © Labellum ad basin in lobos duos 
divaricatum, marginibus superis lanceolatis incrassatis columnam 
longam amplectentibus. Capsula parva, obovoidea. 
