PLEUROTHALLIS. (6) SPATHACEE. 
zqualibus lateralibus infra medium connatis, petalis obtusis uninerviis, labello 
ovato obtuso utrin nque medio obtusangulo 
Peru (Ravines of Pichincha ; 
valley of Lloa on trees, i ril, Jameson) h.s. The specimens from which 
this was first described wer mall and imperfect. Others sent by D. 
Jameson show it to hav slender somewhat angular s 7” long ete 
34” —4" x 8”, and weak weeping spikes 1’ in a The flowers are w 
It is very like P. velatipes in the next section 
4, Labellum ovatum trilobum v, utrinque acutangulum. 
20. P. velatipes (Rehb. f. in Linnea 22. putes folio ee 
—— spicis debilibus nutantibus equali, sepalis lanceolatis ac sub- 
8 lat — — oe petalis ligulatis subtriveniis, Suelle’ store 
ror medium acutangulo— Venezuela, Funck & 
Schlim, he ; Morita ‘ei sp.—The — differences between this and 
. Fameso are such as ‘the specific chara a In my specimen 
21. P. pulchella (L. 0.12. Stelis pulchellaH. BK. 1.364, t. $0; folio oblon- 
go-la in petiolum angustato, spicis2—3 strictis secundis fo a 
longioribus, sepalis lanceolatis tis carinatis equalibus liberis, labello utrinque 1 
tol, grossé unidentato——Peru, Hun & Bonpl. (valley of Lloa i 5000 
Equador, “renee 63 & 179; New Grenada (on rocks near : 
3000, Hartweg) h. s. sp.——This seems to vary a little in the form of r the 
petals w which in ena cans are linear, in others Sbovaty; but always one- 
22. P, laurifolia (Rchb.f. in Bonplandia, Jan. id 1854) ; —— _ ie otic 
utrinque angustato, racemo valido rarifloro, sepalo rsali galea 
et oso acuto superné verrucoso inato sepalis 
pauléd brevioribus—— ——I am quite at aloss to und 
upon what kable plant has been referred to the P. laurifolia 
fH. BK. oer is expressly d mn ye be a to P. oem: a well-known 
species Al Ih ver Ss anything to sols Lee 
description a at al applies. He aaa a pee of bi his plant is stout and abou 
igh 3 and the leaf 6”’ x 2—3” ; that it has an acute keeled spathe; ssi that 
s | in Schlimia jasminodora, that is to say a full inch 
tong sake 4 inch across the tube. Had this P. laurifolia been described by a 
ibed 
idologist than Professor Rchb. it might have been reason- 
ably “doubted hotter the plant is a Pleurothallis at all. 
5. Scene ACUMINATA MEMBRANACEA, 
Se folio one = sepals ii 
fi sor tren erya Tabello ovato-l raided 
at 10,200’, Schlim, 757) h. about 9” ate - close fitting 
ropes ot middle, Flowers violet, nearly an inch long Leaf, of nee size, 
6” x 24”. (Column semiterete, scarcely extended at base. Anther-bed oblique. 
_ Rostel subulate.' - : . ea. 
24. P. lanceolata (LO. 5); folio oblongo-la seein aperra 
: clone, 
avo in Hb. Lambert 5 Penal Fendler, 1476. h. s. sp. . 
L 5 “Flowers = on the 
as in the our. 
