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lamma oblique elliptico4aii«toiata, acuminata, baw «ubiotundato-ciiixata, 

 albo- vel flavido-maciilata, 6 — 9 cm longa, infra medium, 2,3 — 3 cm lata, 

 petiolo gracili, canaliculato, 6 — 7 cm longo, scapo gracillimo, subflexuoso 

 vel substricto, vaginis c. 5 — 9 amplcctentibus, acuminatissimis, digsitis 

 obsesso, tereti, apicem versus glanduloso-piloso, supra basin 2 — 3 mm 

 diametiente; racemo erecto, sublaxe vel subdense (15-)multi-floro, cylin- 

 draceo; usque ad 7 cm longo; bracteis subpatentibus, lanceolatis, acumi- 

 natis, ovarium aequantibus vel paulo superantibus ; floribus in genere 

 inter minor'es, inversis, glabris, Ulis C. Wageneri Rchb. f. similibus; sepalo 

 intermedio anguste oblongo, obtusiusculo, uninervio, 3 mm longo, laterali- 

 bus oblique oblongis, obtusiusculis, 2-nerviis, intermedio aequilongis; 

 petalis oblique lineari-ligulatis, obtusis, uninerviis, quam sepala paululo 

 brevioribus, eciliatis; labello subsessili, ovato, obtuso, sepalis paululo 

 breviore supra medium leviter angustato, maculis 2 flavidis ut videtur 

 leviter incrassatis medio confluentibus e basi usque ad tertiam partem 

 apicalem obtecto, nervis 3 incrassatis usque supra medium ornato, nervis 

 2 brevibus basi additis, omnibus ramulis paucis apice incrassatulis brevibus 

 auctis; columna mediocri, rostello subulato, satis longo; ovario anguste 

 cylindraceo fusiformi, breviter glanduloso-pilosulo, c. 4 mm longo. 



Cauca: c. 2000 m. — M. Madero. 



In ihren Blüten erinnert diese sehr schlanke Art etwas an C. Wageneri 

 Rchb. f., ist aber durch die schlank gestielten Blätter und drüsig-behaarten 

 Schäften und Ovarien gut unterschieden. Auf den Blättern sind deutlich 

 unregelmäßige heUe Fleckchen erkennbar. 



Ponthieva elata Schltr., nov. spec 



Terrestris, erecta, 50 — 75 cm alta; radicibus fasciculatis, carnosulis, 

 villosis; foUis basilaribus 4 — 5 erecto-pat^ntibus, longipetiolatis, glabris, 

 lamina oblique elliptica vel lanceolato-elliptica, acuminata, 5,5^ — 14 cm 

 longa, medio fere 2,5^ — 4 cm lata, petiolo canahculato 5^ — 11 cm longo; 

 scapo stricto vel substricto, gracili, tereti, praesertim apicem versus glandu- 

 loso-puberulo, vaginis 3 — 5 amplectentibus, acuminatis (inferiori nunc 

 foliaceo) obsesso, supra basin c. 3 — -3,5 mm diametro; racemo subdense 

 m'ultifloro, erecto, usque ad 15 cm longo; bracteis oblongis, subacutis, 

 ovario pedicellato 2 — 3-plo brevioribus; floribus in genere mediocribus* 

 illis P. Türckheimii Schltr. similibus, erecto-patentibus, inversis; sepalö 

 intermedio oblongo-ligulato, obtusiusculo, extus glanduloeo-piloso, 9 mm 

 longo, lateraHbus liberis, falcato-elhpticis, obtusis, basin versus angustatis, 

 10,5 mm longis, extus glanduloso-pilosis ; petalis columnae usque infra. 

 Stigma adnatis, e basi unguiculata cuneatis, abrupte dolabriformi-dilatatis^ 

 6 mm altis, lamina 5 mm lat«-; labello paryulo, ungue columnae usque 

 infra stigma adnato, lamina libera circuitus pandurato-oblonga, 2,5 mm 



