PLEDROTHALLIS. 687 



P. GLANDULIGERA, Linil. — An elegant plant with small ovate fleshy leaves; 

 scape very slender, 6 inches long, bearing about a dozen flowers, which are 

 small pale yellow, streaked with green and reddish-purple. Flowers during the 

 summer months. — Brazil. 



P. GROBYI, Lindl. — This is a very jsretty plant when iu flower, leaves about 



2 inches high, petiplate linear, oblong, obtuse ; scape slender, erect, some 



3 inches or more high, bearing a raceme of from six to twelve flowers, which 

 are small, veined with crimson. It blooms at various seasons. — Cuba. 



Fid.— Bot. Me;;., t. 1797 ; Bot. Mmj., t. 3682. 



P. INSIGNIS, Rolfe. — A large flowering species, the flowers being 2f inches 

 in length. In habit of gi'owth the plant resembles a Masdevallia, forming a 

 tuft about 6 inches high; flowers greenish-white; upper sepal having three 

 purplish stripes ; lower sepals with two stripes of purple near the margin ; lip 

 dai'k purple. — JSTew Grenada. 



Fm.— Bot. Mag., t. 0936. 



P. LAMPROPHYLLUM, BoU.f. — A very interesting species, producing long 

 erect many-flowered racemes from the top of the stems ; the flowers are pale 

 straw-yellow, deliciously scented, on which account alone it would be worthy of 

 cultivation. A fine specimen of this is now in the collection of W. S. Kimball, 

 Esq., of Rochester, New York. — Tropical America. 



P. LEUCOPYRAMIS, Rchh. /.—A plant which rarely exceeds 6 inches in 

 height; the leaves are lanceolate, fleshy, and deep green; scape erect, slender, 

 bearing a raceme of many flowers, which are small and of the purest white. 

 Flowers during the autumn months. — Central America. 



¥iG.—Xi'nia Orch., iii. t. 210, ff. 1—9. 



P. LONGISSIMA, Lindl. — Stem slender, bearing a single oblong leaf, which 

 is some 5 inches long and 1 inch broad, thick and fleshy in texture and deep 

 green; scape slender erect, upwards of a foot long, bearing a dense secund 

 raceme of flowers, which are white tinged with yellow. Flowers in the spring 

 months. — West Indies. 



Fm.—Hooh. Exot. Ft., ii. t. 123 ; Lodd. But. Cab., t. 949. 



Syn. — P. racemijlora. 



P. ORNATA, Bchb.f. — An exceedingly pretty little species, producing leaves 

 about 1 inch long, the flowers being less than ^ inch in diameter, pale purplish- 

 brown ; the margins of the sepals are densely fringed with comparatively large 

 white cirrhi, which upon the slightest touch or breath of air are swayed to and 

 fro. It flowered in the Royal Gardens at Kew, and in the Victoria and Paradise 

 Nurseries. — U. 8. of Colombia. 



P. PICTA, Lindl. — This is a lovely little plant densely tufted, the leaves 

 are petiolate, narrowly spathulate and deep green ; scape very slender, erect, 

 some 3 inches high, many flowered, laxly set, flowers small, yellow or white, 

 with crimson lines. Blooms in the spring ani summer months. — Denerara, 

 and Surinam. 



Fia.—Bot. Reg., t. 1825 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3337. 



Syn. — P. surmamensis. 



