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latter 4"'-8"' broad; flowers 3'" long, "yellow and purple-variegated withiu." — Hab. 

 Jamaica !, Macf., Pd., Saner., oa trees, near Blue Mountains Peak. 



31. Ii. sanguinea, Sook. "Stem filiform, about as long as the leaf : sheaths glabrous ; 

 leaf elliptical, hltmUsh, longer than the short, fascicled, 1-Jtoteered peduncles ; perigonial 

 divisions exterior deltoid, ciliate, lateral cohering to the middle, interior transversely oblong ; 

 lip-segments ovate " (sec. icon.). — Sot. Mag. t. 4112. — " About 1" high ; leaf 6"' long, 4"' 

 broad; flowers crimson." — Hab. Jamaica (^Hook.). 



32. Ij. concinna, Sm. (fi.). Stem filiform, puberulous, longer than the leaf: sheaths 

 with an ovate-rouudish, ciliolate limb ; leaf mate, pointed, cuneate-rounded at the base, 

 about twice as long as the single (-fascicled), distichous, spiciform, peduncled racemes ; 

 perigonial divisions exterior broadly ovate, pointed, cohering at the base, lateral to beyond 

 it, spreading, interior half as long, half-cordate-lauceolate, acuminate; "lip-segments in- 

 curved-linear, converging, inserted near the summit of the column." — Sw. Adnot. t. 2./. 4. 

 — L. tridentata, Undl. PI. Wr. 1510 (non Bot. Reg., non Su>.).—i,"-6" high; leaf 2"-S"' 

 long, 10"'-5"' long; flowers l"'long, " yellow, crimson within." — Has. Jamaica, Wullschl., 

 on trees : [Cuba I]. 



33. Ii. cochlearifolia, Swi. Stem somewhat rigid, hispid, longerthan the leaf: sheaths 

 with an ovate-roundish, ciliate limb; leaf ovate-roundish, with a bhmtish point, twice— 

 thrice as long as the fascicled, or solitary, few-flowered peduncles ; perigonial divisions ex- 

 terior ovate, acuminate, all cohering at the base, spreading, " interior transversely lanceo- 

 late-linear, acuminate, half as long ; Up-segments iucurved-linear, spreading, inserted at the 

 base of the column."— ^Sw. Adnot. t. 2./. 1.— 2"-3"high ; leaf 1" long, 8"'-10"' broad; 

 flowers 2'" long, " purple." — Hab. Jamaica !, Wils., on trees and rocks, very rare. 



3. STELIS,£^w. 



Character of Pleurothallis, but column short, furnished with two lateral appendages at 

 its summit. Perigonial dioisions exterior cohering at the base, interior minute. — Flowers 

 racemose, usually veiy small. 



34. S. ophioglossoides, Sw. (£.). Leaf oblong-linear, bluntish, long-tapering at 

 the base, longer than the stem, shorter than the peduncled, 1-sided, slender raceme ; peri- 

 gonial divisions exterior deltoid, "interior and lip aiigolar-truneate." — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. { 

 211 : leaf broader than in our forms, and racemes fascicled. — ^Epidendrum, Jacq. S. sca- 

 brida, Undl., is described as a lower plant with a narrower leaf-base : ^aoh forms are not 

 distinguishable in the herbarium.— Leaf 4"-6"(-2i") long, 6"'-4"' broad ; flowers J'" long, 

 "greenish with a tinge of purple." — Hab. Jamaica!, Wils., March; Dominica {S. sca- 

 iWi^ffi, Lindl.), S.Vincent! (apparently the same) ; Trinidad !, .BraiiJ^. ; [Cuba ! and Mexico ! 

 to Guiana!]. 



35. S. micrantha, Sm. (HooTc. .'). Leaf laneeolate-oblong, bluntish, contracted- 

 tapering at the base, usually shorter than, or as long as the stem, exceeded by the slender, 

 spiciform raceme ; flowers nodding, 1-sided-distichous ; perigonial divisions exterior deltoid, 

 "interior and lip truncate."— Leaf 2V'-1" long, 8"'-4"' broad ; flowers " whitish, red within." 

 — Hab. Jamaica !, March, on trees and rocks in the mountains. 



4. OCTOMERIA, M. Br. 



Lip jointed with the produced base of the column : perigonial divisions nearly distinct, 

 interior inserted into the base of the column. Column naked : polUnia 8, obovate-oblong, 

 —Stem \-leaved, as in Pleurothallis ; &ovievsfascicled, at the base of the leaf. 



36- O. graminifolia, S,. Br. (JJ.) Leaf lanceolate-linear ; flowers " pale-yellovf, with 

 two red spots ■" perigonial divisions ovate-laneeolate, interior little shorter; lip cuueate- 

 oblone blunt 'or minutely denticulate at the summit, obliquely 2-crested, and with 2 short 

 lateral'lobes at the middle.— 5o<.ifei'.<.2764.-Bpidendrum,i.-Stem8 serial along a 

 creeping, primary axis; leaf 4'" broad; flowers 3'" long. ^, • . ■ 



a Leaf longer than the stem (5"-4" long) ; lip nearly as long as the mterior perigone. 



B. ophioglossoides. Leaf about as long as the stem (3" long) ; lip hdf as long as the m- 

 terior perigone.-Stelis ophioglossoides, Hieb. PI. Mzxt. 452 ! {non Sw). 



Hab. Dominica !, Imr. (a, ^) ; [Guadeloupe ! (^)l. 



