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is sigmoidly curved at the base, and the lateral sepals are connate. The 
scape continues to elongate and flower for a long time, as in Masdevallia. 
racemosa, one of the Lehmann specimens bearing as many as forty bracts, 
which are conduplicate, curved, and strongly keeled, giving it a very curious 
appearance, The capsule is muricate, and abottt eight lines long. 
The following are the known species :— 
K. Tuncuracuz, Kuntze, ex Pfitzer in Engl. e Prantl, Pflanzen., 
Nachtr. iii. p. 86. Otopetalum Tungurague, Lehm. & Kranzl. in Eng. 
Jahrb., xxvi. p. 457. Pleurothallis otopetalum, Schltr. in Fedde Rep. Nov. 
Sp., X. p. 292.—Ecuador ; in open woods at the foot of Mt. Tunguragua, 
near Banos, at 1500-2000 ft. alt., Lehmann, n. 8088; and in the forest of 
Shoray, Prov. Cuenca, 1800-2400 m. alt. Flowers ochraceous. 
K. PLATYRACHIS, Rolfe. Masdevallia platyrachis, Rolfe, in Gard. Chirottes 
1888, ii. p. 178. Pleurothallis platyrachis, Rolfe, in Journ. Bot., 1890, p- 
136, in note; Bot. Mag., t. 7129.—Costa Rica, at Sabonilla, E. Shuttle- 
worth. Flowered at Kew in October, 1884. 
K. muricaTa, Rolfe. Pleurothallis muricata, Schltr., in Fedde Rep. Nov- 
Sp., X. p. 293.—Guatemala, near Coban, at 15d0°m. alt. Turckheim, n. il. 
2392. 
K. sororta, Rolfe. Pleurothallis sororia, Schltr., in Fedde Rep. Nov- 
Sp., X. p. 294.—Costa Rica, in forest of Rancho flores, at 2043 m. alt., 
Pittier, n. 2157. 
K. RUFESCENS, Rolfe, n. sp.—The plant exhibited by Messrs. Sander 
& Sons has been described under this name. It bears a general resemblance 
to K. Tunguraguz, but is smaller in all its parts. The leaves are oblong, 
fleshy, and about four inches long, and the flowers, which are nearly } inch 
long, are reddish orange, with some dusky dots on the lateral sepals, and 
some similar stripes on the dorsal one. Messrs. Sander are not absolutely 
certain about the habitat, but they think it is one of Forget’s Peruvian 
plants. , R. A. ROLFE. 
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ERIODES BARBATA. © 
A inflorescense of a very curious Orchid appeared in the group 
exhibited by Messrs. Stuart Low & Co. at the R.H.S. meeting held 
on October 26th. We immediately recognised it as that of Eria barbata, 
Lindl., which elicited the remark that the plant bore no resemblance to 
an Eria. This is quite correct. It is the plant that was described by 
Lindl., in 1857; under the name of Tainia barbata, the author remarking + 
“We received a living specimen of this curious thing from Messfs- 
Loddiges last October. It is a native of the Khasia Hills, where Griffith 
found it on trees of Gordonia on the descent of the Suniassu Valley. We 
