ORCHIDACEAE QUAEDAM AMERICANAE 
showing the stigma with an anther on either side; stami- 
nodium overhanging the stigma. 7, gynostemium viewed 
from the side. 
Habenaria avicula Schltr. in Fedde Repert. 17 (1921) 
138. 
Habenaria patentiloba Ames in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 
34 (1921) 151. 
From studies of analytical drawings prepared from 
Schlechter’s type material of Habenaria avicula, it is clear 
that H. patentiloba should be reduced to synonymy. 
Pelexia hondurensis Ames sp. nov. Folia longe 
petiolata, lamina late ovata, acuminata, membranacea. 
Scapus elongatus, in racemum laxum productus. Sepala 
lateralia mentum saccatum formantia, lanceolata, acuta, 
glandulosa. Sepalum dorsale lanceolatum, prope basim 
valde concavum. Petala lineari-spathulata. Labellum in 
laminam suborbicularem productum, prope basim biauric- 
ulatum. Discus infra medium glanduloso-pubescens. Co- 
lumna infra apicem gracilis; rostellum in membranam 
oblongo-linearem productum. 
Roots fleshy, fasciculate (?). Leaves radical, imbricat¬ 
ing at the base, including the slender petiole up to 26 cm. 
long; lamina 10-13 cm. long, up to 8.5 cm. wide, broadly 
ovate, acuminate, acute, membranaceous, abruptly con¬ 
tracted at base; petiole up to 13.5 cm. long, slender, con- 
duplicate at base. Scape with the raceme about 40 cm. 
long, erect, with numerous elongated linear-lanceolate sca- 
rious bracts, short-pubescent above. Bracts 2-3.5 cm. long, 
the lower ones sheathing and closely appressed. Raceme 
about 26 cm. long, loosely many-flowered, about 4 cm. in 
diameter; rachis densely glandular-pubescent. Flowers 
obliquely ascending, with the pedicellate ovary about 3 cm. 
long. Bracts of the inflorescence about 2 cm. long, linear, 
acute, scarious, glandular-pubescent, tinged with purple in 
dried specimens. Pedicel with the ovary 1-1.5 cm. long, 
glandular-pubescent. Sepals forming a saccate mentum, 
linear-lanceolate, acute, including the mentum about 1.8 cm. 
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