Refugium Botanicum. | | October, 1872. 
TAB. 118. 
Tribe MALAXIDEX. 
Genus PLEuROTHALLIS, R. Br. 
P. Fuorecten, Lichb. fil. in Bonplandia, 1854, p. 25, 15 Jun.! 
Densissime cespitosa, radicibus intricatissimis nudis, caule 
secundario gracili bipollicari, nunc longiore, vaginis 4-5 arcte 
appressis nervosis, ostio dilatato ovato mucronato dense fim- 
briato, vagina summa laxa ampla folii basin tegente, folio 
oblongo basi cuneato apice attenuato minute bidentato sub- 
carnoso, pedunculis subcapillaribus fasciculatis quatuor ad 
quinque hysterochronicis, dimidio longiori inferiori vaginulis 
arctis brevibus retusiusculis membranaceis tribus seu quatuor 
hine inde vaginatis, parte superiori densissime florigera, bracteis 
arctis vagineformibus, ostio ovato acuto, minutissimis, floribus 
distichis transversis alternantibus, flavidulis hyalino purpureo 
aspersis, sepalo summo ovali abbreviato, inferiori elongato 
ligulato apice suo subdivaricate bilobo, nervo utroque dorso 
carinato, tepalis ovatis acutiusculis minutis semiuninerviis, 
labello brevissime unguiculato ovali basi cordato trinervi, 
column rostello lato trilobo, lobis lateralibus obtusangulis, 
lobo medio dentiformi, anthera dorsali.—Pleurothallis floripecten, 
Rehb. fil.!' Lindley, Folia Orchidacea, Part 1x. Pleurothallis, 
ING, 21 
The original discoverer of this neat, elegant plant, well called 
by Dr. Lindley “‘a very remarkable plant,” is my friend Herrmann 
Wagener, Eisq., then of Caracas, now of Hamburgh, who collected 
it in Venezuela, near Jaji. I never saw anywhere any vestige of 
this delicate thing, except in September, 1867, when W. Wilson 
Saunders, Esq., sent me a good sketch and an inflorescence from 
his garden. Then I obtained, at Reigate, the living plant. 
This is all my acquaintance with the plant. It has, however, 
had to lend its name for other purposes. 
Professor Grisebach has done his best to name the Orchids of 
the West Indies. In his ‘Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium,’ 
there appears, at p. 260, a Pleurothallis floripicta, Lindl. Orch. Wn. 
syn. P. melanantha, G. Rchb. 1. c. (Wn. 1509, 3342). Iam sorry 
to be compelled to make the following remarks. A Plewrothallis 
floripicta, Lindl., has never been published, least of all in the 
‘List of the Orchidaceous Plants collected on the Coast of Cuba, 
