by Mr. C. Wright’ (Annals and Mag. of Natural History for 
May, 1858). If M. Grisebach had possessed, when writing on 
Pleurothallis, or had seen (as he did when writing his Flora) the 
monographs of Lindley, he would have found the Pleurothallis 
floripecten, Rchb. f. From a memorandum at hand, indeed, the 
late Doctor, in his last illness, confounded the Cuban plant with 
my species. But the Cuban plant, of which I have numerous 
specimens at hand, is immediately distinguished by its very short 
blackish purplish sepals and simply erect flowers never being 
transverse, and the two cannot be confounded. Now, since 
M. Grisebach had no quotation for any publication of Lindley for 
the “ Plewrothallis floripicta, Lindl,” I would lke to know what 
principles entitled him to call my published species (see Flora, 
1865, p. 278) a synonym. I must add that to the memorandum 
just quoted I have added “ Lepanthes floripecten, Rchb. fil.” (Lindl. 
in Herb. Hook. nec Pleurothallis floripecten, Rchb. fil.) It was 
Lindley who, perhaps by a failure of memory, had believed in a 
Lepanthes floripecten, Rehb. fil., but never published by me. 
Closely cespitose. Aérial roots naked, very intricate. Secondary 
stems slender, two inches high or more, with four or five very 
narrow nervous sheaths, bearing an ovate mucronate fimbriate 
expanded opening. Uppermost sheath wide, lax, covering the base 
of the leaf. Leaf oblong, cuneate at base, attenuate at the 
minutely two-toothed end, rather fleshy. Flower-stalks somewhat 
hairy, four or five, not flowering above; lower half longer, with 
three to four narrow short retuse membranous sheaths ; superior 
half densely floriferous. Bracts narrow, sheath-like, with ovate- 
acute opening, very small. Flowers distichous, transverse, 
biseriate, yellowish, with a purplish hue. All the sepals yellowish, 
with lilac veins; upper sepal ovoid short; imferior one longer, 
ligulate, bilobed at its apex, two-nerved, both nerves keeled on 
the outside. Tepals ovate, somewhat acute, small, with single 
nerves, ending before the apex yellowish with a lilac border. Lip 
shortly unguiculate ovate cordate, tri-nerved, yellowish, with a 
lilac border, not longer than the tepals. Colwmn very short, with 
a three-lobed rostellum; side lobes obtuse-angled; middle lobe 
tooth-like. Anther dorsal. Pollinia two, cohering with a little 
mass of glue. 
Materials :—Two specimens were originally in my herbarium ; 
one was presented to Dr. Lindley, making now part of the Kew 

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