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STELIS ophioglossoides. 
Narrow-leaved Stelis. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OxcutpEx: tribus Malaxidee. Lindl. Coll. Bot. ined. 
STELIS Swartz.’ Pollinia 2 cereacea integerrima; v. omnind libera, 
v. apicibus  viscidis cohwrentia, caudiculd. glandulaque nullis. Anthera 
terminalis opercularis 1-locularis decidua. S¢zgma subrotundum excavatum : 
rostello apiculato. Columna semiteres mutica. Labellum parvum sepalis 
interioribus nanis liberis subconforme. Sepala conniventia: exteriora basi- 
bus connata.——Herbee teneres, epiphyte, (Americe: equinoctialis) non bul- 
bose. Folia solitaria. Racemi subsimplices. Flores minuti, herbacei, in- 
odort et quandoque nocturni. 
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S. ophioglossozdes ; foliis tenuibus lanceolatis apice sepitis recurvis, spicis 
laxis, floribus cernuis quaquaversis obsoleté hexagonis, sepalis interi- 
oribus truncatis, labello basi subcordato. 
Epidendrumr ophioglossoides. Jacquin Amer. 225. t. 133. f. 2. 
Epidendrum trigonifloram. Swartz prodr.135. 
Dendrobium ophioglossoides. Swartz nov. act. ups. 6.83. 
Stelis ophioglossoides. Swartz in Schrad. diar. bot. 1799. p. 239. Willd. 
_ sp, 4.138." Lodd. bot. cab. t.442:>  - ’ : 
Folia solitaria, oblonga, glabra, plana, enervia, apice fered integra, in 
petiolo carnoso, canaliculato attenuata. Spica terminalis, filiformis, multiflora, 
folio longior, vaginis parvis, truncatis, acuminatis interrupt vestitu. Flores 
vespertini, minutissimi, resupinati, subsecundi, subrotundi, angulis 6 obsoletis. 
Perianthium subglobosum; sepala exteriora, ovata, obtusa, coriacea, basi 
connata, sub-fornicata, equalia, interiora nana, carnosa, truncata. Labellum 
carnosum, cum columnd parallelum, sepalts interioribus subconforme, lamind 
depress, cordatd. Columna brevissima semi-teres, sepalorum interiorum 
longitudine. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, unilocularis, decidua. Pollinia 
2, libera, caudiculd nulla. 
A native of Trinidad, whence plants were sent by 
Mr. D. Lockhart to Mr. James Colvill, in whose nursery our 
drawing was made. A tender stove plant, requiring the 
treatment of other epiphytal Orchidez. 
We find much diffictilty in ascertaining the true charac- 
ters by which |S. ophioglosscides and micrantha are to be 
