. Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae . which I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. D. Prain. This sketchshows a slender plant with wand-like stems and linear, bract-likeleaves. The inflorescence is loose, somewhat one-sided, and few-flowered. Contrary to the description published by Grisebach,the middle division of the labellum, as shown by the sketch, ismuch shorter than the lateral divisions. The material from whichthe sketch was prepared was collected in Trinidad by Dr. Crueger,and was used by Grisebach in his work on the Flora of the BritishWest Indian Islands;
. Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae . which I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. D. Prain. This sketchshows a slender plant with wand-like stems and linear, bract-likeleaves. The inflorescence is loose, somewhat one-sided, and few-flowered. Contrary to the description published by Grisebach,the middle division of the labellum, as shown by the sketch, ismuch shorter than the lateral divisions. The material from whichthe sketch was prepared was collected in Trinidad by Dr. Crueger,and was used by Grisebach in his work on the Flora of the BritishWest Indian Islands; consequently the discrepancy between thedescription and the material at Kew is of unusual interest. Kranzlin, in Orchidacearum Genera et Species, states that theanterior division of the petals is longer than the posterior division,but not twice longer, as described by Grisebach, and he describesthe labellum as tripartite, with the middle division about twiceas long as the lateral ones. (Plate 70.) ^U. setacea, which Cogniaux has described as //. Cruegeri. [ 212 ]. HABENARIA^T-^Vurd J?, ORCHIDACEiE Plate 70 I. Habenarm mesodactyla. Drawn from a sketch,prepared by M. Smith, of the specimens collectedin Trinidad, British West Indies, by Dr. Crueger(no. 66), and preserved in the herbarium at theRoyal Botanic Garden, Kew. 1. Flower. 2. La-bellum and column. 3. Petal. II. Habenaria Leprieuri. Flower drawn from adried specimen collected in Trinidad, BritishWest Indies, by W. E. Broadway. 4. Petal. 5. La-bellum. Flower and parts drawn, enlarged, withthe aid of the camera lucida. [ 213 ] ORCHIDACEiE 38. H. Leprieuri , in Linnaea 19:376 (1847), in 1: 798 (1848), Otia bot. Hamb. 2: 50 (1881); Warm., 30,91, t. 8,f. 1 (1884-5);/iTrans/., in Engl. Bot. :101 (1893),Orch. Gen. etSp. 1:256 (1897);Co^7i., in Mart. 3, pt. 4, 47 (1893), in Urban Symb. Antill. 6: 301 (1909). 12. Habenaria Leprieuri: spica pauci- (2-6-) flora, florib
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