Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 101 



The flowers, as noted in the field, were flesh-pink and rather sweet- 

 scented. 



223. Epidendrum Boothianum Lindley. 



Epidendrum Boothianum Lindley, Botanical Register, XXIV, 1838, no. 7. 

 Epidendrum bidentatum Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, 

 p. 262, not Lindley. 



Collected in March, 1904, near Columbia, by Dr. Jared F. Shafer, 

 and since grown in his conservatory in Pittsburgh. In fine flower, 

 July 17, 1916, at which time specimens were dried for the herbarium 

 of the Carnegie Museum. General Distribution: Cuba and the 

 Isle of Pines, also southern Florida and the Keys. 



An attractive plant with yellow, brown-spotted, widely spreading 

 sepals and petals, and a yellow lip, and succeeding very well in the 



conservatory. 



224. Epidendrum pallidiflorum Hooker. 



Epidendrum pallidiflorum, Hooker, Botanical Magazine, 1830, PI. 2980. 



Northern part of the island, /. Blain, Nos. 82, 122; reported by 

 Millspaugh, Field Columbian Museum, Botanical Ser., I, 1900, p. 426. 

 General Distribution: Isle of Pines, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Domin- 

 ica, Martinique, and St. Vincent. 



225. Epidendrum obcordatum sp. nov. (Plate XVIII.) 



Epiphytic: the pseudo-bulbs aggregated, numerous, narrowly ovoid, 

 nearly or completely terete, at the apex rather strongly attenuate, 

 with one or rarely two leaves, 3.5-5 cm. long, leaf rather thickly 

 coriaceous, linear-ligulate, somewhat obtuse, narrowed at the base, 

 shortly conduplicate, 12-30 cm. long, 12-25 mm. wide, the margin 

 entire, peduncle slender, flexuous, in the upper half often quite 

 abundantly producing short branches, laxly many-flowered, 3.5-6 dm. 

 long, pedicels slender, with the ovary 14-19 mm. long, the bracts 

 triangular, acute, 1-4 mm. long, sepals oblanceolate-oblong, rather 

 obtuse, 9-11 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, 7-nerved, petals linear-spatu- 

 late, 9-10 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. wide, somewhat obtuse, 5-nerved, 

 lip 9-1 1 mm. long, deeply three-lobed, the lateral lobes erect, 6 mm. 

 long, 2 mm. wide, obtuse, the middle lobe rounded, 5 mm. wide, 

 strongly constricted at the base, the lower part of the disk thickly 

 bicostate, the apex distinctly emarginate, the sinuses between the 

 terminal and lateral lobes about i mm. wide and somewhat obtuse; 

 column free to the base, about 4 mm. long, furnished along the front 



