104 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



lato, profunde trilobato, lobls lateralibus 12-15 mm. longis, oblongis, 

 subfalcatis, obtusis, erectis, apice leviter recurvis, intermedio brevius- 

 cule unguiculato, late rotundato, basi late cuneato, apice profundius- 

 cule emarginato, margine crispo, disco inferne bicarinato, carinis 

 carnosis; columna triquetra, 10-12 mm. longa, antice canaliculata, 

 apice auriculis membranaceis incurvis rotundatis. Flores purpureo- 

 fusci; labello albo, inferne lineis numerosis radiantibus purpureis 

 ornato. 



This species dififers from Epidendrum plicatum Lindley in that the 

 former has a deeply emarginate lip, the sinus being 6-8 mm. deep and 

 cutting the median lobe about one-third across. E. hrevifolium is 

 most nearly related to Epidendrum phosniceum Lindley but differs 

 from the latter particularly in the much shorter leaves, which in 

 E. phosniceum are 25-30 cm. long. E. hrevifolium has also fewer 

 flowers, longer pedicels, the base of the median lobe of the lip not 

 truncate but broadly regularly narrowed, while the color of the lip 

 is white marked below with purple lines, not purplish-violet nor crim- 

 son as described for E. phceniceum. The flowers had no odor. 



Abundant on palm trunks in the Los Indios pine-barrens. 



Type. Pine-barrens near Los Indios, on palmetto trunk, May 

 17, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 314 (Herbarium, Carnegie Museum). 

 Of the same species is also a specimen collected on an old tree near 

 Los Indios, May 17, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 312. 



227. Epidendrum cochleatum Linnaeus. 



Epidendrum cochleatum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, II, Ed. II, 1763, p. 135 1. 



Top of Mt. Colombo, May 12, 1910, G. A. Link (0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 210). General Distribution: From the Bahamas and southern 

 Florida through the Greater Antilles, and from Mexico to Venezuela. 



228. Epidendrum anceps Jacquin. 



Epidendrum anceps Jacquin, Selectarium Stirpium Americanarum Historia, 1763, 



p. 224, t. 138. 

 Epidendrum secundum Swartz, Observationes Botanicse Quibus Plantae Indiae 



Occidentalis, etc. 1791, p. 325, excluding synonyms (not Jacquin). 

 Epidendrum fuscatum Smith, Spicilegium Botanicum, 1791, p. 21, t. 23. 

 Epidendrum amphistomum A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural 



de la Isla de Cuba, XI, 1850, p. 20, PI. 81. 



On trees at top of Caballos Mts., May 13, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 228. General Distribution: From Florida through the West 



