Triniwap: Heights of Aripo, January 10-26, 1922, Broadway s.n. 
(Herb. Trin. 9902); Saut d’Eau, March 8, 1931, Broadway 7501 
(Herb. Ames 37540). 
Epidendrum Bradfordii Grisebach FI. Br. W. 
Ind. Isl. (1864) 613. 
The collection cited below represents an individual, 
probably of this species, with peloric flowers. /piden- 
drum Bradfordu, known hitherto only from the type 
collected by Bradford at Arima, is apparently a rare 
endemic. 
Trinwwap: Aripo, April 16, 1908, Broadway 2334 (Herb. Ames 
10662). 
Epidendrum cristatum Ruiz & Pavon Syst. Veg. 
(1798) 243. 
Epidendrum raniferum Lindley Gen. & Sp. Orch. PI. 
(1831) 109. 
Epidendrum raniferum Lindley var. luteum Lindley 
Fol. Orch. Epidendrum (1858) 53. 
Epidendrum cristatum has apparently not hitherto 
been cited from Trinidad, except for the collection Hart 
3669 which was reported as #. raniferum var. luteum. 
It would seem that the characters upon which Lind- 
ley based his varietal concept /utewm are neither fund- 
amental nor stable. The lip and the coloration of the 
flower are very variable in Mpidendrum cristatum, and 
since the variety was based on color and lip characters, 
I am reducing it to synonymy under Mpidendrum cris- 
tatum. 
A complete synonymy of E’pidendrum cristatum is 
givenin Ames, Hubbard and Schweinfurth ‘‘The genus 
Epidendrum in the United States and Middle America’’ 
(1986) 166 and by Schweinfurth in Bot. Mus. Leafl. 
Harvard Univ. 11 (1944) 222. 
Trinipav: July 29, 1865 (Herb. Trin. 1975); Botanic Gardens, 
1888, Broadway s.n. (Herb. Trin. 3669); Cedros, December 1889, 
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