BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. JANUARY a; 1978 Vor. 26, No. 
STUDIES IN AMERICAN ORCHIDS X* 
LESLIE A. GARAY 
In preparing the final manuscript of the Orchid Flora of 
Colombia and Ecuador a number of correlated material from 
the neighboring countries had to be investigated. These studies 
which cannot directly be incorporated into the main text of the 
‘*Flora’’, are presented here. Number IX of this series was 
published in Botanical Museum Leaflets, 24: 299-304, 1973. 
Habenaria linguicruris Rchb.f., Bonpl. 2: 10, 1854. 
Type: Venezuela; Caracas, WAGENER 96! (W). 
Syn.: Habenaria Ernstii Schitr., Fedde, Rep. Beih. 6: 26, 
1919. 
Type: Venezuela; Caracas, ERNST s.n.! (AMES). 
A comparison of the holotypes of H. linguicruris and H. 
Ernstii with one another has shown them to be conspecific. 
Porphyrostachys parviflora (C. Schweinf.) Garay, stat. nov. 
Basionym: Stenoptera pilifera var. parviflora C. Schweinf. 
in Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harv. Univ. 9: 222, 1941. 
Syn.: Stenoptera parviflora (C. Schweinf.) C. Schweinf. in 
Fieldiana Bot. 33: 4, 1970. 
Type: Peru; Huanuco, Llata, MACBRIDE & FEATHERSTONE 
2301! (F). 
*This study is supported by a grant DEB 73-01354-A03 of the National Science 
Foundation which is gratefully acknowledged. 
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