cm. long, decreasing inwards. Flowers rose-colored. Dorsal 
sepal oblong-ligulate, obtuse, 3-nerved, up to 11 mm. long and 
3 mm. wide; lateral sepals connate for 3 mm. at base, together 
cymbiform; free portion linear-oblong, obliquely acute, each 
up to Il mm. long and 3 mm. wide. Petals linear-oblong, 
rounded at apex, erose-denticulate above, 3-nerved, up to 10 
mm. long and 2 mm. wide. Lip suborbicular, lightly excised in 
front with wavy and obscurely denticulate margin, slightly 
gibbose at base, provided with a pair of small ovoid calli, up to 
12 mm. long and wide. Column winged, more or less sigmoid 
with a prominent chin. Ovary cylindric, ribbed, sessile, up to 
15 mm. long. 
Since Reichenbach did not describe the floral details a new 
description is given here, prepared from the type. There are 3 
specimens in existence. The type is in Geneva, a duplicate of it 
in the Reichenbach Herbarium in Vienna, while the third, with 
the original handwritten label, once part of the Lambert Her- 
barium, is in the British Museum of Natural History. A good 
illustration is to be found in Hamer, Las Orquideas de El 
Salvador 1: 157, 1974, where it is called Elleanthus cephalotus. 
The basally connate sepals are unique in the section. 
Elleanthus Glomera Garay, nom. nov. 
Basionym: Glomera brasiliensis Barb. Rodr., Gen. et Sp. 
Orch. Nov. 1: 147, 1877. 
Type: Brazil; Prov. S. Paulo, near Santos, MOSEN 3485 (S). 
An examination of Rodrigues’s original drawings of floral 
details of Glomera brasiliensis, now in the Library of the 
Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames, has convinced me that this 
species is sufficiently distinct from the FE. brasiliensis. 
Elleanthus Hookeranus (Barb. Rodr.) Garay, comb. nov. 
Basionym: Evelyna Hookerana Barb. Rodr., Gen. et Sp. 
Orch. Nov. 2: 166, 1881. 
Syn.: Elleanthus brasiliensis var. Hookeranus (Barb. 
Rodr.) Cogn. in Mart., Fl. Bras. 3(5): 327, 1901. 
Lectotype: Brazil; Prov. Rio de Janeiro, Serra d’ Estrella, 
BARBOSA RODRIGUES 5.2. No specimen known 
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