of the above species which was described from cultivated 
material without pseudobulb, roots or definite locality. 
Plant small, about 20 cm. high. Roots fibrous, stout, 
whitish, glabrous. Pseudobulb oblong-pyriform, about 
3 cm. high, bifoliate near the apex, concealed by several 
imbricating, scarious, evanescent sheaths which are pro- 
gressively larger upward. Leaves linear, abruptly suba- 
cute, rigidly chartaceous, up to 15 cm. long and 9 mm. 
wide. Inflorescence little surpassing the leaves, very 
loosely 8-flowered above with a fractiflex rachis. Pedi- 
cellate ovary about 1.8 cm. long, strongly verruculose. 
Parts of the flower very similar to those described, ex- 
cept that the mid-lobe of the lip is lightly retuse. 
VenezueLa: State of Bolivar, north base of Cerro Baraguan at 100 
meters altitude, epiphyte on low trees, ‘‘tepals dull yellow; lip white, 
becoming pale yellow, streaked with purple,’’ occasional, January 12, 
1956, J. J. Wurdack and J. V. Monachino 41202. 
Epidendrum rectopedunculatum C. Schweinf. 
forma denticulatum C. Schweinf. form. nov. 
Herba labelli lobulis valde denticulatis a specie differt. 
This collection of a highly variable species has con- 
spicuously denticulate lobes of the lip. In this instance, 
as in some other collections, the lobes of the lip are dis- 
tinctly separated by sharp sinuses. 
VenezueLa: Territory of Amazonas, Cerro Sipapo (Pardque), be- 
tween Base Camp and open scrub savanna 3 km. southwest of Base 
Camp, at 125-200 meters altitude, February 8, 1949, Bassett Maguire 
§ Louis Politi 28809 (Tyre in Herb. Ames No. 69539). 
Epidendrum remotiflorum C. Schweinfurth sp. 
nov. 
Herba epiphytica, mediocris, usque ad 41 cm. alta. 
Radices numerosae, fibrosae, glabrae. Pseudobulbi ap- 
proximati, in sicco anguste pyriformes, unifoliati, circiter 
2 cm. alti, vaginis marcescentibus celati. Folium lineari- 
oblongum, subacutum vel obtusum, ad basim sessilem 
[ 18 | 
