BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
Campripce, Massacuuserts, JUNE 29, 1982 No. 
A NEW EPIDENDRUM 
FROM SPANISH HONDURAS 
BY 
OakKES AMES 
From Mr. J. B. Edwards, who has been collecting 
in the vicinity of San Juancito, Honduras, there has 
been received a species of Epidendrum which appears to 
be undescribed. It is closely related to EH. arbuscula 
Lindl. differing from it in both vegetative and floral 
characters. ‘The unbranched stems, linear-lanceolate 
leaves, shorter floral bracts and pedicels, and the some- 
what smaller flowers in a paniculate rather than racemose 
inflorescence are conspicuous differentiating characters. 
In H. arbuscula the naked portion of the peduncle is 
very short and stout, while in the new species the pe- 
duncle below the flowers is elongated and very slender. 
Epidendrum Edwardsii 4 mes, sp. nov. 
Herbaterrestris. Radicesalbidae, glabrae, carnosae. 
Caules plus minusve erecti, foliosi, foliis distichis lineari- 
lanceolatis, infra folia vaginis persistentibus arcte ad- 
pressis. Pedunculus elongatus, satis gracilis, basi 
bractea scariosa vaginanti instructus. Inflorescentia 
laxe paniculata, pauciflora. Sepala similia, oblonga, 
acuta, patentia. Petala spathulata, acuta. Labellum 
