Honduras, is remarkable, but in this regard it has been 
found that several Mexican orchids extend to Comay- 
agua, indicating that intensive exploration may prove 
that many more may be characterized by a wider range 
than has been thought probable. 
In the original description, HMpidendrum rhyncho- 
phorum is referred to the section Encyclium, although 
the plants are described as being pseudobulbous with a 
divided labellum adnate to the column. John Lindley, 
when he prepared his monograph of Epidendrum for 
his Folia Orchidacea, placed the species in the section 
Aulizeum where it seems properly to belong. In con- 
formity with the characters laid down for Aulizeum the 
labellum is adnate to the lower half of the column, with 
the lateral lobes erect and concealing the anther. 
The following description has been prepared from 
dried specimens, and flowers preserved in alcohol. 
Epidendrum rhynchophorum 4. Rich. & Gal. 
in Comptes Rend. Acad. Sci. Par. 18 (1844) 805, 512, 
nomen; in Ann. Sei. Nat. ser. 8, 8 (1845) 20. 
EKpidendrum rhynchanthum Sch/tr. in Beihefte Bot. 
Centralbl. 36, abt. 2 (1918) 467 sphalm. 
Rhizome stout, prorepent, emitting coarse, fibrous 
roots. Pseudobulbs approximate on the rhizome, 3—5.5 
em. long. lageniform, slender or sometimes much swol- 
len, monophyllous, when immature completely concealed 
by ample, tubular sheaths. Leaves 13-26 em. long, up 
to 1 em. wide, linear-oblong, unequally bilobed at the 
apex. Peduncle terminal, 7-9 cm. long below the ra- 
ceme, slender with an elongated, spathaceous sheath at 
base in the axil of the leaf; raceme 6-12 cm. long, loosely 
3-7-flowered, with the flowers 1.3-2.5 em. apart. Bracts 
of the raceme squamiform, about 8 mm. long. Pedicels 
with the ovary 1.5-2 cm. long, glabrous. Flowers 
brownish near the base of the sepals, otherwise yellowish 
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