BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
CamsBripGe, Massacuusetrts, Aprit 24, 1933 No. 
AN ADDITION TO 
THE GENUS EPIDENDRUM 
BY 
OAKES AMES 
IN 1923, while collecting in Spanish Honduras, | found 
near Tela, a species of Epidendrum which appears to be 
undescribed. It was growing in a swampy forest that re- 
ceives the flood waters of the Ulua River. The stems 
were pendulous from the trunk of a tree. Near Progresso, 
an inland town, I found another specimen of the same 
species growing in full sunlight on a rock beside a moun- 
tain stream. Owing to the pendulous habit of the stems, 
the flowers were inverted. This characteristic is clearly 
shown in the accompanying illustration. In August 1982, 
Mr. J. B. Edwards found this species near Lake Y ojoa, in 
the Department of Comayagua. Apparently it is widely 
distributed in Honduras although it has not yet been 
reported from neighboring countries. 
Epidendrum hondurense 4 mes sp. nov. Herba 
epiphytica, robusta. Caules foliosi, foliorum vaginis om- 
nino obtecti. Foliadisticha, oblongo-elliptica, acuminata. 
Inflorescentia terminalis, longe pedunculata, pedunculo 
vaginis pluribus ancipitibus ornato. Racemus multiflorus. 
Flores mediocres. Sepala lateralia oblanceolata, obliqua, 
concava. Sepalum dorsale simile. Petala angustissime 
spathulato-linearia. Labellum columnae valde adnatum, 
trilobatum, in basi cordatum; lobi laterales suborbiculares 
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