separation. 
In the flowers I have examined the labellum is by no 
means so cordate as in Reichenbach’s analytical sketches, 
but it is probable that in the plate prepared for Saunders 
Refugium Botanicum the tendency toward a cordiform 
base was overemphasized. Indeed, in the original sketch 
of the labellum of the Wagener plant, Reichenbach’s out- 
line of the basal portion indicates uncertainty, because 
he modified his drawing with supplementary lines. 
The plate in Saunders Refugium Botanicum shows 
yellow sepals strongly suffused with mauve along the 
nerves, petals which are yellowish on the lower half and 
mauve on the upper half and the labellum yellowish-green 
with a mauve border. In the dried specimens I have ex- 
amined, the flowers appear to have been yellowish 
throughout and in his description of Wagener’s plant 
Reichenbach described the flowers as being yellowish 
when dry. However, Saunders’ plant is structurally so 
similar to the ones from Mt. Duida and from Honduras 
that it would be unwise to regard them as distinct species 
until more material has been seen. Reichenbach’s draw- 
ing and his description of the gynostemium are mislead- 
ing and should be disregarded. 
The following description and notes are based on the 
specimens collected in Honduras by Edwards. 
Plants 8-12.5 em. tall. Roots glabrous, whitish, fi- 
brous. Secondary stems ascending, densely caespitose, 
variable in length, slender, 5-70 mm. long, completely 
concealed by two to six closely appressed elongated tubu- 
lar sheaths, monophyllous. Sheaths up to 1.5 cm. long, 
gradually dilated upward, terminating in an infundibuli- 
form marginate ostium; margin of the ostium muriculate 
or very finely hispidulous. Leaf coriaceous, oblong-ellip- 
tic, marginate, very shortly petiolate, 1.5—-8.7 em. long, 
up to 9 mm. wide, bidentate at the apex with the mid- 
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