Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2 (1918) 4038. 
Epidendrum modestifilorum Schlechter in Fedde Re- 
pert. Beihefte 19 (1928) 213. 
Spathiger ramosus Britton in Sei. Surv. Porto Rico 
and the Virgin Islands (Britton & P. Wilson, Bot. 
Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands) 5, pt. 2 (1924) 
202. 
Plant very variable in habit, upright, pendulous or 
apparently creeping, simple to much branched. Stems 
slender and often flexuous to stiff and rather stout (up to 
4mm. in diameter just below the inflorescences) 12 cm. 
up to 90 cm. tall or long, the main stem often somewhat 
woody, concealed by the persistent leaf-sheaths, often 
rooting above when creeping or decumbent. Branches 
variable in length and number, subtended by a leaf 
which is apt to be larger in dimensions than those of the 
branches or by a leaf-sheath, spreading or decumbent to 
upright. Leaves more or less coriaceous, very varied in 
shape, ligulate to linear-ligulate, lanceolate to oblong- 
elliptic and all intermediate forms, .9-12 em. long, 2-14 
mm. wide (usually less than 10 mm. wide), apex unequally 
bilobed. Inflorescence terminal at the end of the stem or 
branches, 2-flowered (J¢. modestiflorum) to several-flow- 
ered (if several-flowered usually lax and noticeably de- 
cumbent); rachis when elongate often somewhat fracti- 
flex, usually slender. Bracts of the inflorescence variable 
in size and texture, more or less conspicuous, more or less 
‘arinate when small, rounded and ecarinate on their back 
when large(’. modestiflorum),subacuteto rather rounded - 
obtuse, 5 mm. up to 1.7 em. long, up to 1.2 em. broad 
when spread, not maculate. Flowers variable in size and 
texture, usually somewhat coriaceous. Lateral and dorsal 
sepals similar, the laterals shghtly broader, 4.5-18 mm. 
long, 1.5-8 mm. wide, lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, more 
or less carinate at the apex on the exterior surface (laterals 
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