slightly more so) and sometimes dentately so in the /. 
modestiftorum form, subacute to acute. Petals 4.5-13 
mm. long, .8—2.8 mm. wide, linear to linear-spatulate, 
acutish to rounded-obtuse. Labellum adnate to the col- 
umn the entire length of the column; lamina simple to 
occasionally subtrilobulate, ovate to triangular-ovate, 
lanceolate-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-9 mm. long, 2-5 
mm. wide, rounded or obtuse to subacute, acute or acu- 
minate at the apex, cordate or subcordate at base; callus 
somewhat variable in the distance that it extends down 
the lamina, its base usually distinctly bifurcate, its apex 
occasionally tending to be trilobulate and thus approach- 
ing var. muvtum. Column stout, extending slightly be- 
yond the cordate base of the lamina of the labellum, its 
apex truncate to dorsally excavated, with or without two 
divergent dorsal terminal teeth (these more apt to be 
present in the 27. modestiflorum form and also in var. 
imbricatum). 
Epidendrum ramosum Jacq. var. imbricatum 
(Lindl.) Ames, Hubbard & Schweinfurth, comb. nov. 
Epidendrum imbricatum Lindley, Gen. & Sp. Orch. 
(1831) 110, non Lam. 
Epidendrum paranaense Rodrigues, Gen. et Sp. 
Orch. Nov. 2 (1882) 189 (fide Cogn.). 
E’pidendrum imbricatum Lindl. var. angustifolia 
Cogniaux in Martius, Fl. Bras. 8, pt. 5 (1898) 171. 
Epidendrum biflorum Cogniaux in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
ser. 2. 2 (1902) 387, text cut, nec Forst.f., nee Ruiz 
& Pav., nec Rodr. 
Epidendrum Boissierianum Schlechter in Beihefte 
Bot. Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2 (1918) 459. 
Kpidendrum santaclarense Ames in Sched. Orch. 4 
(1923) 49 
Plant usually stout and branched, though oceasion- 
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