The Reichenbach drawing of the upper portion of the 
plant shows two linear-lanceolate leaves about 15 cm. 
long and 1 em. wide surmounting a stem concealed by 
persistent leaf-sheaths. Peduncle up to the inflorescence 
slender, about 12 em. long, with three or four close tu- 
bular sheaths. Inflorescence racemose. Flowers rather 
small for the alliance, subtended by scale-like bracts. 
Sepals and petals reflexed. Lip 4-lobed ; lateral lobes sub- 
rotund ; mid-lobe transverse, composed of two divaricate 
talcate lobules whose spread exceeds that of the lateral 
lobes, separated from the lateral lobes by a deep rounded 
sinus. In recent years Dr. Schlechter has determined as 
E..turialvae specimens with elliptic leaves and well-de- 
veloped paniculate inflorescences. This concept of 1. tu- 
rialoae seems to us to be erroneous. 
Epidendrum piliferum Reichb.f. of which the type 
isa Warscewicz plant from Chiriqui, Costa Rica. On the 
basis of photographs of material in the Reichenbachian 
Herbarium, Reichenbach’s interpretation would seem to 
be a plant with broadly elliptic acuminate leaves and a 
long-branched panicle,the branches recurved. The lobules 
of the mid-lobe are long and faleate-oblong. 
Lpidendrum resectum Reichb.f. Type sent to Veitch 
by Zahn from Chiriqui, Costa Rica. Described as having 
oblong-ligulate leaves (lanceolate, judged by the Reichen- 
bach drawing) and a branched panicle. Reichenbach’s 
drawing shows reflexed sepals and petals, the former ob- 
long-lanceolate. The lip is 8-lobed ; the lateral lobes semi- 
orbicular, more acute at their anterior end; the mid-lobe 
is 2-lobulate with an apicule between the porrectly di- 
vergent cuneate-oblong lobules whose spread is much ex- 
ceeded by that of the lateral lobes. The base of the mid- 
lobe is cuneate, and as the apical portion of the lateral 
lobes extends forward beyond the base of the mid-lobe 
the deep sinus is well-marked. 
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