descriptions and may or may not be separable from //. 
paniculatum. The status of one member of this alliance 
(KE. fastigiatum Lindl.) is in doubt, as it is only known 
to us through the original description and a photograph 
of thetype sheet in the Lindley herbarium on which Lind- 
ley has made drawings including one of the lip. Judging 
by the aspect of the plant and this drawing of the lip, it 
would seem that 2’. fastigiatum Lindl. is only asynonym 
of HE. paniculatum, but the evidence is not convincing 
enough to warrant reduction. ‘wo other members of this 
general alliance,— .parviflorum Ruiz & Pav. and £2. pa- 
tulipetalum Schltr. (which we believe represent one spe- 
cies) differ from H.paniculatum chiefly in their smaller 
flowers. ‘The petals and sepals are only 5 mm. long and 
the lamina of the lip 1.5 mm. long, 8 mm. wide. As these 
species are unknown to us through authentic specimens, 
it seems inadvisable to reduce them, though our feeling is 
that they merely represent exceptionally small-flowered 
forms of H.paniculatum. 
Epidendrum paniculatum Ruiz & Pavon, Syst. 
Veg. (1798) 243. 
Kpidendrum floribundum Humboldt, Bonpland & 
Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1 (1816) 858 (Quarto ed.), 
283 (Folio ed. ), t. 86. 
Hpidendrum densiflorum Hooker in Bot. Mag. 66 
(1840) t. 8791. 
Epidendrum rubrocinctum Lindley in Bot. Reg. 
29 (1843) Mise. p. 9. 
Epidendrum laeve Lindley in Bot. Reg. 30 (1844) 
Mise. p. 24. 
Epidendrum ornatum Wemaire in FI. des Serres 4 
(1848) 3348. 
Epidendrum floribundum ABK, var. lilacinum Rei- 
chenbach filius in Linnaea 22 (1849) 840. 
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