Bates entered Honduras from the Pacific coast and ex- 
plored the country through which he passed in approach- 
ing Tegucigalpa and Danli from Ampala and Choluteca, 
and then, beginning in July 1931, James Brannon Ed- 
wards, working for the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard 
University, explored in the Departments of Tegucigalpa, 
Comayagua, Cortés and Yoro, adding materially to our 
records of the orchid flora and supplying specimens that 
shed helpful light on several perplexing problems. 
Before passing to a consideration of the orchid flora 
of Honduras as it is now known, | think it may be help- 
ful to give a list of the species cited by Schlechter, to- 
gether with a list of the species reported from Honduras 
up to the year 1928. 
Schlechter’s list is as follows:’(The species followed 
by an asterisk are cited from Honduras in Hemsley’s 
enumeration. ) 
1. Bletia tuberosa (.) Ames as Bletia alta (L.) 
Hitche. 
2. Brassavola nodosa (.) Lindl.* 
3. Catasetum maculatum AWunth* Probably refer- 
able to C. integerrimum Hook. 
4, Cattleya Bowringiana Veitch 
5. Coryanthes picturata Reichb. f. 
6. Npidendrum gratiosum Reichb.t. 
7. Kpidendrum stenopetalum HHooh.* 
8. Laelia rubescens Lind. 
9, Oncidium excavatum Lindl.* 
’Spiranthes is assigned three species in Schlechter’s table of genera, 
but only one, namely Spiranthes hondurensis Schitr., is referred to 
Honduras in the list of species. On page 349 of his enumeration, 
Schlechter assigned Habenaria to the genera coming from Honduras, 
but in his table of genera on page 368 he omitted this genus and under 
the Central American species he failed to cite Honduras as a locality 
from which material had been recorded. 
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