the thickening usually running out onto the three central 
veins which are farinaceous in their lower portion. Column 
short and very broad, very fleshy, about 5.4-6.5 mm. 
long,apex prominently 8-toothed, lateral teeth triangular, 
middle tooth larger, subquadrate and retuse or broadly 
rounded, 
Eipidendrum Ghiesbreghtianum is a close ally of E. 
hastatum Lindl.,but has much larger flowers and 2-leaved 
pseudobulbs. It is undoubtedly in the same alliance with 
HH. venosum Lindl. The aspect of its flowers is very sug- 
gestive of a Miltonia. 
Mexico, State of Oaxaca, parasite sur les chénes. Mars. Ghies- 
breght 6 (Type in Herb. Mus. Par,); road between Plunia and San 
Miguel, Suchistepec. Altitude 8,500 feet. March 21, 1895. E.W. 
Nelson 2506 (U.S. Nat. Herb.) : State of Guerrero, near Chilpancingo. 
At 1,400 meters altitude. Collected in 1927, flowered at Cuernavaca 
March 18, 1982, Erik M. Ostlund 2779+: Antonio ex Kienast-Zolly, 
Zurich, August 1889 (Herb. Kew.) 
Epidendrum Juergensii Reichenbach filius in 
Gard. Chron., ser. 2, 14 (1880) 524, in obs. 
Epidendrum gladiatum Lindley in Bentham, PI. 
Hartweg. (1840) 72, non Lindl., Gen. & Sp. Orch. 
Pl. (1831). 
Kipidendrum anisatum Lindley, Fol. Orch. Epid. 
(1853) p. 65, non La Llave & Lex. 
This inadequately known species has caused consid- 
erable confusion. Lindley originally confused it with 
gladiatum Ruiz & Pav. and later believed that he was 
dealing with H.anitsatum La Llave and Lex. Reichen- 
bach stated that the Lindley conception of H. anisatum as 
represented by the Mexican collection of Hartweg from 
Rancho del Ojo de Aguacould not be the plant described 
by La Llave and Lexarza. Unfortunately, however, 
Reichenbach failed to describe the species adequately and 
left us still dependent on the weak and somewhat faulty 
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