description of Lindley and the Herbarium sheet of the 
Hartweg plant which bears a rather sketchy drawing of 
the lip made by Lindley. 
Among the collections of Epidendrum from the 
Herbarium of Erik M. Ostlund are two numbers which 
‘areful study has led us to believe represent the #..Juer- 
gensu of Reichenbach. We herewith give an amplified 
description of the species based on these collections, bear- 
ing in mind the sheet in the Lindley Herbarium. 
Plant erect, 15-44 cm. tall. Roots long, coarse, fi- 
brous, fasciculate, finely tomentose. Stems caespitose, 
simple, leafless below, concealed by close tubular scarious 
evanescent sheaths, bearing near the summit three to four 
leaves, about 2-8 mm. in diameter. Leaves narrowly 
lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 8.6-17.8 cm. long, 4-8 
mm. wide, acuminate to an obtuse apex, coriaceous, with 
the margins revolute in the dried specimen, mid-nerve 
prominently sulcate above and conspicuous beneath. In- 
florescence much shorter than the leaves, strict, shortly 
paniculate with the branches subumbellate and more or 
less recurved. Peduncle to the lowest branch up to about 
2.8cm. long. Bracts of the inflorescence small (about 8-5 
mm. long), relatively rather broad, scarious, concave, 
subacute. Flower long-pedicellate, rather small, mem- 
branaceous. Sepals and petals revolute. Lateral sepals 
asymmetrically obovate to obovate-lanceolate, 5—7 mm. 
long, 2.5-8 mm. wide, very oblique at the base and adnate 
to the column, acute, more or less cucullate above. Dorsal 
sepal obovate-oblong, 4.1—7 mm. long, about 2—2.9 mm. 
wide, rounded and apiculate or subacute at the apex. 
Petals oblong-spatulate, 5-7.3 mm. long, about 1-1.5 
mum. wide, rounded to subacute. Lip adnate to the column 
to the apex of the column, reniform in outline, 3-lobed 
or 8-lobulate in front, 8-3.6 mm. long, 6—7.4 mm. wide, 
cordate at base; lateral lobes larger than the mid-lobe, 
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