BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
VoL. 3, No. 3 
CampripGce, Massacuuserrs, DecemBer 27, 1934 
CRITICAL NOTES 
ON COSTA RICAN ORCHIDS 
BY 
Oakes Ames, F. Tracy Hupparp 
AND CHARLES SCHWEINFURTH 
IN THE PREPARATION of an enumeration of the or- 
chids of Costa Rica, two new varieties were noted and it 
was found necessary to make a number of new combina- 
tionsand new names. The present paper describes the nov- 
elties and makes the necessary nomenclatorial changes. 
Gomphichis costaricensis (Sc//tr. ).A mes, Hub- 
bard & Schweinfurth, comb. nov. 
Stenoptera costaricensis Schlechter in Beihette Bot. 
Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2 (1918) 875. 
Since we consider Stenoptera costaricensis to be a 
Gomphichis and not a Stenoptera, the transfer to that 
genus necessitates a new combination. 
Goodyera erosa (4. & S.) Ames, Hubbard & 
Schweinfurth, comb, nov. 
E’pipactis erosa Ames & Schweinfurth in Sched. 
Orch. 10 (1980) 9. 
This species has not been transferred to Goodyera 
heretofore and therefore necessitates a new combination. 
Lepanthes Lindleyana Oerst. & Reichb.f. var. 
angustifolia 4 mes, Hubbard & Schweinfurth, var. nov. 
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