Epidendrum atropurpureum Willd. var. la- 
ciniatum Ames, Hubbard & Schweinfurth var. nov. 
A typo labelli lobi medii marginibus irregulariter 
laciniatis et basi longe cuneata differt. 
Lateral lobes of the lip small, variable in shape, not 
arching over the column as in the typical form, outer 
margins sparsely sinuate-dentate, anterior margin of free 
portion 4.9-6 mm. long; mid-lobe obovate in outline 
from along-cuneate base, about 8 cm. long, 2.45 cm. wide 
just above the middle, apex truncate-retuse, margins a- 
bove the cuneate portion irregularly dentate-laciniate. 
The variety is readily separable from the typical 
form in the irregularly dentate-laciniate margins and the 
long-cuneate base of the mid-lobe of lip. 
Panama, foothills east of city. ‘‘Sepals and petals are the same 
as Epid. atropurpureum, lip is a pink with dentate or notched margin, 
the lateral lobes are very small and do not meet over the column. color 
rose pink.’’ At sea-level, C.W. Powell 287 (Tyrer in Herb. Ames No. 
25017.) 
Epidendrum bractescens Lindley in Bot. Reg. 
26 (1840) Mise. p. 58. 
Epidendrum aciculare Bateman apud Lindley in 
Bot. Reg. 27 (1841) Mise. p. 46. 
Kpidendrum linearifolium Hooker in Bot. Mag. 77 
(1851) t. 4572. 
Lpidendrum esculentum Hort. Kew.in Herb. Hooker 
ex Lindley Fol. Orch. Epid. (1858) p. 15, a synon. 
Encychia acicularis Schlechter Orchideen (1914) 207. 
The earliest name for the species usually known as 
Epidendrum aciculare is E.bractescens. This name has 
not been accepted in the past,— although as far back as 
1861 Reichenbach (in Walp. Ann. 6 (1861) 833) reduced 
it to synonymy under J. aciculare,— because the plant 
typifying the species is abnormal. The abnormality (as 
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