separate entities. 
Epidendrum graniticum Lindl. of which the type is 
Schomburgk 195 from British Guiana. It is described as 
having attenuate ovoid pseudobulbs with two ensiform 
leaves much shorter than the many-flowered panicle. The 
sepals and petals are spreading and lanceolate, subequal 
and acute. The lateral lobes of the lip are linear-oblong, 
the mid-lobe unguiculate and obovate with the inflexed 
apex acute. Schomburgk noted the sepals and petals as 
green dotted with purple, the lip as white with a purple 
stain at its base and the stem six feet high. The photo- 
graph of the type shows the petals as spatulate-oblanceo- 
late. 
KH pidendrum gravidum Lindl. of which the type was 
collected by Hartweg at Xapatam, Mexico. It is de- 
scribed as having a scape nearly six inches high with four 
long-stalked horizontal green flowers, which never open. 
The ovary is described as olive-green, covered with pale- 
green warts. The flowers are said to be pendulous and 
long-pedicellate. Lindley’s statement that the flowers 
never open is not borne out by specimens clearly referable 
to this form, although the flowers of his specimen (as 1- 
lustrated in Sched. Orch. 4 (1928) t. 2) apparently did 
not open. 
Epidendrum guatemalense Wlotzsch of which the 
type was from Guatemala growing in the orchid-house 
of Mr. Allardt. It is described as 2-leaved, the leaves 
linear-lanceolate, 11-18 inches long and 4-1 inch broad. 
The sepals and petals are green minutely spotted with 
brown-violet; the sepals oblong, attenuate at both ends; 
the petals spatulate and short-acute. The lip is white, the 
lateral lobes enfolding the column, the mid-lobe orbicu- 
lar, deflexed and with narrow parallel violet lines. The 
auricles of the column, as seen in the flower from the 
type, are not so pronounced as one is led to believe from 
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