prominently carinate-thickened. Column stout, gently 
reflexed about at the middle, with prominent incurved 
rounded auricles, 7.2—8.5 mm. long dorsally. 
DisrrisutTion: Mexico,Guatemala, Honduras, Trin- 
idad, Colombia, Venezuela, Dutch Guiana (Surinam), 
French Guiana and Brazil. 
Epidendrum oncidioides Lind/. var. ramon- 
ense (Reichh,f.) Ames, Hubbard & Schweinfurth comb. 
NOV. 
Epidendrum ramonense Reichenbach filius Beitr. 
Orch. Centr.-Am. (1866) 81. 
Encycha ramonensis Schlechter in Beihefte Bot. 
Centralbl. 86, Abt. 2 (1918) 473. 
Encycha Powell: Schlechter in Fedde Repert. Bei- 
hefte 17 (December 1922) 46. 
Plant up to about one meter tall, caespitose with 
approximate pseudobulbs. Pseudobulbs ovoid to nar- 
rowly pyriform, 2- to rarely 4-leaved. Leaves linear-el- 
liptic to lorate, up to 60 em. long, up to 2.3 em. wide, 
acute to rounded at the apex. Inflorescence much sur- 
passing the leaves, laxly paniculate, the panicle simple 
or compound, with spreading often rather long branches. 
Pedicellate ovary smooth or slightly verruculose. Lateral 
sepals elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, more or 
less asymmetric, 14.2-18 mm. long, 8.7—4.8 mm. wide, 
acute or short-acuminate, dorsally carinate near the apex. 
Dorsal sepal elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 14— 
17.8 mm. long, 3.6—4.8 mm. wide, acute or short-acu- 
minate, thickened at the apex. Petals narrowly oblan- 
ceolate or oblanceolate to spatulate-oblanceolate, 14-17 
mm. long, 3—-5.5 mm. wide, subacute to short-acuminate, 
usually not much broader than the sepals. Lip 12-15 
mm. long from base of column to tip of mid-lobe; lateral 
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