lobes oblong, triangular-oblong., oblong-ovate or sub- 
quadrate-oblong, very asymmetric, more porrect when 
expanded than in the typical form, 4-6 mm. long on the 
interior margin, obtuse broadly rounded or subtruncate 
at apex; mid-lobe ovate or broadly ovate to suborbicular, 
6.9-10 mm. long, 6.2-8.5 mm. wide, anterior margin 
plicate and more strongly inrolled toward the apex than 
in the typical form, short-acuminate to rounded at the 
apex, rounded-truncate or slightly cuneate at base; dise 
as in the typical form, but the veins more often somewhat 
verruculose. Column rather more reflexed than in the 
typical form, without auricles or with more or less dis- 
tinct angles or small dentiform auricles, 7—8.4 mm. long 
dorsally. 
Disrriputrion: Honduras, Costa Riea and Panama. 
Epidendrum oncidioides Lind/. var. gravidum 
(Lindl.) Ames, Hubbard & Schweinfurth comb. nov. 
Lipidendrum gravidum Lindley in Journ. Hort. 
Soc. 4 (1849) 114: ampl. Ames in Sched. Orch. 4 
(May 1928) 42, t. 2. 
2 Epidendrum giganteum Hort. Belg. apud J. E. 
Planchon Hort. Donat. (1855) 164, nomen, non 
Poiret. 
¢ Mpidendrum Giullemianum Hort. apud J. 1. Plan- 
chon Hort. Donat. (1855) 164, nomen. 
fucycha gravida Schlechter in Beihefte Bot. Cen- 
tralbl. 86, Abt. 2 (1918) 472. 
Ipidendrum alanjense Ames in Sched. Orch. 1 (No- 
vember 1922) 13. 
Hneycha Hunteriana Schlechter in Fedde Repert. 
Beihefte 17 (December 1922) 46. 
Kncyclia Powell’ Schlechter apud Ames in Sched. 
Orch. 4 (May 1923) 35 in synon., errore. 
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