or undulate near the apex or throughout; disc as in the 
typical form, the three to five central veins usually more 
prominent, all the veins apt to be verruculose to verru- 
cose. Column straight to somewhat recurved, with ob- 
secure angles varying to large incurved rounded auricles, 
5.1-7.5 mm. long dorsally. 
Variety gravidum is the most variable and perplex- 
ing of all the varieties. The specimens which in the past 
were referred to 1’. peraltense show strong tendencies to- 
ward var. ramonense in the often somewhat recurved col- 
umn, but the flowers are smaller and the lateral lobes of 
the lip are more apt to taper toward their apex and to 
approach, in this character, the form heretofore recog- 
nized as HH. eravidum. The larger rounded auricles sug- 
gest the typical form of the species. 
DistrRiIBUTION: Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa 
Rica and Panama. 
Epidendrum oncidioides Lind/. var. Moorea- 
num (Rolfe) Ames, Hubbard & Schweinfurth comb. nov. 
Lpidendrum mooreanum Rolfe in Kew Bull. (1891) 
199. 
Kncycha Tonduziana Schlechter in Fedde Repert. 
Beihette 19 (November 1923) 1382. 
Eneyclia Brenesti Schlechter in Fedde Repert. Bei- 
hefte 19 (November 1928) 221. 
Plant up to about 80 cm. tall (perhaps more), caes- 
pitose. Pseudobulbs ovoid or pyriform to eyvlindric, 2- 
to 4-leaved. Leaves lorate or linear-lanceolate, 18-80 em. 
long, 1.4-2.8 em. wide. Inflorescence much exceeding 
the leaves, simple- or compound-paniculate with short or 
long fractiflex branches, loosely flowered. Pedicellate 
ovary commonly smooth, very rarely sh@htly verruculose 
toward the summit. Flowers tend to be more fleshy than 
those of the other forms of this alliance and to have more 
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