NOMENCLATORIAL NOTES. II. 
BY 
CHARLES SCHWEINFURTH 
Sarcoglottis Schaffneri (Peichb.f.) Ames in Don- 
nell-Smith Enum. PI. Guatem. 7 (1905) 50. 
Spiranthes Schaffnert Reichenbach filius in Linnaea 
28 (1856) 382. 
Gyrostachys Schaffneri O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. 2 
(1891) 664. 
Pelexia Schaffneri Schlechter in Beihefte Bot. Cen- 
tralbl. 87, Abt. 2 (1920) 399. 
Sarcoglottis pubilabia Ames in Sched. Orch. 2 
(1923) 11. 
Sarcoglottis zamororae Ames in Sched. Orch. 2 
(19238) 13. 
A drawing of Spiranthes Schaffneri recently received 
from the Reichenbachian Herbarium at Vienna shows 
beyond the shadow of a doubt that this species should 
include as synonyms the plants described as Sarcoglottis 
pubilabia and Sarcoglottis zamororae. Both of these spe- 
cies differ from Spiranthes Schaffner in being commonly 
taller and always leafless at the time of blooming. How- 
ever, in the type number of Sarcoglottis pubilabia there 
is one mature plant with withered floral remains at the 
summit of swollen ovaries which bears a cluster of very 
young imbricating leaf-blades appearing roughly similar 
in miniature to those illustrated by the scarcely expanded 
leat-blades of Spiranthes Schaffnert. Furthermore, a re- 
cently examined Mexican specimen sent by Erik M. Ost- 
lund consists of a separate tuft of leaves said to belong 
to a collection which is certainly referable to Sarcoglottis 
Schaffneri.. Vhese leaf-blades (three in number) are of 
much the same oblong-elliptic shape as those shown by 
Reichenbach’s drawing of Spiranthes Schaffner’, but are 
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