the presence or absence of basal leaves and the conspicu- 
ousness of the anterior constriction of the lip are variable 
and consequently unreliable characters, and it would ap- 
pear that we are concerned with a single species extend- 
ing from southern Mexico to Costa Rica. 
Spiranthes polyantha Reichenbach filius in Lin- 
naea 18 (1844) 408. 
Spiranthes Galeottiana A. Richard & Galeotti in 
Comptes Rend. Acad. Sci. Par. 18 (1844) 509, 518, 
nomen; in Ann. Sei. Nat. ser. 8, 8 (1845) 82. 
Gyrostachys polyantha O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. 2 
(1891) 664, 
Tbidium lucayanum Britton in Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 
5 (February 1909) 312. 
Spiranthes lucayana Cogniaux in Urban Symb. An- 
till. 6 (December 1909) 338. 
Mesadenus Galeottianus Schlechter in Beihefte Bot. 
Centralbl. 87, Abt. 2 (1920) 868. 
Mesadenus lucayanus Schlechter in Beihefte Bot. 
Centralbl. 87, Abt. 2 (1920) 868. 
Mesadenus polyanthus Schlechter in Beihette Bot. 
Centralbl. 87, Abt. 2 (1920) 369. 
We have recently received from the Reichenbachian 
herbarium in Vienna a habit drawing with floral analysis 
of Spiranthes polyantha collected at Oaxaca by Galeotti. 
While the type of the species was noted as ‘‘Chapulte- 
pac... Leibold’’, the only specimen of S. polyantha extant 
in the personal herbarium of Reichenbach is the Oaxaca 
collection cited above. This record appears to be in nearly 
exact agreement with a specimen of iS. Ga/cottiana col- 
lected by Galeotti at Oaxaca preserved in the Muséum 
d’ Histoire Naturelle at Paris—a specimen which may 
reasonably be regarded as the type of S. Galeottiana. 
In a photographic record and in the very brief de- 
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