NOMENCLATORIAL NOTES. III. 
BY 
CHARLES SCHWEINFURTH 
Maxillaria crassifolia Reichenbach filiusin Bonpl. 
2 (1854) 16. 
Epidendrum sessile Swartz Prodr. Veg. Ind. Oce. 
(1788) 122, non Maarllaria sessilis Lindl. (1845). 
Heterotavis crassifolia Lindley in Bot. Reg. 12 
(1826) t. 1028. 
Dicrypta Baueri Lindley Gen. & Sp. Orch. PI. 
(1880) 44, (1882) 152—Bauer & Lindley Il. Orch. 
Pl., Gen. (1888) t. 5. 
Mawillaria sessilis Fawcett & Rendle Fl. Jam. 1 
(1910) 120, non Lindley (1845). 
Mawillaria gatunensis Schlechter in Fedde Repert. 
Beihefte 17 (1922) 68. 
Owing to the prior use of the name Maaillaria ses- 
sills by Lindley in 1845, for quite a different species, its 
later use by Fawcett and Rendle is invalid. 
In the description of the Panamanian M. gatunen- 
sis, its separation from JM. crassifolia was based on its 
somewhat larger brighter-colored flowers, broader petals 
and distinctly 8-lobed densely short-papillose lip. 
However, we have examined a blossoming specimen 
distributed as the type number of M. gatunensis and this 
plant shows flowers scarcely to be distinguished in size, 
degree of lobing of the lip or papillose character of the 
dise from typical examples of M.crassifolia from Costa 
Riea, Cuba and Brazil. While the description of M. gatu- 
nensis gives the length of the sepals as about 2 em., our 
example of the type number shows sepals 1.5—1.6 em. 
long. The color of M. crassifolia is a variable and thus 
unreliable character. 
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