BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
VoL. 14, No. 3 
CamsripGe, Massacuusetts, DecemMBer 7, 1949 
NOMENCLATURAL NOTES 
AND NEW CONCEPTS OF TROPICAL 
AMERICAN ORCHIDS 
BY 
CHARLES SCHWEINFURTH 
Durinec the course of recent studies, I have found it 
necessary to make numerous changes in the status of 
published concepts, to amplify certain descriptions and 
to describe several orchids which appear to be new. This 
addition to the number of recorded species and varieties, 
together with many similar ones, shows that tropical 
America from the northern boundary of Mexico to the 
southern borders of Peru and Brazil is a veritable store- 
house of plants new to science. Only the collector and 
the taxonomist are necessary to bring these to light. 
The arrangement of the species follows the order pro- 
posed by Dr. Rudolf Schlechter in ‘‘Notizblatt des Bo- 
tanischen Gartens u. Museums Berlin-Dahlem 9 (1926) 
563-591. 
Cranichis ciliilabia C. Schweinfurth sp. nov. 
Herba terrestris, gracilis. Folia plura, plerumque ba- 
salia et petiolata; lamina ovata, acuta vel breviter acu- 
minata, parva. Caulis basi glaber, supra dense glanduloso- 
pubescens, vaginis pluribus remotis ornatus. Inflorescen- 
tia laxe pluriflora cum floribus parvis membranaceis. 
Sepala elliptica vel ovalia, acuta. Petala oblique elliptica, 
pro genere lata, dense ciliata. Labellum simplex, cuneato- 
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