BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
Vor. 16, No. 1 
CamsBripGk, MassacuuseTts, Fepruary 12, 1953 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 
ON TROPICAL AMERICAN ORCHIDS 
BY 
CHARLES SCHWEINFURTH 
THE following miscellaneous notes regarding Tropical 
American Orchids include the description of new vari- 
eties, nomenclatural changes and amplifications of older 
species. 
The order of genera follows the system proposed by 
R. Schlechter in Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und 
Museums Berlin-Dahlem 9 (1926) 5638-591. 
Gomphichis Koehleri Sch/tr. var. minor C. 
Schweinfurth var. nov. 
Herba quam species typica multo humilior, cum foliis 
minoribus et vaginis caulinaribus approximatis et sepalis 
extus conspicue pilosis, non subglabris. 
Plant about 6.6 dm. high differing strikingly from the 
type in its much smaller vegetative size throughout. 
Roots (not described in the type) fascicled, tuberous, 
long, simple, lanuginose. Leaves five or six, basal or 
subbasal, oblong-ligulate, acute, slightly narrowed be- 
low, up to 13 em. long and 1.5 cm. wide. Stem stout, 
nearly concealed by about eight tubular acute sheaths. 
Raceme densely many-flowered, about 8 cm. long (with 
the apical flowers undeveloped in our specimen). Flow- 
ers yellowish cream-color, not whitish as in the type. 
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