the older Lepanthopsis microlepanthes (Griseb.) Ames. 
The complete synonymy appears above. This species 
occurs in Cuba and Jamaica. 
Malaxis termensis (A7rédnzl.) C. Schweinf. var. 
elata C. Schweinfurth var. nov. 
Herba altitudine majore, foliis late ovatis conspicue 
acutis, floribus minoribus a specie differt. 
Plant apparently witha creeping rhizome. Stems about 
43 em. high including the rachis of the inflorescence, only 
slightly thickened below. Lower part of stem concealed 
by two or more tubular sheaths of which the upper are 
elongate and leaf-bearing. Leaves 2, subopposite, broad- 
ly ovate, sharply acute, appearing sessile, but abruptly 
contracted into sheaths, about 9 cm. long, up to 6.1 em. 
wide, about 14-16.5 cm. above the base. Inflorescence 
abbreviated, subumbellate, many-flowered. Flowers very 
small, membranaceous, greenish. Sepals with strongly 
revolute sides. Dorsal sepal oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 
about 2.8 mm. long and 1 mm. wide. Lateral sepals 
obliquely oblong-ovate, obtuse, subequally long with the 
dorsal sepal, but wider (about 1.8 mm.). Petals linear, 
obtuse, shorter than the sepals. Lip suborbicular-ovate, 
abruptly narrowed to a blunt apicule, with a large 2- 
celled concavity below, about 1.7 mm. long and slightly 
broader. Column minute. 
Peru: Amazonas, Prov. of Bongara, Pomocochas, at about 2400 
meters altitude, terrestrial in ridge forests above Quebrada Santa Rosa, 
northeast across Lake Pomocochas, April 4, 1944, W. H. Hodge 6152 
(Tyre in U.S. Nat. Arb. No. 183663). 
Epidendrum cyperifolium C. Schweinfurth nom. 
nov. 
Epidendrum microtos Reichenbach filius var. grandi- 
florum C. Schweinfurth in Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard 
Univ. 11 (1943) 98. 
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