bracts lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat exceeding half 
of the glabrous pedicellate ovary. Flower rather small, 
subfleshy, greenish yellow. Dorsal sepal lanceolate- 
elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate, complicate and apiculate 
at the apex, about 11—12.2 mm. long and 4.9-5 mm. 
wide, 3-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely and broadly 
lanceolate-elliptic, acute, dorsally carinate, obliquely in- 
serted at the base of the column, about 11—-12.5 mm. 
long on the posterior margin and 5.1 mm. wide. Petals 
linear-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 
slightly oblique, 1- or obscurely 3-nerved, about 10.1-11 
mm. long and 8 mm. wide. Lip adnate to the column 
up to its apex; lamina 3-lobed with the lateral lobes up- 
curved, cordate at base, about 6—6.5 mm. long in the 
center and 8-10.2 mm. wide across the lateral lobes when 
expanded; lateral lobes suborbicular-oval, with irregular 
or lobulate margins; mid-lobe distinct, elliptic-subquad- 
rate, truncate and lightly retuse in front, with the center 
longitudinally thickened; disc at base with a pair of 
prominent complanate obliquely semiobovate calli. Col- 
umn short and stout, dilated above in front, about 6.5— 
7 mm. high at the back. 
Peru: Apurimac, Prov. of Abancay, ‘“bosques de Ampay,’’ epi- 
phyte, July 1988, C. Vargas 2050 (Tyrr in Herb. Vargas).—Cuzco, 
Prov. of Calea, in the vicinity of the town of Lares, on rocks at 3200 
meters altitude, ‘‘leaves purple,’’ August 30, 1934, C. Vargas 3618. 
Epidendrum Schlimii Reichenbach filius in Lin- 
naea 22 (1849) 888; Lindley Fol. Orch. Epidendrum 
(1853) 64, no. 201, non #. Schima Lindley Fol. Orch. 
Epidendrum (1858) 74, no. 234. 
Epidendrum tenellum Lindley Fol. Orch. Epidendrum 
(1853) 44, no. 188. 
The identity of the concept Hpidendrum tenellum with 
the earlier 7. Schlimi has already been pointed out by 
Reichenbach f. in Walp. Ann. 6 (1862) 361. 
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