The Peruvian collection cited below agrees well with 
Ei. Schlimii and thus extends the known range of this 
species from Venezuela. In this collection the flexuous 
inflorescence consists of remote abbreviated racemes and 
is thus to be described as a panicle. 
Peru: Hudnuco, Mufia, at about 2150 meters altitude, epiphyte, 
May 23-June 4, 1923, Macbride 3966. 
Epidendrum Schlimii Reichb.f. var. gracillimum 
(Reichb.f. & Warse.) C. Schweinfurth comb. nov. 
ipidendrum gracillimum Reichenbach filius & Wars- 
cewicz in All. Gartenz. 22 (1854) 314. 
Judging by arecord of Mpidendrum gracillimum from 
the Reichenbach Herbarium in Vienna and by a Peru- 
vian collection (Vargas 3268) which is referable to this 
concept, this entity appears to be merely a variety of 
Ei. Schlimu. It has stems (including the rachis of the 
inflorescence) about 10-19 cm. tall, while those of EF. 
Schlimi are about 10 cm. or less tall. The leaves are 
commonly about 4.5 cm. or more long, whereas those of 
EE. Schlimu appear to be about 8.4 em. or less in length. 
The inflorescence of J. gracillimum has distinct and rela- 
tively elongate branches, contrasted with the abbreviated 
and congested branches of 7. Sehlimii. A more signifi- 
cant discrepancy resides in the lip which is strictly simple 
in £, Schlimi and is distinctly 8-lobed with a short trans- 
verse bilobed mid-lobe in typical 2. gracillimum. Var- 
gas 3268, however, while otherwise coinciding with the 
type of the latter concept, has a lip which is simple with 
irregular margins or is very obscurely 8-lobed. 
Peru: Cuzco, Prov. of Convencion, ‘‘alturas de Pintobamba,”’ at 
2300 meters altitude, epiphyte, in small damp forest, perianth pink, 
March 3-4, 1943, C. Vargas 3268. 
Epidendrum subreniforme C. Schweinf. var. ra- 
mosum C. Schweinfurth var. nov. 
Herba caule pluribus cum ramis strictis, foliis longiori- 
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