bus, floribus minoribus roseo-purpureis cum labello ex- 
apiculato a specie differt. 
Plant with stem consisting of several short strict 
branches, entirely concealed by tubular sheaths which 
bear leaves except at the base of the branches. Leaves 
elliptic or oblanceolate-oblong, acute, sessile at the cune- 
ate base, up to 6.5 cm. long and 1.9 cm. wide. Inflores- 
cence about 8.5 cm. long, erect and shortly recurved at 
the apex; peduncle about 2 cm. long, bialate, with one 
small infundibuliform bract; raceme loose, 5-flowered, 
with a fractiflex rachis. Flowers rather large, rose-purple, 
with spreading segments. Dorsal sepal elliptic, acute, 
minutely apiculate, 5-nerved, 1.5 cm. long, about 5.7 
mm. wide. Lateral sepals semielliptic or obliquely ellip- 
tic-lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved, with a deep keel near the 
apex, about 1.53 cm. long and 6.1 mm. wide near the 
middle. Petals linear-oblanceolate, oblique, subacute to 
obtuse, about 1.43 cm. long and 8.2 mm. wide above. 
Lip much larger than the other segments, adnate to the 
column up to the apex of the latter; lamina simple or 
nearly so, semiorbicular-reniform, very slightly indented 
or subretuse in the middle of each side, narrowed above 
to a broad subtruncate and lightly retuse apex, without 
any apicule, ecallose, deeply cordate at the base, about 
1 cm. long in the middle and 2.3 cm. wide. Column 
short, stout, much dilated above in front, about 8 mm. 
long at the back, extended on each side into an obliquely 
semiorbicular auricle. 
Peru: Cuzco, Prov. of Convencién, Sahuayaco, epiphyte at 1600 
meters altitude, January 17, 1947, C. Vargas 6295 (Type in Herb. 
Ames No. 63449). 
Epidendrum vincentinum Lindley in Hook. 
Journ. Bot. 8 (1841) 88, 809, t. 11; Cogniaux in Urban 
Symb. Antill. 6 (1910) 526. 
Epidendrum serricardium Schlechter in Fedde Re- 
pert. Beih. 19 (1928) 218. 
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