NOTES ON A REMARKABLE COLLECTION 
OF ORCHIDS FROM PANAMA 
BY 
Charles Schweinfurth 
More than half of a recent collection of orchids 
from the Province of Chiriqui, Panama, represents spe¬ 
cies which are unrecorded from Panama. However, as 
indicated in a letter received from C. H. Lankester, “a 
large series of plants is common to Chiriqui (from high 
elevations especially) and Costa Rica, without being truly 
members of the Panama flora ....”. 
All of these specimens were collected in Panama, 
Province of Chiriqui, Boquete District between January 
5 and June 26, 1938 by Mrs. M. E. Davidson and are 
now incorporated in the herbarium of the Field Museum. 
The Davidson collections are often amplified by notes 
of color or show characters which appear to be additional 
to, or at variance with those shown by other collections 
in the Ames Herbarium. 
Elleanthus Tonduzii Schlechter in Fedde Repert. 
8 (1910) 567. 
Bajo Chorro, in rain forest, at 6000-7000 feet altitude, flowers 
white, Davidson 123; flowers yellowish green, Davidson 161 , 2£7 , 365. 
These specimens have no good flowers, but the vege¬ 
tative characters are apparently diagnostic. 
Gomphichis costaricensis (Schltr.) Ames , Hub¬ 
bard <| Schweinfurth in Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harv. Univ. 3 
(1934) 37. 
Stenoptera costaricensis Schlechter in Beihefte Bot. 
Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2 (1918) 375. 
Bajo Chorro, in rain forest at 6000-7000 feet altitude, Davidson 
163; “Height 6-10 in.”, leaves up to 10 cm. long, Davidson 309. 
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