Epidendrum blepharichilum Avénzlin var. ma- 
jus C. Schweinfurth var. nov. 
Herba habitu robustiore et foliis duplo latioribus et 
fHoribus duplo majoribus a specie differt. 
Stems loosely branching, entirely concealed by long 
tubular sheaths which are scarious and without leaves 
in the lower portions but green and leaf-bearing above, 
up to 6 mm. in diameter across the sheaths. Leaves lan- 
ceolate-linear, 11-14 cm. long, 12-14 mm. wide, nar- 
rowed to an acute point. Inflorescence loosely paniculate 
with three strict branches issuing from elongate-infundib- 
ulitorm spathes which are produced into linear foliaceous 
blades. Pedicellate ovary spreading, up to 17 mm. long. 
Flowers rather fleshy. Dorsal sepal oblanceolate-elliptic, 
sharply acute, 14 mm. long, about 4.8 mm. wide above, 
5-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely elliptic-lanceolate, 15 
mm. long and 4.6 mm. wide, 5-nerved, with a shortly 
acuminate fleshy apex. Petals oblanceolate-linear, acute, 
about 13 mm. long and 1.5 mm. wide, 1l-nerved. Lip ad- 
nate to the column nearly to the apex ; lamina replicate in 
natural position, deeply cordate at the base, suborbicular 
in outline, irregularly fringed throughout, retuse at the 
apex with a fleshy recurved apicule, about 13> mm. in 
greatest length and almost equally wide, slightly con- 
stricted (and thus trilobulate) above ; dise bicallose at base 
with the longitudinal central portion fleshy-thickened. 
Column strongly dilated above, very oblique at base, 
about 10 mim. long. 
Apurimac: Proy, Abancay, Ampuy, at 3200 meters altitude, ““epi- 
phytic on an old Podocarpus . . . stems over 1 m: sepals and 2 slender 
petals reddish olivaceous, greener at the tips; the fringed lip light 
lavender rose; racemes pendent,’’? February 12, 1939, H. E. Stork, 
O. B. Horton & C. Vargas 10611 (Tyrer in Herb. Field Mus. No. 
1051131).—A collection of a fruiting plant intermediate in size be- 
tween the species and the variety showing coarse fibrous roots bears the 
following data: Huadnuco: Cani, seven miles northeast of Mito, at about 
2600 meters altitude, April 16-26, 1923, J. Francis Macbride 3461. 
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