two widely separated conduplicate recurved bracts which 
are up to 2.1 em. long. Inflorescence terminal, capitate or 
subglobose, densely many-flowered, about 1.5 em. long 
and broad. Flowers small, very fleshy, rigid, subglobose, 
green. Dorsal sepal oblong-ovate, acute, deeply concave, 
7-8 mm. long, 38-8.7 mm. wide. Lateral sepals obliquely 
ovate, acute, concave, with a prominent more or less den- 
ticulate keel without, 7-8.5 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide. 
Petals obliquely linear-oblanceolate, falcate, acute or sub- 
acute, 1-nerved, 6.1—7 mm. long and 2.2 mm. wide. Lip 
strongly adnate to the column; lamina concave-condu- 
plicate in natural position, ovate-reniform in outline when 
forcibly expanded, deeply cordate at base, subtrilobed 
toward the apex, more or less retuse and apiculate at the 
truncate apex, 4.5-6 mm. long from a basal auricle to the 
upex, 6-7.6 mm. wide when expanded, with the rounded 
anterior sides lobulate or crenate; disc bicallose at base. 
Column very short and stout, 3.8-4.9 mm. long, trun- 
‘ate at the apex. 
Kipidendrum capitellatum seems to have no near allies. 
The specific name is in allusion to the capitate inflores- 
cence, 
Hvuanuco: Cani, seven miles northeast of Mito, at about 2600 me- 
ters altitude, ‘‘in clumps in trees,’’ April 16-26, 1923, J. Francis 
Macbride 3463 (Tyrer in Herb. Field Mus. No. 534538: L[sorype in 
Herb. Ames No. 61587). 
Epidendrum carnosiflorum (. Schweinfiurth sp. 
nNOv. 
Herba epiphytica, irregulariter ramosa. Caules vaginis 
tubulatis omnino obtecti. Folia disticha, oblongo-linearia, 
minora, apiculata, basi sessili amplectentia, valde coriacea. 
Racemi ramorum apice terminales, saepissime arcuati vel 
nutantes, laxe pluriflori, rhachide leviter fractiflexa. Brac- 
teae prominentes, late patentes, concavo-conduplicatae, 
late ovatae ut videtur. Flos carnosus. Sepalum dorsale 
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