gin; mid-lobe much larger, narrowly triangular, acumi- 
nate to a subacute apex, very fleshy, concave below. 
Column very short and stout, about 3.8 mm. long at the 
back, extended on each side into a very oblique tooth. 
Lipidendrum carnosifiorum has apparently as its nearest 
aly the Central American 7. anoglossoides A. & S., but 
differs in having laxer racemes, broader sepals, a sharply 
83-lobed lip, etc. Its lip recalls that of 2. erammatoglos- 
sum Reichb. ft. and #. Pavonianum Reichb. t., but it is 
vegetatively very different from those species. 
Junin: Pichis Trail, Enefas, at 1700 meters altitude, epiphyte in 
open sphagnum swamp, July 1, 1929, E.P. Killip & 4.C.Smith 25705 
(Tyre in U.S. Nat. Herb. No. 1359825). 
Epidendrum elatum (. Schweinfurth sp. nov. 
Herba magna, robusta, elata. Caulis crassus, Cum ramis 
oppositifoliis, vaginis tubulari-cylindraceis omnino obtec- 
tus. Folia disticha, ovato- vel oblongo- vel elliptico-lanceo- 
lata, apice obtusa vel rotundata, basi amplectentia. Race- 
mu terminales, arcuati vel nutantes, usque ad basim dense 
multiflori, Ovarium pedicellatum elongatum, bracteam 
lineari-lanceolatam multo superans. Flores mediocres, 
virides, carnosi. Sepalum dorsale oblanceolato-oblongum, 
obtusum, apice dorso incrassatum. Sepala lateralia ob- 
liquissime oblongo-oblanceolata, acuta, apice dorso multo 
incrassata. Petala oblique spathulato-linearia, obtusa vel 
truncata. Labellum columnae valde adnatum,; lamina 
profunde trilobata; lobi laterales parvi, patentes, dolabri- 
formes vel rotundato-ovati: lobus medius multo major, 
subquadrato-ovatus, apiculatus; discus basi bicallosus et 
lineis tribus antice ornatus. Columna generis. 
Plant robust (ower part lacking in my specimen), 3 
m. high according to the collector’s notes. Stem stout, 
up to lem. in diameter, with a short branch opposite 
rach leat, entirely concealed by tubular-cylindric minute- 
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