sepal ovate-elliptic, obtuse with a minute dorsal mucro, 
concave, 5-nerved, about 15 mm. long and 9.5 mm. wide. 
Lateral sepals obliquely oblong-ovate, obtuse or suba- 
cute, navicular, dorsally carinate, 5-nerved, about 17 min. 
long and 10 mm. wide. Petals linear, about 16 mm. long 
and 1 mm. wide, obtuse, prominently 1-nerved or indis- 
tinctly 8-nerved. Lip adnate to the column nearly to its 
apex; lamina simple, suborbicular, conspicuously emar- 
ginate, about 22 mm. long (at the longest part) and 26 
mm. wide, broadly cuneate at the base, with a pair of 
short widely separated fleshy keels below. Column very 
short and stout, broadly conical when viewed from the 
side, about 9 mm. long measured on the dorsal surtace. 
Pollinia tour, strongly complanate, obliquely ellipsoid. 
gpidendrum orbiculatum is allied to. Scutella Lindl., 
but has much narrower petals and prominently retuse lip. 
Cuzco: Prov. Calea, Lares Valley above Mantoc, at 2400-2500 me- 
ters altitude, on rocks, flowers greenish or greenish brown, March 8, 
1929, A. Weberbauer 7904 (Tver in Herb. Field Mus. No. 605234; 
Isorvee in Herb. Ames No, 61545). 
Epidendrum paniculatum Ruiz & Pav. var. lin- 
earifolium (Cogn.) C. Schweinfurth comb. nov. 
Epidendrum parviflorum Ruiz & Pavon Syst. Veg. 
(1798) 245. 
vpidendrum gratiosum Reichenbach filius in Bonpl. 4 
(1856) 215—Cogniaux in Mart. FI. Bras. 3, pt. 5 
(1898) 165. 
Epidendrum gratiosum Reichb.f. var. linearifolium 
Cogniaux in Mart. Fl. Bras. 8, pt. 5 (1898) 166. 
Eipidendrum patulipetalum Schlechter in Fedde Re- 
pert. Beihefte 9 (1921) 91; ex Mansfeld in Beihette 
57 (1929) t. 120, nr. 472. 
An examination of what is undoubtedly isotype ma- 
terial of L’pidendrum parviflorum trom the Madrid Her- 
barium shows that this concept cannot reasonably be 
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