3- or 4-nerved. Petals narrowly cuneate-oblanceolate, 
10.5 mm. long, 2.8 mm. wide above, obtuse, 1-nerved. 
Lip adnate to the column nearly to its apex; lamina 
ovate-quadrate in outline, deeply cordate at the base, sim- 
ple or obscurely 8-lobed (lightly indented in the middle 
of each side), lightly retuse-apiculate in the middle of the 
truncate apex or shallowly bilobulate, irregularly crenate- 
dentate on each side especially in the 
middle, 7.8 mm. in greatest length 
and 9 mm. in greatest width near the 
base; disc with a pair of large fleshy 
complanate-ellipsoid calli at the base 
und with three to tive fleshy ridges 
in front, the central ridge extending 
nearly to the apex. Column short, 
stout, strongly dilated upward in 
front, about 6.4 mm. long on the — toides,fower expand- 
dorsal surface, crenate-dentate at the — ¢d, ene and one half 
times natural size. 
truncate apex. 
HMpidendrum refractoides seems to be closely allied to 
the Venezuelan £7. refractum Lindl., but differs in hav- 
ing paniculate inflorescences of smaller flowers with nar- 
row petals and an indistinctly 8-lobed lip. 
Hvuantco: Cani, seven miles northeast of Mito, at about 2600 me- 
ters altitude, ‘‘on tree branch in dense stream-wood,’’ April 16-26, 
1923, J. Francis Macbride 3391 (Tyrerin Herb. Field Mus. No. 584461; 
Isoryver in Herb. Ames No. 61559). 
Epidendrum Schlechterianum 4 es var. longi- 
repens (©. Schweinfurth var. nov. 
Herba parva, rhizomate longo distincto et foliis mini- 
mis et petalis latioribus a specie differt. 
Plant small, with a long creeping flexuous rhizome 
formed by short successive connectives between the ab- 
breviated stems, producing numerous fibrous adventi- 
tious roots. Stems very short, entirely concealed by the 
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