rane 
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BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
VoL. 11, No. 8 
Cam 
BRIDGE, MassacuusetTts, JuLy 12, 1944 
NOTES ON 
TROPICAL AMERICAN ORCHIDS II 
BY 
CHARLES SCHWEINFURTH 
IN THE COURSE of investigations on the orchids of 
Peru, the following reductions, discussions, amplifications 
and nomenclatorial notes were found to be advisable. 
Gomphichis plantaginifolia C. Schweinfurth nom. 
nov. 
Stenoptera plantaginea Schlechter in Fedde Repert. 
10 (1912) 446; ex Mansfeld in Fedde Repert. Beith. 
58 (1930) t. 18, nr. 50. 
Gomphichis (as Gomphiches) plantaginea Schlechter in 
Fedde Repert. Beih. 10 (1922) 60, non G. plantaginea 
Schlechter in Fedde Repert. Beih. 9 (1921) 50. 
Since the epithet, plantaginea, is illegitimate as it had 
already been used in the genus Gomphichis at the time 
when Stenoptera plantaginea was referred to that genus, 
the above new name is proposed. 
This species, which was originally described from Bo- 
livian material, now appears to be frequent in Peru, 
where it occurs in the Departments of Ayacucho, Cuzco 
and Puno. 
Gomphichis plantaginifolia differs from the Peruvian 
G. plantaginea in having avery densely flowered raceme 
and flowers with much narrower petals and dissimilar lip. 
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