7 (1920) 127; ex Mansfeld in Fedde Repert. Beih. 57 
(1929) t. 45, nr. 171. 
EL pidendrum Filomenot Schlechter in Fedde Repert. 
Beih. 9 (1921) 88; ex Mansfeld in Fedde Repert. Beih. 
57 (1929) t. 117, nr. 461. 
This variety is separated from the species by the sessile 
or indistinctly clawed mid-lobe of the lip which varies in 
size in relation to the lateral lobes. 
Epidendrum fulgens (trom Brazil, British Guiana and 
Trinidad) has brilliant purple flowers which are a little 
larger than in typical £7. zbaguense. The petals are broad- 
ly oblong-elliptic to obovate and more or less entire; the 
lip has broadly rounded denticulate lateral lobes and a 
much smaller cuneate-retuse denticulate mid-lobe. Its 
proportions appear to be variable. 
Lipidendrum Schomburghu var. confluens is a combina- 
tion made by Lindley to represent J. fulegens Brongn. 
which he thought to be a variant of E. Schomburghw. 
Being the first varietal designation of this alliance, the 
epithet must be conserved. 
The type of Lpidendrum calanthum was described from 
only the upper part of a plant consisting of two more or 
less branched inflorescences with their flowers. In the 
sketch of this concept from the Reichenbach Herbarium 
in Vienna, the sepals and petals, which are described as 
oblong and acute, appear to be closely similar to those 
of EB. tbaguense. The sessile mid-lobe of the lip is ob- 
cordate and seems to be at least equally large with the 
lateral lobes. No notes of color are cited. Originally de- 
scribed from Peru, this concept occurs on the island of 
Guadeloupe and in Colombia. The latter collection (Leh- 
mann S177) differs from the type in having elliptic or 
oblong-elliptic petals and a prominently arcuate column. 
The Peruvian Mpidendrum paytense, exemplified in 
the Ames Herbarium by several drawings from the 
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