The lip has a form very similar to that represented for 
the lip of 2. calanthum. Among several Peruvian spec- 
imens referable to this form, one plant is over 69 cm. 
high (stem incomplete) with broadly elliptic-oblong 
leaves up to 8 em. long and 2.75 em. wide. Other col- 
lections have small ovate or narrow lanceolate-oblong 
leaves. In some cases, the lamina of the lip appears to 
be irregularly deep-lacerate or lacerate on one side and 
lobed on the other, rather than distinctly 8-lobed. 
Epidendrum ibaguense HBA. var. Schomburg- 
ku (Lindl.) C. Schweinfurth var. nov. 
Epidendrum Schomburghu WLindley in Bot. Reg. 24 
(1888) Misc. p. 15, no. 16 & t. 58; Fol. Orch. Epi- 
dendrum (18538) p. 70, no. 219—Cogniaux in Mar- 
tius Fl. Bras. 8, pt. 5 (1898) 120. 
Epidendrum fulgens Focke in Tijdschr. Nat. Weten- 
sch. 4 (1851) 66, non LE. fulgens Brongn. 
Epidendrum splendens Schlechter in Fedde Repert. 
Beih. 9 (1921) 98; ex Mansfeld in Fedde Repert. Beih. 
Op (1929 a. TA), nr -A75, 
This variety differs from the species in the prominently 
acute or apiculate termination of the mid-lobe of the lip 
and in the acuminate or subacuminate sepals and petals. 
The flowers are commonly distinctly larger than in the 
other forms of this variable group. 
A flower preserved on the type sheet of Mpidendrum 
Schomburghu in the Lindley Herbarium shows sepals 
and petals which are strongly acuminate and a mid-lobe 
of the lip which is acute or apiculate (described as tri- 
angular at the apex). The flowers appear to be somewhat 
larger than those of typical £7. chaguense and they show 
considerable variation in size. The color of the flowers 
is said to be scarlet or vermilion. 
The Peruvian Epidendrum splendens appears to differ 
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