and 1.8 cm. wide. Inflorescence terminal, shortly pe- 
duncled, recurved, loosely paniculate with three sub- 
parallel branches which are subdensely many-flowered. 
Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, ascending, apparent- 
ly much shorter than the slender pedicellate ovary. The 
only flower which is distinctly shown reveals an oblong, 
acute dorsal sepal about 8.5 mm. long and an apparently 
shorter lateral sepal which is obliquely oblong-obovate, 
acute and basally adnate to the column. A suggestion 
of a cuneate-spatulate petal is indicated, but no distinct 
outline of the lip is shown. 
The Ecuadorian Epidendrum loxense, of which L have 
seen a specimen of the type number, has pustulose leaf- 
sheaths, but differs from 7. scabrum in having smaller 
ovate leaves up to 2.4 ¢m. long and 1.8 em. wide at in- 
tervals of 1.5 cm. or less. The inflorescence, which is 
either racemose or paniculate, has flowers with an oblong- 
elliptic dorsal sepal about 8.9 mm. long and obliquely 
oblong-obovate lateral sepals that seem to be exactly sim- 
ilar to the one shown in the photograph of 27. scabrum. 
The petals when flattened out are cuneate-spatulate. The 
lamina of the lip has obliquely rounded lateral lobes and 
a larger subquadrate mid-lobe with a truncate apex which 
is shghtly retuse and apiculate. In outline this latter 
organ might well be called cruciform. 
The Peruvian LMpidendrum cardiophyllum, which is 
represented in the Ames Herbarium by a photograph of 
the type, has scrabrous leaf-sheaths and ovate leaves up 
to 4 em. long and 1.85 cm. wide, at intervals of about 
2.5 cm. The paniculate inflorescence shows flowers with 
sepals similar to those of 2. dowense and about 8 mm. 
long. The petals appear to be linear-spatulate. The lip 
is described as having orbicular lateral lobes and a sub- 
equally large mid-lobe which is broadly oblong and 
retuse-apiculate. 
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